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The Console

This chapter describes the basic components of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console and how they are organized.

The following topics will be covered:

Topic	See Page
Console Graphical User Interface	2-2
Console Windows	2-3

 

Console Graphical User Interface

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Console has a graphical user interface that provides menus, toolbars, launch palettes, and the framework to allow access to Oracle tools, plus utilities available through other vendors. The menus, toolbars, and palettes are context-sensitive.

Item	Function
Menus	The Console menus primarily manipulate the Navigator, Map, Job, and Event systems and the database administration (DBA) applications.
Toolbars	The toolbars provide graphic icons that represent most of the menu items.  When you move the mouse cursor over an icon, the description of the icon's function displays in the status bar at the bottom of the Console.
Palettes	The Tools palette is used to launch applications and utilities and contains graphic representations of the Tools menu items.  When you move the mouse cursor over an icon, the description of the icon's function displays in the status bar at the bottom of the Console.

 

Console Windows

The Console contains four windows that provide a general view of the system being managed and an interface to the Oracle Enterprise Manager common services. These windows are the Navigator window, the Map window, the Job Scheduling window, and the Event Management window.

This section contains the following topics:

Topic	See Page
Navigator Window	2-3
Map Window	2-4
Job Scheduling Window	2-5
Event Management Window	2-6

 

Navigator Window

The Navigator window provides the following functionality:

• Discovery of objects in the network system
• A view of the objects in a network environment and the relationships among them
• A way of accessing the objects and administering tasks on them
• The source for dragging and dropping objects to create maps
• A place from which to launch DBA tools and other integrated applications

The Navigator discovers objects in a network and displays them in a tree list which provides a direct view of the objects in a hierarchical view. The objects include databases, user-defined groups, listeners, and nodes and the objects that they contain.

Note: For detailed information on the Navigator window, refer to Chapter 2, "Navigator," of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide.

Map Window

The Map window provides a customized, graphical representation of key objects created by an administrator to manage and monitor a group of related objects in the system.

With the Map system, you can create, save, modify, and recall views of the network. Objects can be grouped together based on any criteria, simplifying all operations performed on the group members. To create the various groups that you want to monitor, you simply drag objects from the Navigator and drop them in Map view.

The map is especially useful for environments with very many databases and is also used to visually represent problems detected by the Event Management system.

Note: For detailed information on the Map window, refer to the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide.

Job Scheduling Window

The Job Scheduling window is the user interface to the Job Scheduling system, which enables you to automate repetitive tasks and provides the kind of "lights out" management which is vital in a large, distributed environment.

The Job Scheduling system allows you to manage tasks among the databases, groups, listeners, and nodes that you are administering. Using the menus, property sheets, and dialog boxes of the Job Scheduling window, you can execute, schedule, or cancel a job, view its status, and review historical information about jobs.

Jobs can be administered immediately, scheduled once, or scheduled for various times, such as daily or weekly, and at single or multiple destinations. Using the Job Scheduling system, you can also create and manage job scripts.

The Job window contains the following tabbed pages of information:

Job Window Pages	Function
Active Jobs	The Active Jobs page contains a summary of the active jobs on the network that are currently scheduled or running. These are jobs that you have submitted to the job system and are not yet completed.
Job History	The Job History page contains a list of previous job activities, such as multiple executions of a job. These are jobs that have been submitted to an agent and have executed successfully or unsuccessfully. This page also lists deleted jobs.
Job Library	The Job Library page contains a list of the jobs that you have created and saved. These jobs can be submitted to the job system at a later date. This is useful if you want to submit the same job at different times.

 

Note: See Chapter 3 of this guide, "Job and Event Systems," for more information on the Job Scheduling system. For detailed information on the Job window, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide.

Event Management Window

In the Event Management window, you can create and register event sets, modify or cancel registrations, view the status of services being monitored, get information about events that have occurred, and further manage event information.

With the Event Management window you can choose to have the events of interest represented graphically on the Console when they are detected. The system can also notify you through e-mail or page. The Oracle Enterprise Manager console provides support for paging and e-mail when a pre-registered event is encountered. The console currently supports alphanumeric paging systems that use the TAP (Telocator Alphanumeric Paging) protocol for automatic paging and both SMTP and MAPI for e-mail notification.

When registering an event set, you can also create a job that you specify to be run to automatically fix the problem.

The Event window contains the following tabbed pages of information:

Event Window Pages	Function
Outstanding Events	The Outstanding Events page displays event sets that have been applied and have occurred.
Registrations	The Registrations page displays the event sets that have been applied and registered to monitor events on any network objects.
Event Set Library	The Event Set Library page displays event sets that you have created as well as pre-defined event sets that have been installed in Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Event History	The Event History page displays a history of events that have occurred and have been acknowledged by an administrator or cleared by an agent.

 

Note: See Chapter 3, "Job and Event Systems" for more information on the Event Management System. For detailed information on the Event menu and window, refer to Chapter 5, "Event Management," in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide.

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