Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control – key features part a
The article will provide a user with information and guidance on Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control. The key concepts of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid control will be explained.
The key features of Enterprise Manager Grid Control are provided below:
o Comprehensive view of data center
o Unmanned monitoring
o Historical data analysis
o Configuration management
o Managing multiple entities as one
o Service level management
o Scheduling
o Automating provisioning
o Information publishing
o Synthetic transaction
o Manage from anywhere
Let’s have a look at key features of Enterprise Manager Grid control.
Enterprise Manager Grid Control is used for monitoring and managing products in the data centre.
• Enterprise Manager Grid provides a management interface which can be used to manage an HTTP server, J2EE server and a database
• Enterprise Manager provides an interface for different administrations tasks. Some of these tasks include patching, configuration compliance, back-up recovery, etc. In addition to basic monitoring, Enterprise Manager provides a unified interface for many other administration tasks like patching, configuration compliance, backup-recovery, and so on.
Comprehensive view of the data centre
By providing a comprehensive view of the data centre, it provides an opportunity to an administrator to view all the applications, servers, databases, network devices, storage devices, and so on, along with performance and configuration data. The Enterprise also provides a user with information on the resources that require urgent attention and also information for the resources that are likely to require urgent attention.
If a user views data center then he/she will be able to view entities that are monitored, entities that are up and down and also entities that have performance alerts. This will provide an opportunity to a user to drill down to fine views from the top-level view.
The data in the top-level can be split into the categories as mentioned below:
Performance data
The performance data can provide a user with information on how an IT resources is performing. This can include the current status, performance indicators. It can also cover any violation of the performance thresholds.
Configuration data
The configuration data can provide a user with information on changes in configuration and it will also include violation of configuration conformance. The configuration data includes the configuration parameters and configuration files captured from an IT resource.
An example will make this easy to understand. If a policy says that only a certain port should be open on some servers, Enterprise Manager captures any violation of that policy.
Status of scheduled operations
Enterprise manager provides a user with an opportunity to view the status of the scheduled operations. The scheduled operations can include system administration task (i.e, taking a backup of a database server or some batch process that moves data across systems).
Inventory
Enterprise Manager provides a user with listing of all hardware and software resources with details like version numbers. It also captures the finer details of software resources.
If a user has read this article then he/she would have learnt about Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid control and also some of the key features of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.
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