System: Administration Page

Blackouts

Shows the status of blackouts you created. Blackouts enable you to suspend monitoring on one or more targets to perform maintenance operations.

Click Create to go to the Create Blackout wizard. Click a number link to go to the Blackouts page where you can view the detailed status of the type of blackout you have selected. The Blackouts page also provides a search facility that enables you to find any blackout.

Enables you to access the following pages:

• Execute SQL page:

  You can enter SQL, SQL*Plus or PL/SQL commands, execute them on one or more databases, and interactively view the results. This gives you the opportunity to perform administrative operations on multiple databases within the context of Enterprise Manager.

• Backup Report page:

  Lists the most recent backup for each database. The information is retrieved from the EM repository.

• Alert Log Content page:

  Displays the last 100,000 bytes of the alert log for each database.

Note: The Database Operations section appears If a system contains one or more databases. The links in the section provide access to the pages described above. The pages are launched in the context of the databases in the system.

Provides the following links:

• Top J2EE Applications

  Shows a list of the top 25 OC4J applications running on the application server instance. This page can help you quickly assess which applications are most active and which are using the most system resources.

• Schedule Backup

  Enables you to create an Oracle-suggested backup or a customized backup.

• Perform Recovery

  Enables you to perform an entire database recovery or an object-level recovery.

Shows summary information about hosts and their operating systems, as well as software installations.

Besides the summary information, this section also indicates the following issues if detected:

• Host locations are not found or there are collection problems. When you click on a number link, the Missing Configuration Information page appears, where you can investigate further.

• Software targets have missing inventory. When you click on the number link, the Software Target Without Inventory page appears, where you can investigate further.

Select one of the following deployment types from the View drop-down list to display a corresponding summary table:

• Hardware

  Click the Hosts number in the table to go to the Hardware page, which displays all the hosts of a particular hardware type, and also shows the operating system running on each host.

• Operating Systems

  Click the Hosts number in the table to go to the Operating System page, which displays all the hosts running a particular version of an operating system, and also shows the hardware type of the hosts.

• Database Installations

  Click the Targets number in the table to go to the Target Instances page, which lists the names of the target instances for the database and their associated hosts. Click the Installations number to go to the Installations page, which lists the hosts for the database. Click the Interim Patches Applied link for a list of the unique interim patches for all installations of the database.

• Application Server Installations

  Click the Targets number in the table to go to the Target Instances page, which lists the names of the target instances for the application server and their associated hosts. Click the Installations number to go to the Installations page, which lists the hosts for the application server. Click the Interim Patches Applied link for a list of the unique interim patches for all installations of the application server.

Access

Define or edit user permissions.

Edit System

Add or remove members.

Reports

View, modify, or delete any user-defined report definition.

Storage Details

View storage details of member hosts and hosts associated with the member targets of this target. The graphs provide information about the storage utilization.

Target Properties

Provide optional descriptive attributes that you can associate with any target. They can be used by Enterprise Manager for search, filtering, or classification purposes.