Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Course

Practical implementation of the ITIL goals of service management, change management and configuration management is possible with the Oracle state-of-the-art "Grid Control" product.

This course teaches how to deploy Oracle Enterprise Manager and effectively use the tool to administer and monitor the Oracle Database and Operating System. During this class, participants learn the Oracle Enterprise Manager architecture, setup the console, use a variety of integrated applications, learn about reports, implement job- and event-based system management. This enables participants to administer and monitor the Oracle platform from a single, integrated, GUI, and easy-to-use console. Standalone, three-tier, and browser-based configurations are discussed in this course.

This course is designed for Oracle database administrators, technical support administrators, technical project managers, enterprise systems analysts, and web server and application server administrators.

This course provides training in use of the centralized administration environment of the Oracle Grid Control. Using this interface, one can administer and monitor objects throughout the enterprise data center, including Oracle and non-Oracle databases, application servers, web servers and enterprise application suites, such as the Oracle e-Business Applications Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise. Specifically, within this course one will find in-depth training, lectures and hands-on workshops for the following topics:

> Explore the capabilities of grid computing and how the Grid Control can centralized all administration and monitoring of data centers throughout the enterprise.
> Integrating Linux, UNIX and MS Windows hosts into the Grid Control framework, as well as database instances, application server instances and related components.
> Understand the unique self-monitoring nature of the Grid Control.
> Customize and troubleshoot Grid Control and target configurations.
> Define administrator credentials and build a security scheme for access to the Grid
> Control console.
> Learn how management plug-ins and connectors may be used to extend the administration reach of Grid Control to numerous other components, such as the databases IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server, middleware technologies such as Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Active Directory, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and open source JBoss, and specialized technologies such as EMC Celerra Server, Microsoft Operations Manager, Remedy Helpdesk and others.
> Use the Job subsystem and Information Publisher reports to maintain and monitor targets throughout the enterprise.

Understanding The Grid Control Architecture
About The Oracle Grid Computing Architecture
Launching The Grid Control Console

Deploying Grid Control
Launch The Installation
Existing Database Installation Type
New Database Installation Type

Deploying The Oracle Management Agent
Installing The Management Agent
Agent Utilities

Monitoring The Grid Control
The Self-Monitoring Architecture
Monitoring The Components
Component Administration Utilities
Managing The Oms Repository

Configuring The Grid Control
About The Grid Control Console Configuration
Enterprise Manager Credentials
Defining Preferred Target Credentials
Management Pack Access

Managed Targets: Host System
Monitoring Host Availability & Resource Usage
Administering The Host Server

Managed Targets: Oracle Database
About The Databases Summary
Configuring The Database For Grid Control
Administering The Database
Registering An Rman Catalog Within Oms
Administering The Database Listener

Managed Targets: Oracle Application Server
Understanding The As Architecture
Monitoring A Middle Tier Instance
Monitoring An Infrastructure Instance
Monitoring Java Applications
Consolidating Instances Into Farms
Configuring Backup & Recovery Settings
Oracle Applications Management

Monitoring The Data Center Using Metrics & Alerts
Metrics & Alert Thresholds
Managing Metrics
Using Metric Baselines & Snapshots
Monitoring Alerts
Administering The Metric & Alert Framework Groups
Managing & Monitoring Groups
Defining Groups
Using Groups In Notification Rules
About Redundancy Groups

Systems & Services
Defining Systems
Defining Services
Monitoring Service Performance
Modifying Service Definitions
Performing Root Cause Analysis Of Failures
Web Applications Monitoring

Using The Job Subsystem
About The Job Architecture
Creating & Managing Jobs
Viewing Job Activity & Job Notification

Configuration Management
Understanding Deployments
Understanding Configurations
Comparing Configurations
Client System Analyzer

Deployments Patching & Compliance
Software Patching
Deployment Compliance

Information Publisher
Viewing Reports
Creating Custom Reports

Mandatory prerequisites for this course are the following courses are either of the following courses. Ideally one should have familiarity with both database and application server administration:
• Oracle Database 10g: Administration I Or
• Oracle Application Server 10g: Administration I