Database Support: Exalogic Managing Machine

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Exalogic Managing Machine - Part 3

Viewing Exalogic System Information

We have navigated to the Exalogic systems view, and from that pane in the center of the page we are now going to click on the Details tab.

On the details tab, you will be able to view the following information about your Exalogic System:

. Machine Name

. Description

. Model

. Number of Racks

. Number of compute nodes

. Number of storage nodes

. Number switches

. Number of power distribution units

. Number of fabrics

You may also see information about the Master Subnet Manager.

In the Tags pane on the right hand side, you will see details on the Tags, with their respective values. There is also a facility to search for a specific Tag.

Viewing Exalogic Control Information

To view the Controls information in Exalogic Control, you can click on the Controls Tab on the center pane. You will see information there about:

. Software name of Exalogic software components.

. Version of these software components.

. Description of these software components.

. Names of the virtual machines that are hosting the Exalogic components.

. Names of the Oracle VM (OVM) servers that are hosting these virtual machines.

You can double click on any of the Exalogic components in the table to view the dashboard for that component. This table is useful in helping to identify where the Exalogic Control Software components are running in your Exalogic machine. There is a refresh icon, above the list on the right hand side, if required.

Viewing Infrastructure Networks

You can also click on the Networks tab to view information abut the infrastructure networks and about Network connectivity. There is a lot of information provided. At the top is a table containing the data for the Infrastructure Networks. At the bottom is the table for Network connectivity, which also provides a lot of information.