Grid Control Architecture :
- Explain the components of Grid Control Architecture
- Discuss targets that can be managed using Grid Control
- Communication protocols between the components
- Identify the built-in security features of Grid Control
- Discuss the importance of HA and Grid Control infrastructure
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Grid Control Deployment :
- Discuss hardware requirements and pre-requisites
- Identify installation options for Management Repository
- Agent deployment
- Time zone considerations
- Default port assignments and how to change them
- Discuss post-installation configuration
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Grid Control Security :
- Configure Firewalls for Grid Control
- Explain OMS Locking and Agent Securing
- Configuring Grid Control for use with Enterprise User Security
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Monitoring Grid Control :
- Monitoring the availability of Grid Control components
- Identifying log and trace files
- Identifying startup and shutdown procedures for Grid Control components
- Determine best practices for keeping the Grid Control healthy
- Monitor EM Website Web Application
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Configring Grid Control :
- Creating Roles
- Creating Administrators
- Granting Privileges
- Setting up Preferred Credentials
- Discuss EMCLI
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Common Managed Targets - Hosts :
- Monitoring host availability and resource usage
- Using Remote File Editor
- Viewing Storage Details for host
- Validating host metrics
- Evaluate CPU Utilization for a host
- Explain host management and monitoring features
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Common Managed Targets - Oracle Databases :
- Grid Control –vs- Database Control
- Managing Oracle databases
- Understanding Adaptive Metric Baselines
- Examine Database Administration features
- Examine Database Maintenance features
- Examine Performance Management features
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Common Managed Targets - Oracle Application Servers :
- Application availability monitoring
- Monitoring performance of J2EE applications
- Diagnosing J2EE application performance problems
- Stopping and restarting application server components
- Explain Application Server performance monitoring features
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Monitoring the Data Center:
- Understanding out-of-the-box monitoring features
- Changing metric settings
- Creating Monitoring Templates
- Setting up email notification for alerts
- Creating User-Defined Metrics
- Defining Notification Schedules
- Defining Corrective Actions
- Creating Blackouts
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Groups :
- Understanding the use of groups
- Defining Groups
- Managing and Monitoring Groups
- Using Groups in Notification Rules
- Configuring notification for administrators
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Systems & Services:
- Understanding and defining Systems
- Defining Topology relationships
- Viewing System Topologies
- Creating a service based on a system
- Defining and monitoring the availability of a service
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Job system:
- Creating Job in Grid Control
- Using Job Notification
- Creating Multi-task Jobs
- Viewing Rollup of Job Activity
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Configuration Management :
- Understanding enterprise deployment
- Searching and comparing hosts
- Comparing database configurations
- Examining initialization parameters
- Managing Policies
- Discuss Policy Violations
- Discuss Client System Analyzer
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Information Publisher :
- Viewing out-of-the-box reports
- Customizing out-of-the-box reports
- Granting privileges of the reports
- Using the management repository and baseline view
- Scheduling reports that be e-mailed
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Management Plug-ins :
- Understanding out-of-the-box monitoring features
- Discuss benefits of managing 3rd-party components with Grid Control
- Viewing list of non-oracle middleware targets and their health
- Monitoring performance of J2EE applications
- Understanding plug-in deployment mechanism
- Understanding how to create custom management plug-ins
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