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This chapter contains the following sections:
In order to manage and monitor Oracle Fusion Middleware components running on Exalytics, such as WebLogic domain, Oracle BI Foundation 11g, and Oracle TimesTen (in-memory database), Enterprise Manager Cloud Control must first discover the Exalytics machine containing these components.
Once discovered, the Exalytics machine and the components within it can be promoted to "managed target" status, enabling Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to collect the data needed to monitor the target.
This section contains the following topics:
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An Exalytics system consists of one or more Exalytics machines. The machine(s) can be physical, virtualized, or a mix of both. These prerequisites are for discovering an Exalytics machine target.Before discovering an Exalytics machine target, meet the following prerequisites:
A Management Agent for discovering targets must be deployed onto the physical Exalytics machine (host).
For discovering a virtual machine, make sure that at least one of the virtual Exalytics has a Management Agent running on it. However, all virtual machines require a Management Agent to be deployed on them for monitoring.
To identify the Exalytics machine, ensure that you have the context info file which contains the Exalytics machine ID.
To discover an Exalytics system target in an Exalytics system, follow these steps:
From the Setup menu, select Add Target, and then select Add Targets Manually.
On the Add Targets Manually page, select Add Targets Using Guided Process (Also Adds Related Targets).
From the Target Types drop-down list, select Exalytics System, and then click Add Using Guided Process...
On the Discover Exalytics System page, provide a name for the Exalytics System, and then click Add Machine.
Provide the following details:
Name
Provide a unique for the Oracle Exalytics machine target.
Agent
Enter or select the Management Agent to use for the Oracle Exalytics Machine discovery process.
Deployment Type
Select Physical or Virtual depending on if you want to discover a physical target or a virtual target.
Host Name (only for Virtual target)
Enter the host name or IP Address where Oracle Virtual Server is running
User Name and Password
For a physical Exalytics machine, provide credentials of the user which has privileges to run the imageinfo command.
For a virtual Exalytics machine, provide credentials to log in to Oracle Virtual Server (OVS). You should have privileges to run the imageinfo command.
Click Next.
A confirmation box appears. Click OK.
Note:
Click Add Targets to save the targets as a Manageable Entity.You can use Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c to monitor and administer certain Exalytics systems. Proactively monitoring the status, performance, and health of Exalytics system targets enables you to use your Exalytics system more efficiently and react faster to potential issues.
By monitoring a system using Enterprise Manager, you obtain a complete and up to date overview of the status, availability, performance, and health of the system. Enterprise Manager displays complex target performance data in a simple form, using graphs and pie charts. It also keeps you informed about target metrics crossing their threshold levels, target alerts, and target incidents that require user action.
Using the Exalytics System console, you can do the following tasks:
To access the Exalytics System dashboard, from the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
The Exalytics System Dashboard displays status information including alerts and key performance metrics of the following Fusion Middleware targets that are managed and monitored by the Exalytics System:
WebLogic domains
Oracle BI Foundation 11g
Oracle TimesTen (in-memory database)
Hosts
By default, the table for each Fusion Middleware component displays the name of the component, the type, the status, incidents, the host the component is running on, and the port. You can add more columns by clicking View, selecting Columns and then choosing the options that you want displayed as columns in the table.
The dashboard also displays an Incidents and Problems section that shows alerts for targets that have problems. The table also displays the status of the target, the severity of the problem, the escalation level, and the time when the target was last updated.
You can view detailed information about the Exalytics System from the Exalytics System menu, such as performance summary, alert history, target incidents, members topology, routing topology, and job activity. You can also perform management and administrative tasks such as refreshing the system, removing the system, granting target access privileges, and administering target blackouts.
Using the Enterprise Manager Exalytics System console, you can perform the following generic performance tasks:
To view the performance summary of the Exalytics system, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
On the Exalytics system home page, click on the Exalytics System menu, select Monitoring, and then select Performance Summary.
The following charts are displayed:
Average query time (in seconds)
Server queries (per second)
Status of BI Instance
Active Sessions
Failed Requests
Requests (per minute)
You can change the order of the charts by clicking on the View menu, and selecting Reorder Charts. This enables you to move a chart up, down, or to remove it.
On the Performance Summary page, you can do the following:
You can view the performance of the Exalytics summary for the entire day, 2 hours, or for 15 minutes.
You can set what you want to be displayed on the chart by clicking the View menu and selecting or deselecting the items.
You can overlay the chart displayed with the chart from the previous chart, or you can overlay it with the performance summary chart of another Exalytics System.
To do this, click on Overlay, and then select an option.
You can view the metric palette by clicking on View Metric Palette.
To view the alert history of an Exalytics system, from the Exalytics System menu displayed on the Exalytics system home page, select Monitoring, then select Alert History.
The Alert History page provides details about target metrics, such as the periods when a particular metric was beyond its critical threshold value, the periods when the metric could not be calculated, and so on. These details help you plan corrective measures for metric-related problems, before any severe damage or prolonged downtime can occur.
The Alert History page contains the following elements:
To view the incidents related to the target, from the Exalytics System menu displayed on the target home page, select Monitoring, then select Incident Manager.
The Incident Manager page provides details about the various events, related to the target, that negatively impact any hardware or software component running on the Exalytics system. These events require user action. The details provided by this section, such as the incident summary, severity, target, target type, and so on, are essential for troubleshooting.
To view the members topology of an Exalytics system, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
From the Exalytics System menu displayed on the Exalytics system home page, select Members, and then select Topology.
The Configuration Topology page for the System is displayed.
The topology viewer enables you to understand and visualize your IT environment in a graphical format. The inter-relationships between systems display results such as on what systems does this system rely, what systems will be affected if this system goes down, and how are the members of my system related?
On this page, you can perform the following tasks:
To view a configuration topic, from the View list, select any of the following:
Uses
This view helps you determine the targets that the selected target depends on. If a target is having problems, this view can be useful in helping you determine whether its problems have been caused by another target it depends on.
Used By
This view shows you the targets that depend on the selected target. This can be useful, for example, if you are planning on shutting down the target and need to know what other targets will be affected
System Members
This view shows the members of the system.
Custom views that have been defined by end users.
Note:
The Uses, Used By, and System Members views are out-of-box topology views. They cannot be modified.To create a custom topology view, do the following:
From the Customize menu, select Create Custom View.
Provide the name and description for the topology and select one of the Initial Contents:
Copy Current View to create a topology view similar to the one you are viewing.
Create Empty View to create a topology view that starts with the root node.
Choose one of the following expose options:
Expose the custom view for all targets of the current target type. For example, if you are creating at a topology view for a database target, the new view will be available for all database targets.
Expose the custom view for the current target only.
To share the view, click Share this custom view with other users.
Click OK.
Reduce the unwanted information in the topology by highlighting the target and selecting Hide Relationships... in the Customize menu.
You can also display relationships that are not being displayed by selecting a target. From the Customize menu, select Target, then select Show More Relationships to Target Type....
Click OK.
A topology diagram is an interactive diagram showing Enterprise Manager targets and their statuses, incidents, and other target information, as well as the relationships between targets.
To view the Exalytics Routing Topology page, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
From the Exalytics System menu displayed on the target home page, select Routing Topology.
The Routing Topology page displays middleware targets in a single topology diagram, allowing you to see dependencies among targets and the impact of component failures.
You can use this page to visualize which software components are communicating with each other, and which hardware components they are using in order to understand the system. You can learn which components of a system are impacted by a problem with another component.
The topology graph expresses the relationships between the targets of the Exalytics system. The targets are annotated to indicate status and incidents. Tool tips show additional information about entities and relationships. You can pan and zoom the graph, as in popular map programs, and also expand and collapse desired areas of the graph. The graph can be filtered to show only desired nodes.
To refresh an Exalytics System, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
From the Exalytics System menu displayed on the target home page, select Refresh Exalytics System.
The Exalytics target discovery page opens.
You can rediscover Exalytics machine targets to add to the Exalytics system, or you can remove existing targets from the system.
To discover Exalytics machine targets, refer to Discovering an Exalytics System Target.
To view the past, currently running, and scheduled jobs related to a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
From the Exalytics System menu displayed on the target home page, select Job Activity.
The Job Activity page displays target jobs related to target administrative tasks, such as starting the target, stopping the target, target blackouts, and so on.
Use the Job Activity page to search for a particular job and retrieve job details such as the owner, status, scheduled start time, and so on. You can also use the Job Activity page to perform target job administration tasks, such as creating, editing, suspending, and resuming a job.
You can perform the following administration tasks on a target of an Exalytics system:
To manage the access privileges for a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
From the Exalytics System menu displayed on the Exalytics system home page, select Target Setup, then select Administrator Access.
Click Add to grant target access privileges to a role or an administrator.
Use the Access page to set target privileges for roles and administrators. The available privileges are View, Operator, and Full.
View only allows you to view the target in the console, whereas Operator allows you to view targets, and perform all administrative actions except deleting targets. Full allows you to view targets, and perform all administrative actions.
To administer the blackouts for a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
From the Exalytics System menu displayed on the Exalytics system home page, select Monitoring, then select Blackouts.
