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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

Discovery of BPEL Process Manager


BPEL PM can run on top of OC4J,WebLogic, or WebSphere J2EE containers. The discovery process is different for BPEL PM on different J2EE containers.

BPEL Process Manager running on OC4J

We learned in Chapter 5,Managing Oracle Application Server, that Oracle Application Server and components of Oracle Application Server like OC4J are automatically discovered as part of agent installation. In case Application Server is installed after the agent installation, you will need to discover application server by triggering the discovery process from the console.

BPEL PM on OC4J also gets discovered as part of an application server and OC4J discovery. In case the BPEL PM is added to an already discovered Application server, you will need to re-discover the Application Server. You can re-discovery an application server by starting the discovery process again on that host. You may want to quickly revisit the discovery section for application server in Chapter 5,Managing...