Preface

Audience
How this Guide Is Organized
Documentation
Related Publications
Your Comments Are Welcome

This guide presents a general overview of Oracle Enterprise ManagerTM.

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 Server and the administrative tasks you wish to perform. For general information about the Oracle7 Server and how it works, see the Oracle7 Server Concepts Guide. For information about database administration procedures, refer to the Oracle7 Server documentation set. The Oracle7 Server documentation set contains specific and thorough descriptions of the database administration tasks you can perform with Enterprise Manager tools. In addition, the Oracle7 Server documentation set provides recommendations on how to administer your database optimally.

You should also be are 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:

Chapter 1, Overview Of Oracle Enterprise Manager

Describes the overall organization and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager, the Console, and the common services.

Chapter 2, The Console

Describes the layout and use of the Enterprise Manager Console.

Chapter 3, Job and Event Systems

Describes the Job Scheduling and Event Management Systems that execute jobs and monitor events on sites throughout the network.

Chapter 4, DBA Applications

Describes the standard suite of database administration applications that are integrated into the Console.

Chapter 5, Value-Added Applications

Describes the optional Performance Pack monitoring and diagnostic tools, plus other integrated applications.

Documentation

The Oracle Enterprise Manager product documentation includes the following:

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Readme provides important notes regarding the online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking news.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Installation Guide provides information about installing the Oracle Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide provides an overview of the Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide describes the components and features of the Oracle Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Performance Monitoring User's Guide, Oracle Expert User's Guide, and Oracle Trace User's Guide provide information about performance monitoring applications.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Messages Manual describes the Oracle Enterprise Manager error messages and methods for diagnosing the messages.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Developer's Guide provides information on programming external interfaces to Oracle Enterprise Manager.

The guides are available on the Oracle Enterprise Manager CD in HTML format for viewing with a web browser.

In addition to the OEMGR documentation, extensive online help is provided for Oracle Enterprise Manager components.

Related Publications

Important information related to Oracle Enterprise Manager is contained in other Oracle publications.

For general information about the Oracle7 Server and how it works, see the Oracle7 Server Concepts Guide.
For information about administering the Oracle7 Server, see the Oracle7 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 Oracle7 Server, see the Oracle7 Server Application Developer's Guide.
For the procedures for migrating a previous version of Oracle to Oracle7, see the Oracle7 Server Migration.
For information on Oracle's SQL commands and functions, see the Oracle7 Server SQL Reference.
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 Oracle7 Server Messages.
For information about the utilities bundled with the Oracle Server, including Export, Import, and SQL*Loader, refer to the Oracle7 Server Utilities.
For information about distributing and replicating data, refer to Oracle7 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 SQL*Net, see the SQL*Net documentation, which includes Understanding SQL*Net, the Oracle Network Manager Administrator's Guide, the Oracle Names Administrator's Guide, the Oracle Network Products Messages Manual, and the Oracle MultiProtocol Interchange Administrator's Guide.

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 has not been described in the guides.

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

Your Comments Are Welcome

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