Blackouts suspend data collection on a monitored target. Blackouts are useful when you want to perform scheduled maintenance tasks on monitored targets.
Use the Blackouts page to search for existing target blackouts, edit existing blackouts, define new blackouts, and stop blackouts. You can also create and stop blackouts using the Exalytics System menu. To create or stop a blackout, from the Exalytics System menu, select Control, then select Create Blackout or End Blackout, respectively.
To remove an Exalytics machine target from an Exalytics System, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, select the Exalytics System that you want to access.
On the Exalytics system home page, from the Exalytics System menu, select Target Setup, and then Remove Target.
A warning will be displayed, asking if you want to proceed. Click Remove.
You can use Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c to monitor and administer certain Exalytics machine targets. Monitoring the status, performance, and health of Exalytics machine targets enables you to set up a more efficient Exalytics system.
By monitoring a target using Enterprise Manager, you obtain a complete and up to date overview of the status, availability, performance, and health of the target. Enterprise Manager displays complex target performance data in a simple form, using graphs and pie charts. It also keeps you informed about target metrics crossing their threshold levels, target alerts, and target incidents that require user action.
Using the Exalytics Machine console, you can do the following tasks:
To view the Exalytics Machine homepage, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
The Exalytics Machine home page displays the summary of the functioning of the Exalytics target. It shows the general information of the target, the overview of incidents and problems, the status of the target, the compliance summary, jobs activity, target blackouts, and the number of configuration changes.
You can view more detailed information of the target by clicking on the Exalytics Machine menu and selecting the option that you want to view, such as target alert history, target incidents, members topology, vCPU consumption report, job activity and collected configuration. You can also manage and administer tasks such as administering target access privileges, administering target blackouts, and removing the target.
The Exalytics Machine homepage also contains a Personalize Page button on the top right corner. This enables you to customize the homepage by adding, removing, or configuring regions. You can also change the layout of the page.
Using the Enterprise Manager Exalytics System console, you can perform the following generic performance tasks:
To view the alert history of an Exalytics machine, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine home page, select Monitoring, then select Alert History.
from the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine home page, select Monitoring, then select Alert History.
The Alert History page provides details about target metrics, such as the periods when a particular metric was beyond its critical threshold value, the periods when the metric could not be calculated, and so on. These details help you plan corrective measures for metric-related problems, before any severe damage or prolonged downtime can occur.
The Alert History page contains the following elements:
To view the incidents related to the target, navigate to the Incidents section, by following these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Monitoring, then select Incident Manager.
The Incident Manager page provides details about the various events, related to the target, that negatively impact any hardware and software components running on the Exalytics machine. These events require user action. The details provided by this section, such as the incident summary, severity, target, target type, and so on, are essential for troubleshooting.
To view the members topology of an Exalytics machine, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine target home page, select Members, and then select Topology.
The Configuration Topology page for the System is displayed.
The topology viewer enables you to understand and visualize your IT environment in a graphical format. The inter-relationships between systems are used to answer questions such as:
On what targets does this target rely?
What targets will be affected if this system goes down?
How are the members of my target related?
On this page, you can perform the following tasks:
To view a configuration topic, from the View list, select any of the following:
Uses
This view helps you determine the targets that the selected target depends on. If a target is having problems, this view can be useful in helping you determine whether its problems have been caused by another target it depends on.
Used By
This view shows you the targets that depend on the selected target. This can be useful, for example, if you are planning on shutting down the target and need to know what other targets will be affected
System Members
This view shows the members of the system.
Custom views that have been defined by end users.
Note:
The Uses, Used By, and System Members views are out-of-box topology views. They cannot be modified.To create a custom topology view, do the following:
From the Customize menu, select Create Custom View.
Provide the name and description for the topology and select one of the Initial Contents:
Copy Current View to create a topology view similar to the one you are viewing.
Create Empty View to create a topology view that starts with the root node.
Choose one of the following expose options:
Expose the custom view for all targets of the current target type. For example, if you are creating at a topology view for a database target, the new view will be available for all database targets.
Expose the custom view for the current target only.
To share the view, click Share this custom view with other users.
Click OK.
Reduce the unwanted information in the topology by highlighting the target and selecting Hide Relationships... in the Customize menu.
You can also display relationships that are not being displayed by selecting a target. From the Customize menu, select Target, then select Show More Relationships to Target Type....
Click OK.
To navigate to the Consumption Report page, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
On the Exalytics machine home page, click on the Exalytics Machine menu, select Resource Utilization, and then select Consumption Report (All Exalytics).
