Introduction to Enterprise Manager Configuration

Once you have installed Enterprise Manager, you may want to:

Create administrators other than the default SYSMAN, for daily administration work: make sure these Administrators reflect your management team, assign them roles/privileges to segregate their responsibilities, and ensure that no one shares an account. There should be no reason to create another Super Administrator account other than SYSMAN.
Create roles for accessing certain targets and for accessing specific management features. Roles are especially useful if there are several administrators that share similar responsibilities.
Create groups, systems, and services to logically organize your targets for effective management.

In addition, after you have installed and performed some basic configuration tasks, you may want to:

Add additional targets to be monitored and administered by Enterprise Manager other than those discovered automatically. This activity may include the following tasks:
- Installing an Oracle Management Agent on the host computers you want to manage.
- Add targets if starting the Oracle Management Agent did not automatically find the targets you want. There are wizards or property pages you must fill out for various target type.
Create Blackouts. Blackouts allow administrators to suspend any data collection on one or more targets, thus allowing administrators to perform scheduled maintenance on targets without having to include these special-case situations in the data analysis.
Set the password and e-mail address for administrator accounts. Each Enterprise Manager administrator can set his own e-mail address.
Customize your interface. This activity may include the following tasks:

Customizing metric columns. Organize the metrics which will appear in the summary of the current values and severities.
Customizing target subtabs. Organize your secondary tabs for easy access to the target categories you may want to access most often.

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