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Web Application Home Page

Use the Web Application Home Page to get an overview of the availability, and performance of your Web application, from the underlying applications and components to the response time experienced by your Web application users.

This page contains the following sections:

Section

Description

General

In this section, you can:

  • Get current availability status and availability (%) over the last 24 hours.

  • Get a quick overview of the performance and usage of the Web application as indicated by the corresponding status icons. If either of the icons are red, it indicates that there are performance or usage issues.

  • Monitor actual service levels and see whether or not they meet expected service levels.

  • Black out the service in order to perform maintenance.

  • Drill down to the availability and service level statistics. The Service Level Details page displays the overall service level as well as any violations. The Availability History page displays availability of the Web application along with the availability history of the constitutents that are used to compute its availability.

  • View a list of pending changes that have been submitted but not applied. All changes made to a Web application such as addition / deletion of beacons, key tests, etc that are still pending are listed here. Refer to the Pending Changes page for details.
Performance and Usage

In this section you can view the performance and usage charts for this Web application. These charts show the threshold values of the performance and usage metrics. Using this information, you can correlate performance with usage. For example if the usage is high, the performance may go down.

Notes:

  • Usage is represented as a bar chart.

  • The metric displayed in the chart can be changed in the Performance Metrics and Usage Metrics pages.

Key Test Summary

In this section you can:

  • View a summary list of all the key tests that have been defined for the Web application.

  • See the current status of each key test and drill down to the Status History page for the service test.

  • If the Web application is detected to be unavailable, the tests that are not available are displayed. You can drill down to the Status History page to view the details of the test.

Key Component Summary

In this section you can:

  • Drill down to the System Home page and the Topology page.

  • View the current status of the key components that host the service and drill down to the Key Component Status page.

  • See the summary of alerts across these components and drill down Critical and Warning Alert pages.

All Service Alerts

In this section you can view all the service alerts. You can select the following options:

  • All Service Alerts - Shows a list of all performance and usage alerts. This does not include the key test alerts.

  • Performance Alerts - Shows a list of all the performance alerts.

  • Usage Alerts - Shows a list of all usage alerts.

  • Key Test Alerts - Shows a list of all key test alerts.

  • All Test Alerts - Shows a list of all alerts including the key test alerts.

  • System Alerts - Shows a l ist of alerts for all system components.

Root Cause Analysis

If your Web application has a Down status (is not available), this page will display the Possible Causes of Service Failure table. Causes of failure may be either key components of the system on which the service runs, or another service. Timestamp information is given for each error message, along with target name and type.

Note: The Root Cause Analysis table provides information regarding system based services only. Refer to About Root Cause Analysis for more information.

Related Links

Click on any of the related links to gather additional information about the service. The highlights are: 

Client Configurations

Shows a list of all the client configurations collected by the Oracle Client System Analyzer.

Edit Service Level Rule Service Level Rules are used to measure the quality of service where you can define the Expected / Actual Service Level and Availability and Performance criteria here. This option allows you to edit the service level rule.
Alert History Shows the chronological history of an alert.  
Reports Provides access to reports that have been defined within the Enterprise Manager environment.
All Metrics Lists all the metrics associated with this service. By selecting a metric, you can determine whether thresholds have been defined for a particular metric.

Blackouts

Displays a list of the blackouts that are currently scheduled or in progress for the current database.

Access

Allows you to define users and roles.

Past Changes

Shows the past history of all changes submitted by the user to the beacon. The Past Changes page shows the historical information of all actions from the time the Web application was created. This includes information regarding the user who made the change, tests and beacons that were affected due to the change etc.

Metric and Policy Settings

Starting point for customizing metric threshold settings, policy settings, and collection settings. Enables you to save monitoring settings of a target to a template and apply monitoring settings in a template to a target.

Monitoring Configuration Lists all the options that can be used to configure a service.
Metric Baselines

Enables you to create a static or moving-window baseline, which is a named period of time associated with a target and is used as a reference for evaluating target performance.

Related Topics

About Web Application Management

About Root Cause Analysis

About Services

About Alerts

Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap