5 Monitoring Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

5.1 Prerequisites to Discovering Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

There are several steps you must perform before you can discover Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. The following sections outline these steps in detail and provide you with the information you need to set up the Exalogic Elastic Cloud targets:

• Importing Ops Center Certificate to the Oracle Management Agent Keystore

• Critical Prerequisites For Oracle VM Manager Discovery

• ZFS Plug-in and Oracle VM Manager Registration Preconfiguration Steps

5.2 Using the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Discovery Wizard

You can use the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Discovery wizard to discover and monitor an Exalogic target in Enterprise Manager.

The Exalogic Elastic Cloud Discovery process identifies the targets present in the Exalogic Elastic Cloud and maps them to Enterprise Manager targets, then adds Enterprise Manager targets as Exalogic Elastic Cloud system members.

To use the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Discover wizard, follow these steps:

1. In Enterprise Manager, navigate to the Systems page.

2. From the Add drop-down list, choose Exalogic Elastic Cloud and click Add.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Discover Exalogic Elastic Cloud page which allows you to enter the parameters and values required to discover an Oracle Exalogic target.

3. Specify a unique Name for the Oracle Exalogic target you want to monitor in the Name field.

4. Select an Agent on one of the hosts in the Exalogic System to perform the discovery. For virtual Exalogic configurations, select the agent running on the same vServer as the Exalogic enterprise controller. If an Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Agent is not present on the vServer, deploy one using the following documentation:

   http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/install_agent.htm#CACJEFJI

   For non-virtual Exalogic configurations, select an Agent on one of the hosts in the Exalogic System to perform the discovery.

   If you choose an agent that is not part of the Exalogic System, an error message appears stating that no Exalogic Property File can be found and indicating that you must choose an Agent which is on an Exalogic System Host. For a virtual deployment the host may not have the ID.

5. Choose the Deployment Type from the drop-down. You can select either Physical or Virtual.

6. For virtualized Exalogic configurations, provide details about the Ops Center Enterprise Controller monitoring the Exalogic Elastic Cloud you want to discover. You must enter information in the Ops Center Host Name field, the Ops Center Port field, and the credentials in the Username and Password fields.

   For deployment type physical (not-virtualized) Exalogic, you must provide the desired Enterprise Manager target name and a corresponding Enterprise Manager agent on an Exalogic rack host target.

   Note:

   For Exalogic deployment types "physical" (not-virtualized) there is no hardware rack schematic in the hardware-tab page view as there is for a properly configured virtualized Exalogic target.

7. Click Next. Enterprise Manager displays the Discover Oracle Exalogic Targets: Discovered Targets page. The page displays all member targets (such as PDU, Switches, ILOM) that are discovered as part of the system and displays other discovered hardware targets in virtual discovery.

8. Click Finish to complete discovery. You can also choose Back to return to the Discover Exalogic Elastic Cloud page or Cancel to terminate the discovery process.

   Enterprise Manager displays a confirmation that the Exalogic Elastic Cloud instance has been added and begins to monitor the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target. The new target is displayed on the Systems page.

5.3 Upgrading Exalogic System Targets to the Version 12.1.0.3 Fusion Middleware Model

You can upgrade the Exalogic System targets discovered in Enterprise Manager version 11 of Grid Control and Enterprise Manager version 12 of Cloud Control to the 12.1.0.3 Fusion Middleware model. Before you upgrade the Exalogic System targets, however, the Management Agent monitoring the Exalogic System target must also be upgraded and the Management Agent should have the version 12.1.0.3 Fusion Middleware Plug-in.

The upgrade job is available as a library job by choosing Jobs from the Enterprise menu and then selecting Library. Select the job name, Upgrade Exalogic Systems To Fusion Middleware 12.1.0.3.0 Model. The job can be run more than once. Run this job after upgrading the OMS and the Management Agent monitoring the Exalogic System target. If the job is successful, Enterprise Manager displays a confirmation message indicating that all Exalogic systems have been upgraded and the job is complete. If one or more Management Agents monitoring Exalogic System targets are not upgraded, the job will fail. Under such circumstances, first upgrade those Management Agents and then try submitting this job to upgrade the Exalogic System targets.

