Detailed Course Outline
Introduction
- Course overview
- Key Challenges for Administrators
- What Is Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
- Built-in and Integrated Manageability
- Configuration Management
- This Course in Context
- Course Schedule
- Classroom Setup
Reviewing Enterprise Manager Core Concepts
- Review Oracle Enterprise Manager architecture
- Agent Installation and Target Discovery
- Describing Different Target Types
- Monitoring Cloud Control
- Security (very high level)
- Managing Securely with Credentials
Managing and Monitoring Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
- Viewing Log Files and Trace Files
- Controlling Cloud Control components
- Configuring Alerts and Notifications
- Backup and Recovery: Repository, OMS and OMA
Monitoring Targets
- System Monitoring
- Oracle-Provided Monitoring
- Metric Thresholds and Settings
- Corrective Actions
- Using Monitoring Templates
- Receiving Alerts and Notifications
- Blackouts
- Metric Extensions
Managing Hosts
- Monitor the Host OS
- Monitor and Manage All Hosts
- Monitor an Individual Host
- Administering Network Components
Managing Groups
- Administering Network Components
- Manage targets with groups
- Define and distinguish Enterprise Manager groups
- Create groups
- Perform group management tasks
- Define administration groups and a group hierarch
- Define and use template collections
- Apply template modifications
Managing Systems and Services
- Workflow for Systems and Services
- Define and administer systems
- Viewing the System Topology
- Define and creating services
- Define and monitor the availability of a service
- Discuss the use of beacons
- Define and monitor service levels
- Specifying Service Level Rule Elements
Using the Job System
- What Is a Job?
- Core Concepts and Tasks
- Distinguish predefined jobs for your user-defined ones
- Create and manage jobs of different types
- Creating a Multi-Task Job
- Use the job library
- Enable job notifications
- View job activity
Managing Incidents
- Define and manage incidents
- Perform incident lifecycle operations: Assign, acknowledge, prioritize, track status, escalate, suppress
- Distinguish incidents and problem
- Monitor Oracle software problems
- Use incident rule sets (which replace notification rules)
- Describe the processing priority of rules and notifications
Patching and Provisioning
- Software life-cycle management
- Provisioning and patching
- Software library
- Use Deployment Procedure Manager
- Deployment procedures and use cases
- Bare metal provisioning
Managing Configurations
- What Is Configuration Management?
- Viewing Configurations
- Comparing Configurations
- Searching the Enterprise Configuration
- Client Configuration
- Client System Analyzer in Cloud Control
Managing Compliance
- Compliance Management
- Define compliance management: framework, standards, and rules
- Describe the predefined compliance functionality
- Assign compliance standards to targets
- View the results
- Evaluate compliance levels
Producing and Using Enterprise Manager reports
- Information Publisher
- Using Oracle-Provided Reports
- Reporting on Targets
- Workflow for Creating EM Reports
- Schedule, save, and email reports
- Enterprise Manager Reports Web Site