Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 -- Table of Contents -- Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- Complexities in modern applications -- Middleware administrator - a man with several hats -- Key challenges faced by administrators -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Enterprise Manager Grid Control -- Key features of Enterprise Manager Grid Control -- Comprehensive view of the data center -- Performance data -- Configuration data -- Status of scheduled operations -- Inventory -- Unmanned monitoring -- Historical data analysis -- Configuration management -- Managing multiple entities as one -- Service level management -- Scheduling -- Automating provisioning -- Information publishing -- Synthetic transaction -- Manage from anywhere -- Enterprise Manager product family -- Products managed by Enterprise Manager -- Enterprise Manager Architecture -- Target -- Oracle Management Service (OMS) -- Oracle Management Agent (OMA) -- Oracle Management Repository (OMR) -- Enterprise Manager Console -- Enterprise Manager High Availability -- Summary -- 2. Installing Enterprise Manager Grid Control -- Installation procedure -- Pre-requisite -- Operating system requirements -- Downloading the software -- Installing OMS and repository -- Installing Grid Control 10gR1 or 10gR2 -- Upgrading to Grid Control 10gR5 -- Installing Management Agent -- Starting and stopping Grid Control -- Starting and stopping OMS -- Starting and stopping the repository database -- Starting and stopping the Agent -- Summary -- 3. Enterprise Manager Key Concepts and Subsystems -- Target -- Target definition -- Target lifecycle.

Discovery of a target -- Configuration for monitoring -- Updates to a target -- Stopping monitoring of a target -- Monitoring -- Fetchlets -- Metrics definition -- Metric collection and aggregation -- Metric alerts -- Monitoring templates -- Configuration management -- Policy -- Configuration snapshot -- Job -- Notification system -- Provisioning -- Deployment procedures -- Software library -- Service Level Management -- Information publishing -- Report definition -- Report element -- Summary -- 4. Managing Oracle WebLogic Server -- Introducing WebLogic Server -- Supported versions -- Discovering WebLogic Server -- Adding a new WebLogic Server Domain -- Monitoring WebLogic Server -- Availability and state -- Performance monitoring -- Event notifications and setting metric thresholds -- Setting up notification methods -- Setting up e-mail preferences for admin user -- Setting the notification rules -- Jobs and corrective action -- Corrective action job -- Configuration management -- Asset tracking -- Policy management -- Enforcing a custom policy -- Service level management -- Creating a system -- Creating a service -- Role based access control -- Creating an EM user and assign targets -- Summary -- 5. Managing Oracle Application Server -- Discovery and Target Model -- Tasks for Oracle Applications Server Administrator -- Provisioning -- How to use this feature -- Monitoring -- Monitoring availability -- How to use this feature -- Monitoring performance -- How to use this feature -- Applications performance monitoring -- Monitoring of Application Infrastructure -- How to use this feature -- Monitoring end-user experience -- How to use this feature -- Thresholds and notifications for metrics -- How to use this feature -- Configuration management -- Configuration change tracking -- How to use this feature -- Configuration compliance.

How to use this feature -- Configuration comparison -- How to use this feature -- Patching -- How to use the feature -- Summary -- 6. Managing Forms and Reports Services and Applications -- Architecture of Oracle Forms and Reports Services -- Monitoring of Oracle Forms and Reports Services -- Discovery of Oracle Forms and Reports Server -- Managing Forms Server -- Setting the metric thresholds -- Managing Reports Server -- Setting the metric thresholds -- Monitoring Forms applications -- Configure your Windows client -- Configure SSL certificate -- Creating a Forms System -- Creating Forms application -- Forms and Reports provisioning -- Summary -- 7. SOA Management - BPEL Management -- Introducing BPEL Process Manager -- Supported versions -- Discovery of BPEL Process Manager -- BPEL Process Manager running on OC4J -- Monitoring configuration -- Agent configuration -- BPEL Process Manager running on WebLogic -- Monitoring Configuration -- BPEL Process Manager running on WebSphere -- Monitoring BPEL PM and BPEL processes -- Monitoring BPEL PM -- Monitoring BPEL Processes -- BPEL process metrics -- Monitoring model for BPEL processes -- Configuration management -- Lifecycle Management for BPEL PM -- BPEL suitcase deployment -- Provisioning and patching of BPEL PM -- Best practices for BPEL PM management and monitoring -- Summary -- 8. SOA Management - OSB (aka ALSB) Management -- Introducing Oracle Service Bus (OSB) -- OSB constructs -- Proxy service -- Business service -- Message flow -- Supported versions -- Discovery of Oracle Service Bus -- Monitoring OSB and OSB services -- Monitoring OSB -- Monitoring OSB services -- Monitoring proxy services -- Monitoring business services -- Configuration management for Oracle Service Bus -- Lifecycle management for Oracle Service Bus -- How to use this feature -- OSB best practices -- Summary.