5.4 Displaying and Using the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard

Use the Software tab on the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard to display status information including alerts and key performance metrics of the following targets in the Exalogic Elastic Cloud:

• Application Deployments

• WebLogic Domains

• Coherence Clusters

• Hosts

• SOA

• OTD

The Software tab displays an Incident section in the table for each element, such as Application Deployments or WebLogic Domains, that shows alerts on which you can drill down for more information.

You can also use the Software tab to view the alarms that are generated in OpsCenter for an Exalogic Elastic Cloud system as incidents for an Exalogic system target. The Software tab displays alarms and incidents generated for OpsCenter as incidents in Cloud Control for an Exalogic System target so that you can view all the issues from both the systems at one place. This allows you to use the existing integration between Cloud Control and the ticketing system to manage the OpsCenter incidents.

The Software tab displays large numbers of software targets that are members of the Exalogic system. You can use the inter-region filtering option to conduct a page level search. For example, if the search is performed for an Oracle WebLogic Domain, the Applications region is also filtered to show all the applications deployed on the WebLogic servers that are members of the searched WebLogic domain. Similarly the Host region is filtered to show hosts that are hosting the WebLogic servers that are part of the searched WebLogic domain.

You can also use the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard page to access the Hardware tab where you can view information about the hardware and infrastructure of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud. You can view information such as Temperature (by turning on the Temperature option at the top of the Exalogic Schematic) and Status, as well as a Hardware Schematic depicting the current state of the hardware.

The Hardware tab displays the number of hardware units in each category along with their status in the Overview section. It also shows the Incidents associated with the hardware. The Exalogic Hardware schematic shows the position of each hardware component on the rack. You can use the Incidents section to monitor hardware issues that arise and then drill down to the Incident Manager page by clicking the Incident Summary for more details about the incident.

To display and use the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard, follow these steps:

1. In Enterprise Manager, navigate to the Systems page. Filter the entries in the Search field by choosing Exalogic Elastic Cloud from the drop-down list and click Go. In the Search Results table, choose the Exalogic Elastic Cloud you want to view.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Home page where you can monitor the components on the Exalogic Dashboard.

2. You can view detailed information about each software component by choosing the component name from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud drop-down list. Only the software components are visible in the Exalogic drop-down list. Other hardware components can be seen in the Members tab.

   Enterprise Manager displays the component page you selected. For example, select WebLogic Domains Summary page to see the charts showing the status of weblogic servers, Request Processing Time metric information, CPU Usage, Requests per minute, and Heap Usage data.

3. You can return to this page at any time by choosing Home from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud drop-down list.

4. You can display General Information about the Exalogic target by choosing Target Information from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud drop-down list.

5.5 Refreshing the Exalogic Elastic Cloud

You should consider refreshing the system whenever you upgrade the Exalogic Rack, for example, from a quarter to half. You should also consider refreshing when you discover Oracle VM Manager or ZFS targets after the Exalogic system is discovered. To refresh the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, follow these steps:

1. From the Targets menu, select Exalogic.

2. From the list of Exalogic targets, click the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target you want to view.

3. From the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu, choose Refresh Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

   Cloud Control displays a page where you must click Refresh to start the refresh action or Cancel to cancel. When the refresh action completes, Enterprise Manager displays a Confirmation page that shows the targets found and prompts you to press any button to continue.

4. Click Close.

   When you close the Confirmation page, the Discover Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Discovered Targets page appears where you can view all targets associated with the system. You can then click Add Targets to save the targets.

5.6 Monitoring the Hardware Components of Exalogic Elastic Cloud

You can monitor the hardware components of an Exalogic Elastic Cloud by following these steps:

1. From the Enterprise Manager Systems page, click the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target from the table. Alternatively, you can choose Exalogic from the Targets menu.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard page.

2. Click the Hardware tab to view a schematic showing the hardware configuration of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

   You can use the Hardware tab to view information such as Temperature (by turning on the Temperature option at the top of the Exalogic Schematic) and Status, as well as a Hardware Schematic depicting the current state of the hardware.

   The Hardware tab displays the number of hardware units in each category along with their status in the Overview section. It also shows the Incidents associated with the hardware. The Exalogic Schematic depicts the hardware, such as Infiniband Switches, Storage Heads, Storage Disks, and Compute Nodes and employs a Legend that indicates the current state (Up, Down, Unallocated, and so on) of each.

   You can use the Incidents section to monitor hardware issues that arise and then drill down to the Incident Manager page by clicking the Incident Summary for more details about the incident.

5.7 Viewing Application Deployments in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets

Use the Application Deployments page in the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target area to view details about the applications hosted on the hosts running on the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target.

To view application deployments in Exalogic Elastic Cloud targets, follow these steps:

1. In Enterprise Manager, navigate to the Systems page. Filter the entries in the Search field by choosing Exalogic Elastic Cloud from the drop-down list and clicking Go. In the Search Results table, choose the Exalogic Elastic Cloud you want to view.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Home page where you can monitor the status of the Exalogic target and its components.

2. Choose Application Deployments from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Application Deployments page.

3. You can choose to show All Domains or filter by specific domains by choosing the domain from the Show menu.

4. You can drill down to specific applications, targets, domains, or dependencies by clicking on its related value in each row.

5. You can filter the list of applications by choosing a value from the Status drop-down. You can select from Up, Down, Unknown, Blackout, and All.

6. You can change the column appearance of the table by clicking View and choosing which Columns to display, expanding or collapsing rows, or scrolling to the first or last row. You can also reorder columns.

7. You can use the Topology tab to display a pictorial view of the Application Deployments in various relational configurations.

5.8 Viewing WebLogic Domains in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets

You can use Enterprise Manager to view details about the domains hosted on the virtual machines running on Exalogic Elastic Cloud target. To view WebLogic domains in Exalogic Elastic Cloud targets, follow these steps:

1. In Enterprise Manager, navigate to the Systems page. Filter the entries in the Search field by choosing Exalogic Elastic Cloud from the drop-down list and click Go. In the Search Results table, choose the Exalogic Elastic Cloud you want to view.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Home page where you can monitor the status of the Exalogic target and its components.

2. Choose WebLogics Domain from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu. You can choose to view either a Summary of the WebLogic Domains or specific information about Members.

   Enterprise Manager displays the related WebLogic Domain page.

3. On the Summary page you can view a chart that shows the status of the WebLogic Domains and displays the percentage of domains that are up and down. You can also view server information that shows the Server Status and alert and policy violation information for each. You can monitor charts that display metric information such as Request Processing Time and CPU Usage and you can drill down through these charts for more detailed information. Change the chart view to a table view by clicking Table View or Chart View beneath each table or chart. The Server table displays information about servers and domains showing host information and related metrics.

4. On the Members page, you can view the Status information along with alerts and policy violation and metric data for each WebLogic Server or Domain. Use the Performance Summary section to view metrics for each, such as Host and Cluster information and metrics such as Heap Usage and Request Processing Time.

5.9 Viewing Coherence Clusters in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets

You can use Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to view details about the Coherence targets that comprise the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target. To display Coherence Clusters in Cloud Control, follow these steps:

1. In Enterprise Manager, navigate to the Systems page. Filter the entries in the Search field by choosing Exalogic Elastic Cloud from the drop-down list and click Go. In the Search Results table, choose the Exalogic Elastic Cloud you want to view.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Home page where you can monitor the status of the Exalogic target and its components.

