Preface

This preface describes the purpose and organization of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide. The preface contains the following information:

Topic	See Page
Purpose of this Guide	viii
Audience	viii
How this Guide Is Organized	ix
Documentation	x
Related Publications	xii

 

Purpose of this Guide

This guide gives a general overview of Oracle® Enterprise Manager.

The Oracle Enterprise Manager provides an integrated solution for managing your heterogeneous environment, with an open, client/server architecture. The client/server architecture, which is both scalable and lightweight, consists of a centralized console, common services, and Intelligent Agents running on the managed nodes. Various applications reside on top of the common services, performing comprehensive system management tasks.

Audience

This guide is intended for those who wish to learn the general concepts of Oracle Enterprise Manager.

You should already be familiar with the Oracle Universal Data Server and the administrative tasks you wish to perform. For general information about the Oracle Server and how it works, see the Oracle Server Concepts Guide. For information about database administration procedures, refer to the Oracle Server documentation set. The Oracle Server documentation set contains specific and thorough descriptions of the database administration tasks you can perform with Oracle Enterprise Manager tools. In addition, the Oracle Server documentation set provides recommendations on how to administer your database optimally.

You should also be familiar with the operation of your specific Microsoft Windows system. Refer to the documentation for your Windows system, if necessary.

How this Guide Is Organized

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapters	Description
Chapter 1, "Overview Of Oracle Enterprise Manager"	This chapter describes the overall organization and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager, its Console, and common services.
Chapter 2, "The Console"	This chapter describes the layout and use of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console.
Chapter 3, "Job and Event Systems"	This chapter describes the Job Scheduling and Event Management systems that execute jobs and monitor events on sites throughout the network.
Chapter 4, "DBA Applications"	This chapter describes the standard suite of database administration applications that are integrated into the Console.
Chapter 5, "System Management Packs and Other Value-Added Applications"	This chapter describes the optional Oracle Diagnostics Pack, Oracle Tuning Pack, Oracle Change Management Pack, and other integrated applications.

 

Documentation

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide is one of several Oracle Enterprise Manager documents. The guides are available on the Oracle Enterprise Manager CD in HTML format for viewing with a web browser. In addition to the Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation, extensive online help is provided for Oracle Enterprise Manager components.

Oracle Enterprise Manager base documentation

• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Readme provides important notes regarding the online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking information.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Installation CD-ROM Insert provides information about installing Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide explains how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager, the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console, common services, and integrated platform tools.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide provides an overview of the Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide explains how to configure Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Developer's Guide gives an overview of developing applications that integrate into Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Messages Manual describes the Oracle Enterprise Manager error messages and methods for diagnosing the messages.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Change Management Pack documentation

• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Change Management Pack Readme provides important notes regarding the Oracle Change Management Pack online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking information.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Getting Started with Oracle Change Management Pack manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Change Management Pack applications.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack documentation

• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack Readme provides important notes regarding the Oracle Diagnostics Pack online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking information.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Getting Started with Oracle Performance Manager and Oracle Capacity Planner manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Performance Manager and Oracle Capacity Planner applications.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Trace User's Guide explains how to use the Oracle Trace application to capture and use historical data to monitor Oracle databases.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Trace Developer's Guide explains how to instrument your application with Oracle Trace routines.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Getting Started with Oracle TopSessions and Oracle Lock Manager manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle TopSessions and Oracle Lock Manager applications.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Tuning Pack documentation

• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Tuning Pack Readme provides important notes regarding the Oracle Tuning Pack online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking information.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Expert User's Guide explains how to use Oracle Expert to optimize the performance of your database environment during initial configuration, as well as during ongoing database operation.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Getting Started with Oracle SQL Analyze manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle SQL Analyze application.
• The Oracle Enterprise Manager Getting Started with Oracle Tablespace Manager manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Tablespace Manager application.

Related Publications

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide refers to important information in the related publications. The books referred to in this guide are listed below:

• For general information about the Oracle Server and how it works, see the Oracle Server Concepts Guide.
• For information about administering the Oracle Server, see the Oracle Server Administrator's Guide.
• For information about administering Oracle Parallel Servers, see the Oracle Parallel Server Support for the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console Guide.
• For information about developing database applications within the Oracle Server, see the Oracle Server Application Developer's Guide.
• For the procedures for migrating a previous version of Oracle to Oracle, see the Oracle Server Migration manual.
• For information on Oracle's SQL commands and functions, see the Oracle Server SQL Reference guide.
• For information about Oracle's procedural language extension to SQL, PL/SQL, see the PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference.
• For information about Oracle messages and codes, refer to the Oracle Server Messages manual.
• For information about the utilities bundled with the Oracle Server, including Export, Import, and SQL*Loader, refer to the Oracle Server Utilities manual.
• For information about distributing and replicating data, refer to Oracle Distributed Systems Volume I: Distributed Data and Volume II: Replicated Data.
• For information specific to the Oracle Server working on your host operating system, see your operating system-specific Oracle documentation (specific book titles vary by operating system) and system release bulletins, if available.
• For information about the Oracle networking system, see your network-specific documentation.

Oracle Corporation also publishes several files that are available on your distribution media. These files are usually named README, RELNOTE, BUGHST, and RESTRICT and have extensions such as .WRI, .DOC, and .TXT. Read these files to learn about changes to the software or documentation that have not been described in the guides.

Note: The exact names and locations of the files mentioned above may vary, depending on your operating system.

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