9. Managing Identity Manager Suite -- Oracle Identity Management targets -- Discovery of Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite -- Discovery of Access Manager -- Access Server -- Discovery of Identity Server -- Identity Manager Server -- Identity Federation Server -- Monitoring Identity and Access Management Suite -- Service level management -- Configuration management -- Summary -- 10. Managing Coherence Cluster -- Coherence overview -- Discovery of the Coherence cluster -- Starting Coherence management node using bulk management Mbeans -- The Coherence Target Model -- Discovering Oracle Coherence -- Monitoring of Coherence cluster -- Setting up the metric threshold -- Monitoring Coherence node -- Monitoring Coherence cache -- Monitoring connections and connections managers -- Comparing and propagating changes -- Provisioning the Coherence cluster -- Summary -- 11. Managing Non-Oracle Middleware -- Non-Oracle middleware support -- Managing open source middleware -- Managing Apache HTTP Server -- Managing Apache Tomcat -- Installing the Tomcat plug-in -- Discovering Tomcat Server -- Managing JBoss Application Server -- Managing IBM middleware -- Managing IBM WebSphere Application Server -- Managing IBM WebSphere MQ -- Best practices for managing non-Oracle Java middleware -- Managing Microsoft Middleware -- Installing Plug-ins -- Discovery of Microsoft middleware -- Monitoring Microsoft middleware -- Service Level Monitoring for third-party targets -- Summary -- 12. Java and Composite Applications Monitoring and Diagnostics -- Composite Application Monitor and Modeler -- Supported products -- CAMM architecture -- Installation and configuration -- Monitoring and diagnosing Composite Applications with CAMM -- Application Diagnostics for Java (AD4J) -- AD4J Architecture -- Installation and configuration -- Starting up AD4J Console.

Diagnosing Java applications -- Diagnosing application hangs -- Tracing a thread -- Cross-tier diagnostics -- Detecting and analyzing memory leaks -- Summary -- 13. Building Your Monitoring Plug-in -- Introducing Sun Java Web Server -- How plug-ins work -- Plug-in artefacts -- Management Plug-in Archive (MPA) -- Plug-in deployment -- Monitoring targets using a plug-in -- Exercise - monitor Sun Java Web Server -- Pre-requisites -- Exercise steps -- Setup on agent side -- Configuration from Enterprise Manager Console -- Exercise summary -- Overview of artefacts used for monitoring of Sun Java Web Server -- Target definition -- Target metrics -- Target artefacts -- Target metadata -- Top section -- Metric section -- Properties section -- Target collection -- Collection schedule -- Metric thresholds & operators -- Packaging and deploying a plug-in -- Packaging -- Deploying -- Advance features for plug-ins -- Charts -- Other advanced features -- Summary -- 14. Best Practices for Managing Middleware Components Using Enterprise Manager -- Provisioning -- Creating gold images -- Use software library as central repository -- Define deployment procedures for all provisioning activities -- Routine monitoring -- Select monitoring indicators and define acceptable limits -- Use monitoring templates -- Setup notification rules -- Manage many-as-one -- Defining Service Level Agreements (SLA) -- Define service tests -- Configuration management -- Save configuration snapshots -- Use configuration comparison -- Configuration compliance -- Lifecycle management -- Using the Critical Patch advisory -- Using deployment procedures for patching -- Use the job system library -- Using the multi-tasking jobs -- Information publishing -- Using reports for information publishing -- Use database views for publishing information -- Summary -- Index.