2. Choose Coherence Clusters from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Coherence Clusters page.

3. You can view a chart that shows the status of the Coherence Clusters and displays the percentage of clusters that are up and down.

4. You can drill down to specific values for each cluster such as Alerts and Policy Violations along with Node information.

5. You can filter the list of clusters by choosing a value from the Status drop-down. You can select from Up, Down, Unknown, Blackout, and All.

6. You can change the column appearance of the table by clicking View and choosing which Columns to display. You can also reorder columns.

7. The Coherence Clusters page displays two charts showing the Top Nodes With Lowest Available Memory and Caches With Lowest Hit To Get Ratio. You can drill down to specific node information by clicking on the Node name below the Top Nodes With Lowest Available Memory chart.

8. The Nodes table displays information about each Node, including Host and several metric values such as Memory Available, Gets, and Puts.

9. The Applications table displays information about applications such as Local Attribute Cache, Clustered Session Cache, and other metrics. You can drill down to specific information about each application by clicking the Application name.

5.10 Viewing Hosts in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets

You can view details about the host targets hosted on the physical and virtual machines running on the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target. To display the hosts information, follow these steps:

1. In Enterprise Manager, navigate to the All Targets page. Filter the entries in the Search field by choosing Exalogic Elastic Cloud from the drop-down list and click Go. In the Search Results table, choose the Exalogic Elastic Cloud you want to view.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Home page where you can monitor the status of the Exalogic target and its components.

2. Choose Hosts from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Hosts page.

3. You can view a chart that shows the status of the hosts and displays the percentage of hosts that are up and down.

4. You can view information about the Middleware Targets that lists the Type, Status, CPU Utilization percentage, Memory Utilization percentage, and Incident statistics along with Configuration Changes.

5. You can view charts showing the CPU Utilization percentage based on time and similarly, Memory Utilization based on time.

5.11 Exalogic Control Stack Monitoring

The Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software control software stack can be monitored by choosing Control Stack in the left hand navigation tree of the Exalogic target. Cloud Control displays a master-detail page of Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software virtual machines, corresponding hosts and control software element. Selecting each row master element results in a change in the detail of the page and corresponding key performance indicator charts. This page provides a unified view of incidents related to the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software control software stack.

5.12 Visualizing Relationships Between Exalogic Software and Hardware Components

Use Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to visualize relationships among Exalogic software and hardware components. To see the routing topology among these components, follow these steps:

1. From the Targets menu, select Exalogic.

2. From the list of Exalogic targets, click the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target you want to view.

3. From the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu, select Routing Topology.

4. View the relationships between Exalogic software and hardware components.

5.13 Analyzing the Impact of Component Failures

You can analyze the impact of component failures in an Exalogic environment by following these steps:

1. From the Targets menu, select Exalogic.

2. From the list of Exalogic targets, click the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target you want to view.

3. From the navigation panel, click the Oracle Infiniband Network you want to view.

4. From the Infiniband Network menu, select Topology.

5. Identify any problems with a component by observing status and incident badges, or by showing metric values by way of the Annotations toolbar menu.Identify components linked to the problem component in the diagram.

5.14 Viewing Incidents and Status Changes Created for an Exalogic System in Ops Center as Incidents in Cloud Control

This section describes how to configure Enterprise Manager Cloud Control in order to consolidate alarms/incidents from OpsCenter and consequently view all the issues from both systems in a single console. Furthermore, this configuration enables you to use the existing integration between Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and the ticketing system to manage the Ops Center incidents. Please note that once you start to manage OpsCenter incidents within Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, if for any reason you alter incidents in OpsCenter, those changes will not be reflected in Cloud Control.

