Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide (Oracle Press) [Paperback]

Michael New (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0071492755 | ISBN-13: 978-0071492751 | Edition: 1

Install and Configure Grid Control to Manage Your Oracle Landscape

Build a robust grid computing infrastructure with guidance from an Oracle expert who developed and taught the Grid Control Deep Dive class to Oracle Consulting. Featuring real-world examples and best practices, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide explains how to reliably and cost-effectively deploy a dynamic Grid Control environment. Learn how to lay the preinstallation groundwork, configure targets for monitoring, create services, implement security, and fine-tune performance. You'll also get full coverage of backup and recovery strategies and high-availability techniques.

• Prepare infrastructure hosts for Grid Control rollout
• Install the Oracle management repository, service, and agents
• Select the Grid Control installation options that fit your needs
• Discover and manage host, database, and application server targets
• Set target metrics and policies according to best practices
• Optimize performance and availability of your Grid Control framework
• Secure the Grid Control framework to protect data transmitted between components

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About the Author

Michael New is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA and senior information systems architect with 17 years of experience in the software industry. After receiving his B.S. from M.I.T. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, he worked for six years as a software engineer, principally on the GPS satellite program at Rockwell. For the past 11 years, Michael has worked as an Oracle core and Oracle Applications DBA. He began as a full-time DBA, moved into consulting with an Oracle partner, then served as a Technical Manager for Oracle Consulting before launching his own firm, New DB Solutions. Michael has implemented the full array of Oracle products for clients in many industries, including the Oracle E-Business Suite, RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, Application Server, and Grid Control (in which he is a recognized authority). Michael has authored several white papers on database administration, has been a presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, and was a technical editor for a McGraw-Hill Professional book on Oracle Database 10g. Michael lives in New York City with his five-year-old daughter, Leah. You can reach him at Michael@ NewDBsolutions.com or through his company’s web site, www.NewDBsolutions.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071492755
• ISBN-13: 978-0071492751
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #798,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book to have, March 3, 2009

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This review is from: Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide (Oracle Press) (Paperback)

I have used Grid Control for the last 4 years for database management and performance monitoring. There is a lot of information spread across internet and Oracle OTN website, so every time I had a problem I would Google for help. Now that I have the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide, it has become my first resource to search for information related to Grid Control. The Grid Control architecture covered in the book is just right for DBAs to understand the whole picture of the product suite. It also details the Oracle version confusion. After the brief architecture overview, the book describes step by step the installation and configuration including screenshots, tips and workarounds. If you are a small shop, you find your procedure to install OMR and OMS in the same server. If you are using Grid Control to manage a large data center, you find your OEM management solution to the High Available Cluster OMS with RAC database as OMR in the book too. The tuning, backup and recovery, security, and high availability and disaster recovery advanced topics for Grid control are also covered in the book. I recommend this book to anyone who is new to Grid Control as a good starting book. Also it will be a good reference book for those who are using Grid Control in their daily job.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best How-To Guide for Grid Control, March 4, 2009

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This review is from: Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide (Oracle Press) (Paperback)

I got this guide about 6 weeks ago. It has already become an invaluable resource for me. One of the things I was trying to do was to architect my Grid Control in such a way that it provided High Availability. I read the docs and looked at metalink, but the information was scattered throughout the web. Instead, the author clearly indicates the steps needed to install Grid Control on a RAC database as well as how to use load balancers in front of them for the Oracle agents to communicate instead of with the OMS's directly. It was all right there in the guide in chapter 4. Who knew that Grid Control supported Fast Connection Failover via the emoms.properties file? (i.e em.FastConnectionFailover=true)

The author discusses about every possible configuration for Grid Control as well as how to setup the monitoring and metrics. He then gets into security, auditing, and day-to-day maintenance and administration of GC. I don't know what I would do without this guide. It fills in all the gaps beautifully.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fills in the gaps, January 6, 2009

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James J. Rawlings "jimbo" (Earlysville, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide (Oracle Press) (Paperback)

Been running OEM 10g GC for over the past 2 years for the control and monitoring of 30+ database servers and 60+ instances. The product works well, but finding a single source regarding proper tuning and maintenance has usually been painful - even with MetaLink.

The book covers quite a few gaps along with both common and uncommon gotchas encountered with the workarounds needed. Already dog-eared, so it is a keeper until outdated.