Managing the Oracle Application Server with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

Valerie K. Kane Lars Ewe Oracle Corporation

Agenda  Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g  Application Server Control  Grid Control

Oracle Application Server Web ServicesOHS Integration Portal Web Cache SSOWireless J2EE Complete Management of the Platform Lowers Costs: Learning, Deployment, Integration Exhaustive individual component management: Admin Monitoring Provisioning 1 Integrated Management of Oracle Products 3 Integrated Platform Management 2 Management for Oracle Eco-System 4 Other Applications Oracle Collab Suite Oracle eBiz Suite Oracle DB End Users

Manage from Anywhere Enterprise Manager Topology Portals HTTP/S Application Server Control 1 HTTP/S Application Server Control 2 HTTP/S Grid Control Management Repository HTTP/S Firewall Mobile Device Management Service Thin JDBC

Application Server Control Available out-of-box with every install HTML Console Complete Suite Administration J2EE, Web Services, Portal, Forms, Reports, Integration, BI, LDAP Real-time Monitoring Metrics pre-instrumented Host monitoring included

Enterprise Manager Grid Control  Consolidated management and monitoring of entire enterprise  Out-of-box monitoring and alert notification  Historical collections for trend analysis  Group management  Automated job system  Application Service Level Management  Configuration Management  Drilldown to Application Server Control Consoles

Features: Application Server Control

 Application Server Home Page  Component Management  Topology View  Deploying and Maintaining J2EE Applications  Port Management  Changing Infrastructure Services  Accessing Diagnostic Logs

Application Server Home Page  Consolidated, at-a-glance view of Application Server information  Single point for administration of all components – Start, stop, or restart services – Enable or disable application server components – Modify server configurations – Deploy and monitor J2EE applications – Manage ports

Application Server Home Page

Topology View Graphical representation of Application Server topology Real-time view of processes managed by OPMN Perform common administrative tasks from topology view

Topology View

Deploying & Maintaining J2EE Apps Intuitive deployment Wizard Consolidated view of deployed J2EE applications – Per OC4J instance – Across all OC4J instances Un-deploy or re-deploy an application Configure Java Messaging Services for J2EE applications Configure and monitor Message Driven Beans

Deploying & Maintaining J2EE Apps

Port Management  View port ranges and ports in use across all components  Configure ports from central location – Access port dependency info via online help and documentation

Port Management

Accessing Diagnostic Logs  Log Viewer – Access all application server log files from single location  Log Loader – Automatically load log file data into repository for easier investigation – Enables cross-correlation queries

Accessing Diagnostic Logs

Features: Grid Control

 Application Server Discovery  Application Server Home Page  Out-of-box Monitoring  Historical Collections & Analysis  Consolidated Group Management  J2EE Application Diagnostics  Application Service Level Management  Configuration Management

Application Server Home Page  Consolidated, at-a-glance view of Application Server information  Single point for monitoring all components – Availability – Resource usage – Alerts – Diagnostics

Application Server Home Page

Out-of-Box Monitoring  Monitor Application Server level as well as component level  Automatic performance and availability monitoring with Oracle recommended settings  Out-of-box notifications for critical alerts  Summary view for rapid problem identification

Out-of-Box Monitoring

Historical Collections & Trending  Performance and availability data automatically collected  Data stored in Management Repository  Analyze performance and availability data over time – Diagnose past problems as they occurred – Look for trends

Historical Collections & Trending

J2EE Application Diagnostics  Flexible “top” diagnostic reports – Top Applications – Top Servlets – Top EJBs  Based on real-time or historical data

J2EE Application Diagnostics

Oracle Eco-System Application Service Level Management Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Notifications Root Cause Analysis Alerts Trending Analysis Performance Management Transaction Performance End-User Performance Application Service Level Management SLA Management Non-Oracle Systems Impact Analysis Root Cause Diagnostics Cross-Tier Tracing Availability Management Application System End-to-End Performance Management

Availability Management Web Application Trade Stocks Place Bid Can users complete critical transactions successfully from all user communities? Send Internal Application

Availability Management Model End-User Communities Web Application Availability and Performance may vary from location to location

Performance Management Business Transaction Monitoring  Monitor critical online business processes  Scope and quantify impact of performance problems on all user communities  Isolate network vs server related delays  Transaction profiling  Alerts and notifications Web Application internet

Application Service Level Mgmt

Performance Management End-User Performance  Monitoring of ALL URLs accessed by ALL users  URL response times  View performance by:  Domain  Region  Visitor  Web Server  Web server load and response distribution  End-User Performance Analysis  Understand impact of problems on end users  Identify page performance bottlenecks  Watch list to highlight performance of critical URLs Web Application

Application Service Level Mgmt

Root Cause Diagnostics Interactive Transaction Tracing  On-demand diagnosis of problems across tiers of J2EE Web application  Intuitive drill-downs of all invocation paths to the SQL level internet Middle Tier URL/JSPEJBJDBC/SQLNetwork

Application Service Level Mgmt

Configuration Management  Automatically collect and store system data – OS registered software – Hardware resources – Patch levels – Dependencies  Report on, query and analyze collected data  Centralized patch management  Clone Application Server Oracle homes  Policy management

Configuration Management

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