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Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

By : Ved Antani
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Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

By: Ved Antani

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has transformed the way that we write and deploy enterprise software. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c has been designed to work with the cloud platform and reduce downtime, while improving performance and productivity. You can quickly set up, manage, and support enterprise clouds. This practical, example-oriented guide untangles many of the complexities involved in setting up a complete cloud computing platform. This book explores several methods of setting up IaaS and DBaaS using Oracle's Enterprise Manager. Step-by-step, this guide will quickly familiarize you with the most important aspects of setting up a cloud platform. This book delves deep into the complexities surrounding cloud computing and comprehensively explores the approach that you need to take to build an effective infrastructure. You will start with a step-by-step approach to building an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and take an in-depth view of building a Database as a Service (DBaaS) model of cloud computing. Following on from this, you will learn how the chargeback mechanism works and how it can be configured for your needs. Next, you will also learn how to use a programmable interface to manage your cloud via APIs and web services. This guide will walk you through the various components of Oracle Enterprise Manager and will teach you how to use them efficiently. This book will also explain how you can use cloud APIs to program your cloud.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Monitoring concepts


As we discussed, Oracle Enterprise Manager comes with a very comprehensive set of metrics that can monitor health and performance of your application servers, databases, Oracle VM Manager hosts, storage, and other components that constitute the cloud environment.

You can monitor several different types of events for these components. Usually you would be interested in monitoring an exceptional event or violation of a particular parameter for a component's performance. Oracle Enterprise Manager has a set of predefined thresholds to easily set up boundaries that will raise events when breached. There are two levels of severity for the alerts raised due to such anomalies:

  • Warning: While the threshold is breached, the component is still functional.

  • Critical: A critical threshold is breached and the component is either not functional or very near to a failure state. These types of events will require immediate preventive action.

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