Cloud Mgmt Workshop

Course Information

Description

In this course, you learn to use the core functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. After a brief review of the underlying architecture, you use Cloud Control to manage an enterprise-computing environment. This includes tasks, such as: Managing and monitoring Cloud Control, managing hosts, groups, systems and services, monitoring targets, using the job system and Enterprise Manager reporting tools, viewing and comparing configurations, and managing compliance.

Hands-on practices help students learn how to use the robust features of Cloud Control to manage, monitor, and administer their data center.

Learn To:

• Monitor the overall health of your Cloud Control system.
• Manage targets, hosts and groups
• Use the job system to create and manage jobs to automate commonly performed tasks
• Use Information Publisher to generate custom reports
• View, search and compare configurations
• Manage incidents and deployments

Target Audience

• Database Administrators
• System Administrator
• Administrator
• Technical Administrator

Delegates will learn how to

• Monitor the overall health of your Cloud Control system
• Manage targets, hosts and groups
• Use the job system to create and manage jobs to automate commonly performed tasks
• Use Information Publisher to generate custom reports
• View, search and compare configurations
• Manage incidents and deployments
• Explain compliance policies and evaluate policy violations

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

Producing and Using Enterprise Manager reports

• Information Publisher
• Using Oracle-Provided Reports
• Reporting on Targets
• Workflow for Creating EM Reports/li>
• Schedule, save, and email reports
• Enterprise Manager Reports Web Site

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

Managing Deployments

• 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