Lots of interest in new book

Friends, I have received lots of interest in my new upcoming book (http://www.rampant-books.com/book_1001_advanced_techniques_oem_grid_control.htm), thanks for that.
Here are some of your comments, thanks a lot guys. The book is to be published this Fall 2010.

That is a fantastic news Porus. I will definitely read this book. Do let me
know once it is out in the market. All the very best to your book.

Congrats Sir, will spread the mail around to all my tech staffs.

Congradulations!!! I will look for it.

Congratz on publishing the new book Porus.

Congratulations on the new book. I am wondering if there is a way to get an advance copy of this book either in electronic format or in physical format? I am very interested in this subject.

Porus - Congratulations on completing the book. I will like to get a copy for myself once available in the market.

Well done on putting the book together.I will keep an eye out for it downunder in Australia.

Congratulations on the publication of your New Book!

Eager enough to buy your book on Grid Control as we have installed 10g Grid Control in our environment and I'm sure it'll be boon to us.

Congratulations Porus. Will definetly by it! I with you to finish this book with success.

Congrats !!! Looking a lot more like this....

Congratulations !I am sure that will help lots of DBAs to upgrade from DBA v1.0 to DBA v2.0 in Oracle's terminology.

Good Luck with this.

Congratulations big achievement

Went through the details of your book, it's really a comprehensive guide for the GC guys. Best of luck for your efforts & continue with you endeavour.

Good Luck Porus, would be an interesting read.

My New Grid Control book

Friends,

I am pleased to announce that my new book "Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control: Advanced OEM Techniques for the Real World" is getting ready to be published soon (Fall 2010) by Rampant Techpress:

http://www.rampant-books.com/book_1001_advanced_techniques_oem_grid_control.htm

Please do recommend to all your friends and colleagues, it is a great handy book if you really want to make best use of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

I have based it on a lot of practical experience and I am sure it will be useful to a lot of you.

Regards,

Porus Homi Havewala
(Oracle ACE Director).

EM for Active-Passive environments

A DBA wrote to me and said he has some issues in seeing the targets in a 2 node active
passive cluster using SUN cluster. My advice to him was as follows:

Refer to the Oracle documention chapter "Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager for Active and Passive Environments"

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B16240_01/doc/em.102/e10954/actpass_env.htm#sthref274

As per this, the EM agent must be deployed to each physical node as well as to the logical IP address. You have obviously not done that. Setting up in an active-passive environment is more involved as compared to setting up in an active-active cluster (Oracle RAC!)

Reconfiguring Database Control using EMCA

Someone asked me a question. He wanted to restore a database to a new host. The database included the Enterprise Manager Repository. Using RMAN, he restored the database to the new host, but was unable to start Enterprise Manager on the new host.

My answer:

I presume you are talking of Enterprise Manager Database Control and its repository, and not Grid Control.

Since you have restored the database to a new server, you must manually configure database control using EMCA. This is because available ports etc may be different on different servers and Oracle cant use the same settings, also the Database control configuration files are actually sitting outside the db in the oracle home. So when you copy the database, you are not copying the home and that info is lost, so you must reconfigure database control on the new host.

Please refer to the Oracle documentation at :
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B283...ca.htm#BABDEHCE

This will tell you how to use EMCA to config database control. You may need to deconfig first to clear up any existing repository.

Easy Disaster Proof Production : My New OTN Article published

I am pleased to announce that in the first month of the new year 2010, a brand-new technical article of mine has been published on the Oracle Technology Network :

Easy Disaster Proof Production with Grid Control
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/havewala-easydr.html

The article, based on personal real-life experience, explains how the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control for Data Guard setup, management (including switchover or failover), and monitoring can save a lot of time and resources.

Please read, enjoy and recommend to your friends and colleagues.

A Happy New Year 2010 to all of you. All the Best for the New Year.

Regards,

Porus Homi Havewala
(Oracle ACE Director).

Review of new Middleware Management with Grid Control book

I was recently requested to review a new book "Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5" by Debu Panda and Arvind Maheshwari . I received a review e-copy of the book and was pleasantly surprised when I went through the book, it is a very good introduction for all the people who are working with Oracle Fusion Middleware and want to use Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to manage most of the stack.

After a brief explanation of installing Grid Control, including monitoring basics, the book delves into monitoring and managing Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Forms and Reports Services and Applications. It then also looks at the monitoring of BPEL process manager and BPEL processes, the monitoring of the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) and OSB services, managing the Identity Manager Suite, the Coherence Cluster, and also non-Oracle middleware like Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, IBM Websphere, and Microsoft middleware.

The book also has a chapter on the new Application Diagnostics for Java (AD4J) product and Composite Application Monitor and Modeler, and how to use these products to diagnose Java applications, and monitor and diagnose composite applications respectively.

As a surprise bonus, the book has a very interesting chapter on Building your own Monitoring Plug-in. The Sun Java Web server is used as an example, and the steps to build a simple monitoring plug-in for this web server are outlined. This is followed by another good chapter on Best Practices for Managing Middleware Components using Enterprise Manager.

All in all, a very useful book for Middleware administrators who are using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, or for those who want to know how Enterprise Manager is handling the monitoring and management of such products. Well done and a good practical guide.

1.1.0 version of EM widgets

Rejeeb Mohammed, User Experience Designer, EM User Experience Team writes:

We've released the 1.1.0 version of EM widgets.This build has few new features (including the much-requested option to customize database targets in the High-Load Databases widget) and a number of bug fixes.To upgrade to the newer version either use the auto update feature given in the widgets or reinstall the widget from OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/widgets/index.html

Thanks,
Rejeeb
User Experience Designer
EM User Experience Team