May 25

OCM 11g Preparation - Create notifications

This topic is a complement for the last one. There is no reason of creating alert without notifications. Nobody keep looking the EM Panel fulltime. So, if you create an alert but does not notify anyone, it will be probably too late when you realise the problem is there. For this topic, you must know how …

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May 25

OCM 11g Preparation - Create and monitor alerts

In this chapter you must know how to configure Metric Thresholds. Each target has a screen to configure all of them in one place. It's a menu item called "Metric and Policy Settings". However, you can also define in metrics in other places. E.g: If you need to define the Used% for tablespace USERS, you …

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May 25

OCM 11g Preparation - Create and manage jobs

Do not confuse this topic with the "Create Scheduler jobs" (DBMS_SCHEDULER). And off course, jobs here is not the old legacy DBMS_JOBS. Jobs here is the EM Grid Control jobs that you can configure, like running an OS script in any monitored hosts. Jobs are great when you want to do the same tasks on …

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May 20

OCM 11g Preparation - Use Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant(EMCA) utility

So this topic is very very important. Why? Because EM DB Control can help you in many of the exam tasks if there is no constraint. And remember, time here is better than money, time is passing. If the exam requests you to create an EM DB Control and you fail, you won't score in this item, …

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May 15

OCM 11g Preparation - Use Grid Infrastructure to manage oracle databases and other resources

In this topic we are not talking about grid or Oracle RAC yet, but this item is here. So, having proficiency in using the GI to manage a database (and we are still talking about standalone server) means to me "Oracle Restart". When installing grid infrastructure for a standalone, we get some utilities to set up and manage the …

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