Note:
You can view the Consumption Report page only for virtual Exalytics machine targets.You can perform the following tasks on the vCPU Consumption page:
To view the vCPU Consumption Report for the software components running on an Exalytics Machine, do the following:
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.From the Product list, select the product or the products that you want to view the consumption report for. By default all the products are selected.
From the Product table, select a Product you want to view the consumption report for.
Note:
When you select a product, the Details table refreshes automatically to display the Consumption Report for the product.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 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 Exalytics machine name
The number of total vCPUs consumed by the software or the target running at that time
The target name
The target type
The owner of the target
To view the resource consumption trend for an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, from the Product drop-down list, select the product you want to view the resource consumption trend for.
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.From the Time Period drop-down list, select the time period for which you want to view the resource consumption trend for.
Click on View Trends.
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.
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.
Click OK to close the Resource Consumption trend window.
To export the vCPU consumption report for an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
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 you want to view the vCPU consumption report for.
Select All if you want to view the vCPU consumption report for all the products.
Click Export.
On the Opening License dialog box, select the program you want to open the file with. Microsoft Office Excel is the default program. Click OK.
To navigate to the Consumption Report page, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
On the Exalytics machine home page, click on the Exalytics Machine menu, select Resource Utilization, and then select Consumption Report (All Exalytics).
Note:
You can view the Consumption Report page only for virtual Exalytics machine targets.You can perform the following tasks related to managing license editions on the vCPU Consumption page:
To add a license edition to a target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, click Manage License Edition.
In the Manage License Edition dialog box, expand the Search icon. Enter details of the target you want to add a license edition to. Click Search.
Select the target from the Target table, and then click Set License Edition.
Note:
To view more details of the table, click View, and then select all the items you want to view as columns in the target table.Click Done.
To create a new license edition for an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, from the View list, select License Edition.
Click Manage License Edition.
On the Manage License Edition page, select the target you want a create a new license for, and then click Set License Edition.
In the Set License Edition box, you will see a list of licenses that the target already has.
Click Add.
Enter the name of the new license you want to add to the target.
Click OK.
To view the past, currently running, and scheduled jobs related to a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Job Activity.
The Job Activity page displays target jobs related to target administrative tasks, such as starting the target, stopping the target, target blackouts, and so on.
The Job Activity page displays target jobs related to target administrative tasks, such as starting the target, stopping the target, target blackouts, and so on.
To view the collected configuration data of an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine target home page, select Configuration and Last Collected.
The Latest Configuration page contains the following configuration data of the target:
Configuration items and properties
System configuration data as well as all system members and their configuration data
System and target relationships (immediate, member of, uses, used by, and so forth)
Custom configuration collection data
The browser window consists of left and right panes. The left pane is a tree hierarchy. The right pane consists of tabs that display information in tables. As you navigate in the tree, your selection dictates the contents in the right pane. Depending on the selection, tabs appear containing data such as properties and values, relationships, a hierarchical structure of a system and its members, and file contents in both a parsed and raw text format.
You can take any of several actions as you view a configuration in the browser. These actions are available from the Actions menu above the tabs. The tree hierarchy in the left pane also has context menus available.
You can perform the following administration tasks on the Exalytics machine target:
Viewing the Target Monitoring Configuration of an Exalytics Machine
Administering Target Access Privileges for an Exalytics Machine
To view the monitoring configuration details for a particular target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Target Setup, then select Monitoring Configuration.
The Monitoring Configuration page provides information about instance properties of the target, which provide internal details about target monitoring.
To manage the access privileges for a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Target Setup, then select Administrator Access.
Click Add to grant target access privileges to a role or an administrator.
Use the Access page to set target privileges for roles and administrators. The available privileges are View, Operator, and Full.
View only allows you to view the target in the console, whereas Operator allows you to view targets, and perform all administrative actions except deleting targets. Full allows you to view targets, and perform all administrative actions.
To administer the blackouts for a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Monitoring, then select Blackouts.
Blackouts suspend data collection on a monitored target. Blackouts are useful when you want to perform scheduled maintenance tasks on monitored targets.
Use the Blackouts page to search for existing target blackouts, edit existing blackouts, define new blackouts, and stop blackouts. You can also create and stop blackouts using the Exalytics Machine menu. To create or stop a blackout, from the Exalytics System menu, select Control, then select Create Blackout or End Blackout, respectively.
To remove an Exalytics machine target from an Exalytics System, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
On the Exalytics system home page, select an Exalytics machine target.
On the Exalytics machine home page, from the Exalytics Machine menu, select Target Setup, and then Remove. Target...
A warning will be displayed, asking if you want to proceed. Click Remove.
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