www.it-ebooks.info Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 Monitor, diagnose, and maximize the system performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions Debu Panda Arvind Maheshwari BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 www.it-ebooks.info Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 Copyright © 2009 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. 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Gomez Ulises Lazarini Peter McLarty Acquisition Editor James Lumsden Development Editor Darshana D. Shinde Technical Editor Arani Roy Indexer Hemangini Bar i Editorial Team Leader Abhijeet Deobhakta Project Team Leader Lata Basantani Project Coordinator Srimoyee Ghoshal Proofreader Andie Scothern Graphics Nilesh R. Mohite Production Coordinator Shantanu Zagade Cover Work Shantanu Zagade This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info Foreword Middleware market is a fast growing market with a variety of vendors ranging from enterprise grade middleware products such as Oracle's Fusion Middleware to open source efforts such as JBoss and Apache Tomcat. Oracle Fusion Middleware is the number one middleware in the market with over 90,000 customers. Enterprise Manager provides an integrated management solution for Oracle Fusion Middleware. It is a complete management solution for the Oracle stack, which includes Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM, and packaged applications such as Oracle eBusiness Suite, Siebel CRM, and PeopleSoft. It also leverages the built-in management capabilities in the Oracle stack to provide an integrated and end-to-end management solution for the Oracle eco-system. In a typical datacenter, there are multiple Middleware platforms. Monitoring, application performance management, conguration management, and life cycle operations of diverse middleware platforms is very expensive. Most of the new JEE applications are composite applications built with multi-tiered architecture and hence management of such applications needs specialized tools. As Information Technology becomes the core to the success of any business, there is a greater need of business-IT alignment. This book will show you how Enterprise Manager from Oracle meets these new challenges in the data center and can help reduce the total cost of ownership as well allow IT to contribute to a greater business success. Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 was released in March 2009. This version of Enterprise manager provides management capability for Oracle and non-Oracle middleware platform that includes Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Coherence, Oracle SOA Suite, IBM Web Sphere, and JBoss Application Server, and many more. This book will help you understand how Enterprise Manager Grid Control provides for better business-IT alignment and allows IT to not just manage middleware but also manage business processes implemented using SOA architecture. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info The authors have rst-hand experience in creating, delivering and rolling-out several releases of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control. This book covers the management challenges faced by Middleware administrators in the evolving Middleware market. The book includes the authors' practical experience in adopting Enterprise Manager Grid Control in managing Oracle Fusion Middleware. It is a must read for anyone using Enterprise Manager Grid Control for managing middleware and JEE applications deployed in the data center. Ali Siddiqui, Vice President—Product Development Fusion Middleware Management, Oracle Corporation This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info About the Authors Debu Panda, lead author of the best selling EJB 3 in Action (Manning Publications), is a Product Management Director on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Management development team, where he drives development of the middleware management aspects of Oracle Enterprise Manager. He has more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry and has published more than 30 articles on enterprise Java technologies and has presented at leading technology conferences such as Oracle Open World, Java One, and so on. Debu maintains an active blog on middleware technologies at http://www.debupanda.com. I would like to thank my wife, Renuka, for her immense support and continuous encouragement and for her patience with all the late nights and weekend hours I have spent on the book in the past 9 months. I would also like to thank my kids, Nistha and Nisheet, who did not demand my attention while I wrote this book. Many thanks to Rajiv Taori, Senior Director of Product Management and Ali Siddiqui, Vice President of Oracle Application and Systems Management Products for allowing me to t this book into my busy schedule, and for their constant encouragement. Thanks to Rajiv K. Maheshwari, Rao Bethanabotla, Madhav Sathe, Nicole Haba, Rahul Goyal, Senthil Saivam, Sandeep Pandita, Ajay Jagannatha Rao and the entire Enterprise Manager Middleware Management development team at Oracle for their help while writing the book. Many thanks to James Lumsden, Srimoyee Ghoshal, Darshana Shinde, and Arani Roy, and the entire team at Packt Publishing for turning our drafts to a book! I would also like to extend my thanks to all the reviewers of the book. Finally, I would like to thank my co-author Arvind Maheshwari for his hard work and help in completing the book. