With the 10.2.0.5 (or 10gR5) release, Grid Control introduced new functionality for managing the Oracle Service Bus (OSB), formerly known as the AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB). Grid Control had heterogeneous application server support even prior to 10.2.0.5. Specifically, Grid Control had monitoring functionality for the WebLogic Server (WLS), going back to version 7.x. The introduction of OSB management complemented the WLS management functionality and helped strengthen Grid Control's middleware management offering to a considerable extent.
In the 10.2.0.5 release, Grid Control provided several features for OSB management such as discovering the OSB components, monitoring the OSB proxy and business services, monitoring the extended WebLogic and underlying infrastructure, deployment automation, configuration management, and service-level management.
This chapter talks about the discovery of the WebLogic Server and the OSB instance. Discovery...