Introduction
- Understanding what today’s Data Center looks like
- Explaining Enterprise Manager Grid Control
- Explaining how to use Enterprise Manager Grid Control in business driven IT management
- Discussing key features of Enterprise Manager Grid Control
- Describing Enterprise Manager Grid Control’s capabilities to manage the complete enterprise application stack
- Discussing Management Plug-ins and Connectors available for Enterprise Manager Grid Control
- Grid Control Architecture
Describing the components of Grid Control
- Explaining the architecture of Grid Control
- Describing the target types managed by Grid Control
- Explaining the Grid Control Console pages and its functionalities
- Discussing the application of the Maximum Availability Architecture to a Grid Control environment
- Grid Control Installation
Installing WebLogic Server and Grid Control
- Understanding the installation process for the various components that make up Grid Control
- Discussing the ports used for a standard Grid Control installation
- Explaining the directory structure for Grid Control
- Setting Up Enterprise Manager Grid Control
Configuring Grid Control to set up additional administrators
- Identifying the types of privileges used in Grid Control
- Using roles to assign privileges to groups of administrators
- Setting up preferred credentials to simplify access to managed targets
- Managing and Monitoring Grid Control
Monitoring the availability of Grid Control components
- Monitoring the performance of the Management Server, Repository, and Agent
- Identifying log and trace files for all Grid Control components
- Starting and stopping Grid Control components
- Discussing backup and recovery of Grid Control components
- Managing Hosts
Performing administrative tasks on Linux hosts
- Executing the Host command
- Using log file alerts
- Using net service administration
- Using the remote file editor
- Viewing storage details
- Managing Groups
Defining groups
- Describing the usage of groups
- Creating groups
- Using dashboards to monitor groups
- Applying monitoring templates to groups
- Using notification rules on groups
- Managing Systems and Services
Defining systems and services
- Creating a service based on a system
- Defining and monitoring the availability of a service
- Discussing the use of beacons
- Defining and monitoring service levels
- Explaining Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Monitoring Targets
Identifying out-of-box monitoring features
- Changing metric settings
- Creating and applying monitoring templates
- Using notifications
- Defining corrective actions
- Creating notification rules
- Creating User-Defined Metrics (UDMs)
- Using blackouts
- Job Systems
Defining jobs
- Using pre-defined jobs
- Creating user defined jobs
- Creating multitask jobs
- Viewing job activity
- Using job operations
- Purging jobs
- Enabling job notifications
- Information Publisher
Viewing and customizing Oracle-provided reports
- Creating custom reports
- Creating custom reports by using the management repository and its base views to generate a report
- Scheduling reports
- Sharing reports with the entire business community
- Provisioning and Patching Automation
Discussing software lifecycle management
- Defining provisioning and patching
- Discussing provisioning concepts
- Defining the software library
- Configuring the software library
- Defining deployment procedures
- Defining bare metal provisioning
- Configuration Management
Explaining the need for configuration management
- Describing configuration management
- Viewing configurations of managed targets
- Comparing configurations of managed targets
- Viewing configuration summary for managed targets
- Defining the Client System Analyzer
- Defining collection tag associations
- Managing Compliance
Defining compliance management
- Viewing compliance management pages in Grid Control
- Evaluating compliance levels
- Setting up compliance evaluations
- Customizing policies
- Discussing types of policy groups
- Defining compliance scores
- Extending Grid Control
Identifying the available management plug-ins
- Discussing the benefits of managing third-party components with Grid Control
- Deploying management plug-ins
- Explaining management connectors in Grid Control