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info Arvind Maheshwari, is a senior Software Development Manager for the Oracle Enterprise Manager development team, is focused on building management solutions for middleware. He has 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has played the role of Developer, Consultant, Architect, and Manager in the Financial, Manufacturing, and Telecom industries, developing enterprise solutions that are deployed in high-availability architectures. I thank my wife Seema, kids Ashutosh and Anusha, for letting me use precious family time to work on this book. I thank my management chain—Ali Siddiqui, Rajiv Maheshwari, and Rahul Goyal for supporting the idea of writing a book about Middleware management. I thank Senthil Saivam, Manish Bisarya, Rishi Saraswat, Venkatesh Audinarayan, Govinda Sambamurthy, Sandeep Pandita, Rajiv Kuriakose, Ravi Ummadi, Suresh Kotha, Anil Kumar, Priya Ulaganathan, Rajesh Vemana, and all of my colleagues for their help and support while writing the book. I thank my co-author Debu Panda—who provided guidance at every step of this project. I thank Srimoyee Ghoshal and James Lumsden at Packt Publishing for coordinating this project and ensuring that this book sees the light of day. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewers Joseph S. Gomez, has been in the IT eld for 13+ years and loves every minute of it. Originally educated as a Graphic Designer, Joe was working at an art studio (as most Graphic Designers do) when his sister mentioned that there were several local companies willing to hire people and give them paid training to prepare them for the Y2K boom. That was all that it took and Joe hasn't looked back since. Joe is now the technical lead for his employer's OLAP Center of Excellence and is currently working on the Business Intelligence team as well. In addition to enjoying his work in IT, Joe is also an author himself having co-authored the book, Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide, with his good friend Sarma Anantapantula. Ulises Lazarini, is the President of Consultoria Informatica Lazarini, and partner of Oracle with more than ten years of experience working with Oracle databases and an OCP member since Oracle 7.3.4., 8. 8i 9i, and 10g. He has been an Oracle instructor in the kernel eld for more than 12 years now. He has been a speaker on Oracle Open World. (September 2008, "Migration from Siebel 7.8 running on SQL Server to Oracle 10g RAC"), DBA Consultant of two Database Successful Oracle Cases. Ulises has been very active in the installation and monitoring of RAC environments for OLTP and DataWarehouses Databases. He has been responsible for the high availability for global's databases. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info Peter McLarty, is a Senior Consultant working in Brisbane, Australia. Peter has worked with technology all his life. He is presently employed by Pacic DBMS Pty Ltd. He works with Oracle database, Middleware Fusion and Enterprise Manager with clients in Brisbane. Peter's career spans 25 years in technology and 13 years in database management. Peter has worked mainly in Australia and Asia. Peter's other interests include studying Asia and its cultures and of course its food, sailing and football. He can be found supporting his team each season at the stadium. He has a wife and two children who say that they have to suffer through the times of editing books, amongst other projects. Peter would like to thank them for their understanding and allowing dad to do his stuff at times! Peter can be reached on the Internet at peter.mclarty@pameacs.com. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Alison Voyvodich on 4th December 2009 12593 80th Avenue N, , Seminole, , 33776 Download at WoweBook.Com www.it-ebooks.info [...]... make your middleware infrastructure highly available Chapter 1: Enterprise Manager Grid Control will introduce the key concepts of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid control You will learn about the Grid Control architecture and terminology, basic concepts, and entities The lifecycle of a managed target in Grid Control Chapter 2: Installing Enterprise Manager Grid Control discusses installing Grid Control. .. provisioning Information publishing Synthetic transaction Manage from anywhere Enterprise Manager product family Products managed by Enterprise Manager Enterprise Manager Architecture Target Oracle Management Service (OMS) Oracle Management Agent (OMA) Oracle Management Repository (OMR) Enterprise Manager Console Enterprise Manager High Availability Summary 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 20 20 21 23 23... , 33776 Table of Contents Chapter 2: Installing Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation procedure Pre-requisite Operating system requirements Downloading the software Installing OMS and repository 27 28 28 29 29 30 Installing Grid Control 10gR1 or 10gR2 Upgrading to Grid Control 10gR5 30 34 Installing Management Agent Starting and stopping Grid Control Starting and stopping OMS Starting and stopping... middleware applications Who this book is for Most people think of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control as a database administration tool and are not aware of the middleware management capabilities it offers This book helps you learn the middleware management functions and the features offered by Oracle Enterprise Manager If you are a middleware administrator or aspire to be one, then this book is for... steps on how to extend Grid Control functionality It'll have a step-by-step instructions for building a monitoring plug-in for Sun System Web Server Chapter 14: Best Practices for Managing Middleware Components Using Enterprise Manager discusses some of the best practices for middleware management that you can apply while using Enterprise Manager Grid Control to manage your middleware applications... 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