Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Exalogic Managing Machine - Part 1

Dear Readers,

My name is Franz Devantier, creator of this blog.  I am an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP DBA 11g) Security DBA.  I will be sharing with you the basic duties of an Oracle DBA, and also some of the undocumented, and not so well known tasks. 

I will make a deal with you:  If you refer me to a company that needs database support, from a few hours per week to full time, and I am able to sign a contract with them.
Then I will give you 10% of the monthly contract or deal price every month.  When the contract ends, and we re-sign the contract, I will again give you 10% of the monthly contract price.  This will go on until the company no longer employs or contracts me or my agents to look after their databases.
I can do this, because that 10% is my marketing budget.  When we re-sign the contract, in the future, it may depend on you giving the thumbs up again, and that is worth 10% of the monthly contract price, to be given to you as commission.


Exalogic Managing Machine  -  Part 1
The Exalogic Control, enables you to view your Exalogic machine as an appliance.  You can monitor and actively manage the Exalogic hardware and fault management cycle.
The broad categories under Exalogic Management are:
-> Launching the Exalogic Control BUI
-> Navigating to Exalogic Systems
-> Viewing the Exalogic System
-> Viewing the Exalogic Machine Rack
-> Viewing the Photorealistic Representation of the Exalogic Machine
-> Creating and Viewing Exalogic Reports

Launching Exalogic Control BUI
After the Exalogic Control is started, you can access the Exalogic Control Browser User Interface (BUI), using this URL:  http://<EMOC_IP>
-> <EMOC_IP> is the EoIB IP address of the Ops Center Enterprise Controller VM.  This VM is a software component of Exalogic Control.  For more information log into the Exalogic Control BUI as the Exalogic Systems Admin.  You can also find information in the file.  /opt/Exalogic/ecu/config/oc_ec.json.

http://<EMOC_IP> redirects to https://<EMOC_IP>/emoc

Navigating to Exalogic Systems
Once you are in the Exalogic BUI, go to the navigation pane. Under “Assets” select “Exalogic Systems” from the drop down list.



Viewing the Exalogic System
In Exalogic Control BUI there are four tabs on the Center pane.
. Dashboard
. Details
. Controls
. Networks

On the right hand side is the Actions pane.  The actions in the Actions pane are context sensitive to the selected assets on the Navigation pane.  The actions are also based on Roles, to prevent users from carryout actions that they are not authorized to do.

To view a specific Exalogic system in Exalogic Control BUI, you will follow this process.  In the Navigation pane in the Center, move down to Assets, and select “Exalogic Systems” from the drop-down list.   Then you will see a list of the specific Exalogic systems and you can select one of them:
  


After making your selection, there will be five tabs displayed in the Center pane.
. Dashboard
. Details
. Controls
. Networks
. Incidents



You should click on each of the Tabs on the center pane to view information that is contained there.
-> Dashboard:  The Dashboard displays the summary of the Exalogic system, membership graph, as well as the status of the System.
-> Details: the details Tab will display the name of the Exalogic system, the description of the system, the master subnet manager address, the number of racks, the computer nodes, the storage nodes, switches, and the Power Distribution Units (PDU) present in the system.
-> Controls:  The controls tab displays the Exalogic Control Software details such as the name of the software, version number, description, name of the virtual machine, and the server name.
-> Networks: The networks tab will display the infrastructure network table as well as the network connectivity table.
-> Incidents:  The incidents tab displays all the incidents and alerts that have been reported in the Exalogic System.

Franz Devantier,
Need a database health check, or a security audit?
devantierf@gmail.com

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