Thursday, May 30, 2013

Exalogic Managing Machine - Part 2

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 2
Viewing System Summary, Membership Graph, and Status
Ok, so you have clicked on the Dashboard tab on the center pane, and you can see the following information about your Exalogic machine.
-> System Summary
-> Membership Graph
-> System Status




System Summary Section
The summary section is also the top section, or at the top of the page.  You will see the name of the Exalogic machine.  Also in this section you will see the description of name of the system identifier.  The number of racks that are part of the system.  On the right hand side is a summary of the number of unassigned incidents.  There are three unassigned incident icons which represent: Critical incidents(Red), Warning incidents(Amber), and information incidents(Blue).  These incidents originate from all the assets that belong to the Exalogic racks.

Membership Graph Section
The membership graph section or the middle section displays the Exalogic system as a hierarchy of its components.  It shows the relationship between the Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Manager, the physical InfiniBand fabric, and the hardware that is stored in the rack.  InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link that is used in high performance computing and enterprise data centers, and also in the Exalogic Elastic Cloud System.  You can navigate to any asset by double clicking on the asset in the membership graph.

With the controls on the top right of the graph pane, you can change the view of the graph to either a horizontal or a vertical orientation.  You can refresh the view by clicking on the refresh Icon for the web page.  There is also a control to change the depth of the graph or the size of the images, ie either bigger or smaller.

System Status Section
The bottom section or pane is the System Status Section.   Here is a display of the total unassigned incidents in chart format on the left hand side.  On the right hand side is a listing of the recent incidents encountered by the Exalogic system.  This is listed in table format, with the following columns:
->Severity:  The severity column displays the severity of the incident, with Blue, amber, and red icons.
-> State:  This column displays the state of the incident.
-> ID: This column displays the incident ID, for example ‘13003’.
-> Description: This will give you a description of the incident.
-> Source: This will display the source of the incident
-> Owner: This displays the name of the owner, who reported the incident.
-> Creation Date: This column displays the date on which the incident was created.

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

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