Oracle Grid Control 10g Release 5 Installation/Agents/Operations

What you will learn:

• Discuss the new features of Enterprise Manager 10.2.0.5
• Discuss the new features of Grid Control framework 10.2.0.5
• Discuss the enhancements in Grid Control to manage Oracle Database 11g
• Discuss the new targets managed by Grid Control

Who you will learn from:

• A former contract Oracle instructor who has taught Data Guard
• An Oracle certified DBA with 10 years experirence including several years of Performance Tuning

Why attend this class:

• Affordable price
• Experienced instructor
• Presented similar to Oracle Edcuation class format
• Maximum of 10 delegates in class to allow for enhanced instructor interaction
• Learn how to solve real production problems
• Central London location
• Can be arranged to be taught at your office

** excluding VAT

Audience:

• Database Administrators
• Support Engineer
• Technical Consultant

Course Objectives:

• Manage targets such as Database 11g and Oracle WebLogic Server
• Use Deployment Procedure to patch Database
• Explain the use of Management Plug-ins and Connectors
• Explain the steps to be followed to do a fresh installation of Grid Control 10.2.0.4
• Install Management Agent
• Explain Active/Active and Active/Passive Architecture
• Setup the Grid Control after installation
• Create Administrators and Roles in Grid Control
• Manage and Administer Grid Control console
• Secure Grid Control
• Create Groups to manage targets
• Create and save reports
• Create jobs using Job System
• Use Configuration management in Grid Control
• Use Compliance management in Grid Control
• Create Services and Systems

Course Topics:

Introduction

• Understanding what comprises a Data Center
• Explaining Enterprise Manager Grid Control
• Discussing key features of Enterprise Manager Grid Control
• Discussing Management Packs available in Enterprise Manager Grid Control
• Discussing Management Plug-ins and Connectors available for Grid Control 10.2.0.4

Grid Control Architecture and Installation

• Explaining components of Grid Control
• Explaining the Architecture of Grid Control
• Explaining the various installation options
• Upgrading Grid Control to 10.2.0.4
• Explaining the Directory Structure of Grid Control
• Explaining the Grid Control Console pages and its functionalities
• Discussing Maximum Availability Architecture

Deploying the Oracle Management Agent

• Identifying the existing installation options for Oracle Management Agent
• Identifying the pre-requisites for installing Oracle Management Agent
• Discussing the Post-Installation Configuration Tasks
• Applying patchsets and upgrade Grid Control Management Agent

Setting Up Enterprise Manager Grid Control

• Creating Administrator in Grid Control
• Creating Roles in Grid Control
• Setting up Preferred Credentials
• Defining Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (emcli)

Administrating and Monitoring Grid Control

• Monitoring the availability of Grid Control components
• Monitoring the performance of Management Server, Repository, and Agent
• Identifying log and trace files for all Grid Control components
• Using the various commands to manage Grid Control components
• Discussing backup and recovery of Grid Control components

Securing Grid Control

• Describing the security options available for Oracle Management Service and Oracle Management Agent
• Authenticating Grid Control Administrators using Single Sign-On
• Configuring Grid Control for use with proxy servers and through firewalls
• Configuring Grid Control for use with Enterprise User Security
• Configuring Auditing System
• Configuring emkey

System Monitoring

• Identifying out-of-box monitoring features
• Changing metric settings
• Creating and applying Monitoring Templates
• Using notifications
• Defining Corrective Actions
• Creating notification rules
• Creating User-Defined Metrics (UDMs)
• Using blackouts

Managing Groups

• Defining groups
• Describing the usage of groups
• Creating groups
• Using dashboards to monitor groups
• Describing redundancy groups

Information Publisher

• Viewing and customizing out-of-box reports
• Creating custom reports
• Creating custom reports by using the management repository and its base views to generate a report
• Scheduling reports
• Sharing reports with the entire business community

Job Systems

• Defining Jobs
• Using Pre-defined Jobs
• Creating user defined Jobs
• Creating Multitask Jobs
• Viewing Job Activity
• Using Job Operations
• Purging Jobs
• Enabling Job Notifications

Configuration Management

• Explaining the need for Configuration Management
• Describing Configuration Management
• Viewing Configurations of managed Targets
• Comparing Configurations of managed Targets
• Viewing Configuration Summary for managed Targets
• Defining Client System Analyzer
• Defining Collection Tag Associations

Managing Compliance

• Defining Compliance Management
• Viewing Compliance Management pages in Grid Control
• Evaluating Compliance level
• Setting up Compliance Evaluations
• Customizing Policies
• Discussing types of Policy Groups
• Defining Compliance Scores

Service Management

• Defining systems and services
• Creating a service based on a system
• Defining and monitoring the availability of a service
• Discussing the use of beacons
• Defining and monitoring service levels
• Explaining Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Diagnosing Web application performance problems

Monitoring Hosts

• Performing Administrative tasks on Linux Hosts
• Viewing All Metrics for Hosts
• Executing Host Command
• Using Log File Alerts
• Using Net Service Administration
• Using Remote File Editor
• Viewing Storage Details

Managing Oracle Database

• Explaining how Grid Control can be used to manage database instances
• Describing the Database Administration features of Grid Control
• Describing the Database Maintenance features of Grid Control
• Describing the Database Performance Monitoring features of Grid Control
• Explaining how Grid Control can be used to manage database instances
• Monitoring Real Application Clusters
• Using Data Masking

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