What is the Enterprise Manager?

The Enterprise Manager is the primary administration tool for all the managed servers deployed in your enterprise. Use this tool for administration of servers deployed both in the Data Center and in remote geographical locations (or sites).

A “managed server Server that is managed by the Enterprise Manager application.” is any server that includes the Enterprise Manager Agent Web application installed on every system server that communicates with the Enterprise Manager regarding any configuration changes or alarm messages for the relevant server. software that enables the server to be managed and configured from Enterprise Manager.

The Enterprise Manager is a Java-based web application that runs on an Oracle WebLogic server. The Oracle WebLogic server is installed on the Windows server as part of the Enterprise Manager installation.

The Enterprise Manager application features are available from the System Management Module that allows performing suite-wide system management activities from a single, Web-based application, the Enterprise Manager. screen in the Enterprise Portal web application. The Enterprise Manager application supports these basic administrative functions:

  • Provides a hierarchical view of the Installations (the Installations tree user interface). This user interface uses Site Group, Site, Server, and Server Role nodes (icons) to create a visual representation of your enterprise.

  • Handles configuration settings for all the managed servers in the enterprise. Generally, these configuration settings are either Enterprise-level settings that apply to all managed servers in the enterprise, or server and server role Entity that contains a logical, predefined set of components (system software or certified third-party software) deployed in the Data Center and Site Zones that provide specific functionality for the system. settings that apply to individual managed servers. The Enterprise Manager architecture uses XML to manage the configuration settings.

  • Allows you to configure Custom Data (Attributes) Recording Rules, Centralized Archive Manager (CAM), and Data Sources for managed servers and other applications. Data Sources are entities that provide data to the system. An example of a Data Source is a phone switch or PBX, which provides the data for voice recording. Another example of a Data Source is a LAN (Screen), which provides the data for screen recording.

  • Connects to managed servers using HTTP (or HTTPS) and distributes configuration changes to the servers using a reliable messaging protocol.

  • Monitors the managed servers to detect the installation of any new software on the servers, such as new server roles or components. Also detects the version number of servers, and components installed on the managed servers.

  • Configures alarm behavior and collects alarm summary information from the managed servers.

  • Launches applications on the managed servers that enable you to respond to and acknowledge alarms, and to configure Recorder servers. The two primary applications launched from Enterprise Manager are the Recorder Manager (RM) application and the Enterprise Manager Agent (EMA) application.

When using the Enterprise Manager, do not refresh popup browser windows using either the F5 key or the web browser View, Refresh menu option. The Enterprise Manager includes its own refresh functionality to refresh automatically the popup windows that are launched from Enterprise Manager screens. Enterprise Manager does not support refreshing the popup windows using the manual refresh functionality provided by the web browser.