The functionality of viewing Ops Center Alarms in Cloud Control is disabled by default. You can enable this functionality to view Ops Center Alarms in Cloud Control by performing the following steps:

1. From the Exalogic System target menu, select Monitoring and then choose Metric and Collection Settings.

2. Enable the Collection Schedule for the Ops Center Alarms metric by clicking Collection Schedule.

To view incidents and status changes created for an Exalogic system in Ops Center as incidents in Cloud Control, follow these steps:

1. From the Targets menu, choose Exalogic.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Systems page.

2. From the Systems page, click the Name of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud in the Systems table.

   Enterprise Manager displays the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard.

3. Click the Hardware tab to view alarms and incidents in Ops Center as an incident in Cloud Control for the Exalogic System target.

5.15 Creating Exalogic Reports

You can create the following Exalogic reports in Enterprise Manager:

• Oracle BI Instance Performance -- This report covers all BI instances running on the selected Exalogic rack. First a list of all WebLogic domains associated with the selected Exalogic rack is read, then all 'oracle_ias_farm' targets associated with those WebLogic domains are determined and then the list of all BI instances associated with those 'oracle_ias_farm' targets are identified.

• Oracle Internet Directory Performance -- This report covers all OID servers running on the selected Exalogic rack. First a list of all WebLogic domains associated with the selected Exalogic rack is read, then all 'oracle_ias_farm' targets associated with those WebLogic domains are determined and then the list of all OID servers associated with those 'oracle_ias_farm' targets are identified.

• Oracle Service Bus Performance -- This report covers all OSB servers running on the selected Exalogic rack. First a list of all WebLogic domains associated with the selected Exalogic rack is read and then all OSB server targets associated with those WebLogic domains through 'farm' association are identified. This report has two sections under each OSB server – Top Business Services and Top Proxy Services. These sections show the top five business services and the top five proxy services respectively. The top five services are determined based on the decreasing order of max value of throughput (for example, messages per minute) metric for each service during the selected period.

• SOA Infrastructure Performance -- This report covers all SOA Infra targets running on the selected Exalogic rack. First a list of all WebLogic domains associated with the selected Exalogic rack is read and then all SOA Infra targets associated with those WebLogic domains through 'farm' association are identified. The SOA Infra Engine related charts cover only the following four engine types - bpel, bpmn, mediator and workflow.

• Oracle WebLogic Server Performance -- This report covers all WebLogic servers running on the selected Exalogic rack. The list of all WebLogic domains associated with the selected Exalogic rack is read. The report is divided into sections based on different WebLogic domains. For each domain, the top five servers are shown in the charts for each metric. The top five servers for each metric are determined by decreasing order of max value for the metric for each server in the selected period.

• Compliance Summary -- This report give a brief summary about the compliance standards evaluated for the middleware targets like WebLogic server, domains, clusters, host, and so on, running on the Exalogic system. The report shows the list of top ten least compliant WebLogic domains and host and Compliance Standard Summary.

• Compliance Details -- This report give details on about the compliance standards evaluated for middleware targets like WebLogic domains, servers, clusters, hosts, and so on, running on the Exalogic system. The reports show the top ten least compliant WebLogic domains and host and a detailed list on compliance rules violated for the middleware targets.

The Reports menu item is visible in the Exalogic system menu if BIP is configured with Enterprise Manager. If BIP is not configured, the menu item does not appear.

To create Exalogic reports, follow these steps:

1. From the Targets menu, select Exalogic.

2. From the list of Exalogic targets, click the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target for which you want to create reports.

3. From the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu, choose Reports and then select the report you want to create from the menu.

5.16 Viewing and Managing Exalogic Consumption Tracking

You can use resource utilization features in Enterprise Manager to view consumption tracking and set the license edition for each target of a Exalogic system. To view consumption tracking information, follow these steps:

1. From the Targets menu, select Exalogic.

2. From the list of Exalogic targets, click the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target for which you want to view consumption information.

3. From the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu, choose Resource Utilization. and then select Consumption Tracking.

