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Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

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Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

Overview of this book

Today's IT environment is very complex, encompassing a myriad of technologies and middleware platforms. Many organizations have large and heterogeneous middleware platforms that power their enterprise applications and it is often a real challenge for administrators to meet agreed service levels and minimize downtime. Oracle Enterprise Manager allows administrators to manage the complete lifecycle of an entire application infrastructure for middleware and SOA applications. This book will help you kick-start the setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and master all aspects of middleware management supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager. This book, written by senior members of the Oracle team serves as the only hands on guide to provisioning middleware and implementing proactive monitoring to maximize application performance and compliance using Oracle Enterprise Manager. The book starts with an introduction to the challenges faced by middleware administrators in their everyday life, and how Oracle Enterprise Manager helps solve those challenges. This book will help you manage your middleware infrastructure and applications effectively and efficiently using Oracle Enterprise Manager. By following the practical examples in this book you will learn to proactively monitor your production middleware applications running on Oracle Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA suite (such as Oracle BPEL Process manager), Oracle Server Bus, and Oracle Coherence. You will also learn different aspects to proactive monitoring and alert notifications, service level and incident management, diagnostics for production applications, lifecycle automation using out-of-the-box deployment procedures, and patching mechanisms. This book also helps you to master best practices for managing your middleware and SOA applications for optimal service performance and reduced down time.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Information publishing


There is lot of useful data stored in the enterprise repository; the information-publishing system provides a means to publish this data in various useful formats. Report is a construct that is used for publishing data from the Enterprise Management repository.

Enterprise Manager provides a lot of out-of-the-box reports, that the user can customize or use as-is. For example, a report on all policy violations, or a report on all metric alerts, or a report on all configuration changes. Besides these reports, the user can create new reports through the Enterprise Manager console.

We will now learn about the major building blocks for Information Publishing System.

Report definition

Report definition contains details like what data should be shown, how to get that data, layout of the report, parameters for the report, and at what frequency the report should be generated. For example, a particular report provides details about the performance of a BPEL process, the data...