   Cloud Control displays the vCPU Consumption page where you can perform the following tasks:

   • View the resource consumption trend for the previous 24 hours by choosing View Trends.

   • Export the data on the vCPU Consumption page for the selected Time Period, View, and Product by clicking Export.

   • Click Manage License Edition to access a dialog box where you can set the license edition for each target of the current Exalogic system.

   • View the details for the selected product in the Details table. The table displays the Collection Time/Host, vCPUs, Target Name, Target Type, Version, Cost Center, and Owner.

5.17 Viewing the vCPU Consumption Report

To view the vCPU Consumption Report for the software components running on an Exalogic Machine, do the following:

1. On the vCPU Consumption page, select one of the time periods in the Time Period drop-down list.

   Note:

   When you select a time period, the Product table and Details table refreshes automatically for the chosen time period.

2. From the Product list, select the product or the products for which you want to view the consumption report. By default all the products are selected.

3. From the Product table, select a Product for which you want to view the consumption report.

   Note:

   When you select a product, the Details table refreshes automatically to display the Consumption Report for the product.

4. The Details table displays the consumption details for the product or products that you have selected.

   You can add more details as columns to the Details table by clicking View, selecting Columns, and then selecting the items you want to be displayed. You can select which columns you want to be visible and which columns to hide by clicking Manage Columns.

   By default, the Details table displays the collection time and the number of total vCPUs consumed. Expand the collection time and host name to view all the following details:

   • Collection time of the point when vCPU was collected

   • Host name of the host on which software is running

   • The Exalogic machine name

   • The number of total vCPUs consumed by the software/target running at that time

   • The target name

   • The target type

   • The owner of the target

5.18 Viewing the Resource Consumption Trend

To view the resource consumption trend for an Exalogic machine target, do the following:

1. On the vCPU Consumption page, from the Product drop-down list, select the product for which you want to view the resource consumption trend.

   Select All if you want to view the resource consumption trend for all the targets.

   Note:

   When you make a selection from the Product drop-down list, the Product table and the Details table automatically refreshes to display the details for the product or products that you have selected.

2. From the Time Period drop-down list, select the time period for which you want to view the resource consumption trend.

3. Click View Trends.

4. The Resource Consumption Trend window opens.

   If you selected All products, then the graphical representation of the resource consumption for all the products will be displayed. You can choose to view trends for individual products as well, by clicking on the Product drop-down list, and selecting the product.

5. You can also choose to view the resource consumption trend in a table format by clicking Table View.

   On the Table view page, you can customize the details you want to view in the table by clicking View.

6. Click OK to close the Resource Consumption trend window.

5.19 Exporting the vCPU Consumption Report

To export the vCPU consumption report for an Exalogic machine target, do the following:

1. On the vCPU Consumption page, select the following:

   • Time Period

     Select a time period for which you want to view the vCPU consumption report for.

   • View

     Select Product.

   • Product

     Select the products for which you want to view the vCPU consumption report.

     Select All if you want to view the vCPU consumption report for all the products.

2. Click Export.

3. On the Opening License dialog box, select the program with which you want to open the file. Microsoft Office Excel is the default program. Click OK.

5.20 Configuring Exalogic Oracle Engineered System Healthchecks

Health check targets are discovered independently of Exalogic. This target can be navigated by a menu item which is added as part of integration of Health Check with Exalogic. The HealthCheck menu item is hidden in Exalogic system and rack menu if the HealthCheck target is not discovered. Once the HealthCheck target is discovered, you must refresh the Exalogic Cloud, which will then enable the menu item. You can then navigate to the HealthCheck page from the Exalogic system and rack menu.

Each rack has its own HealthCheck target and you can navigate to its own HealthCheck target (in case of multi rack scenario) while the Exalogic system displays the HealthCheck target of the primary rack.

For more information about configuring Exalogic Oracle-engineered system healthchecks, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-In Installation Guide for Oracle Engineered System Healthchecks.