2 WebLogic Suite Options

Centralized management console

Provide administrators managing SOA environments with a consolidated browser-based view of the entire enterprise, thereby enabling them to monitor and manage all of their components from a central location.

Discovery and service modeling

Provide discovery of the following:

• Oracle BPEL processes deployed to the Oracle BPEL Process Manager (BPEL Process Manager) server and the dependent partner links.

• Oracle Service Bus-based business and proxy services.

• Service modeling offers out-of-the-box automated system modeling capabilities for the SOA infrastructure.

Run-time governance

Define SOAP tests to measure and record availability and performance of partner links (or any Web service) and business/proxy services for historical trending, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis purposes. Also provides an error hospital of process instances with drilldowns into instance details.

Infrastructure management

Monitor the availability and performance of the SOA infrastructure components. Both current and historic availability of targets (such as BPEL Process Manager or Oracle Service Bus) are recorded for troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Configuration management

Collect configuration information for the BPEL Process Manager server/domains/processes and Oracle Service Bus. The parameters can be refreshed, saved, or compared with another target. Different versions of the same target can also be compared.

Deployment automation

Automate the deployment of the following:

• BPEL suitcases to one or more BPEL Process Manager targets.

• Oracle Service Bus resources from one domain to another.

Adapter metrics

Provide throughput and error metrics for different adapters in graphical format.

Business-IT alignment

Enables you to consolidate their IT and business management tools into a unified system. BAM-EM integration unites business KPIs and system metrics in one system for correlation and trending.

Service level management

Enables you to monitor services from the end-user's perspective using service tests or synthetic transactions, model relationships between services and underlying IT components, and report on achieved service levels.

Composite application monitoring and modeling

Enables you to manage your SOA solutions by leveraging a model-driven top-down approach within your development, quality assurance (QA), staging, and production environments. Business application owners and operational staff can automatically discover your BPEL work flows and correlate them with the underlying Web services; Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs); and back-end Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) resources through detailed modeling and drilling down directly into the performance metrics at the component level.

Historical analysis and reporting

Store the collected metric and configuration data in a central repository, thereby enabling administrators to analyze metrics through various historical views and facilitate strategic trend analysis and reporting.

Automatic modeling and discovery

Automatically model and discover management applications displaying multiple views of the application, including the topology, function/flow, and architectural views.

Contextual visibility into SOA, and J2EE metrics

Provide drill-down contextual visibility into SOA, and J2EE metrics, enabling administrators to both quickly understand and analyze their application to identify potential bottlenecks and performance trends, as well as prepare for capacity changes and overall application management.

Transaction tracing

Trace transactions for SOA, and J2EE metrics both vertically through the application stack as well as horizontally across containers.

Metrics visibility at any layer

Automatically generate customized dashboards and views to view metrics at any layer in the application through graphs and tables.

Service-level objectives

Provide service-level objectives (SLOs) at any point within the architecture for indicators and alerts.

Patching

• Provide end-to-end patching of the Oracle Application Server across a wide range of product patches and customer environments.

• Provide automated Linux, Solaris, and Windows host patching and integration with an Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN).

• Receive alerts to critical patches that need to be applied through Critical Patch Advisories, and automate the downloading and deployment of patches through the Critical Patch Facility.

Provisioning

• Create and maintain a library of reference software images.

• Deploy operating systems and Oracle Fusion Middleware software to bare metal servers.

• Create a provisions standard, or "gold" image of Oracle Fusion Middleware software.

• Leverage out-of-box and custom reporting on provisioning and deployments.

Cloning

• Clone Oracle Application Server and SOA applications.

• Extend Oracle Application Server DCM Managed Clusters and Oracle Application Server clusters.

Security management

• Ensure system security and adherence to operation security standards.

• Receive notifications for security policies, including Enterprise Security Advisories.

Middleware and host configuration management

Provide hardware and software configuration data collection, search, comparison, historical change tracking, and analytical reporting.

Patching

Include Critical Patch Advisories, which alert you to critical patches you need to apply.

Note: This feature does not apply to Oracle WebLogic Server.

Policy and security management

• Ensure consistency of deployments, system security, and adherence to operation standards.

• Receive policy violation notifications, including Enterprise Security Advisories.

• Utilize out-of-box policies or generate user-defined policies to meet your specific operational best practices, industry requirements, or regulatory compliance requirements.

Policy groups

• Provide a structured collection of security configuration rules against which you can measure or judge targets.

• Create your own policy groups to specifically address your operational processes and best practice needs. Choose from the library of out-of-box or user-defined policies to group policies to meet your specific needs. This capability enables you to create, edit, and delete policy groups.

This feature is accessible from the Policy Group sub-tab under the Compliance tab.

Deployments/installations, including patch-level

Understand what you have by utilizing the Configuration Management pack for discovery, asset tracking of all hardware and software configurations, configuration change tracking, and maintenance of relationships.

Note: This feature does not apply to the Oracle WebLogic Server.

Client System Analyzer

Enable your system administrators to collect and analyze configuration information and data from end-user systems. Using the pre-installed application enables you to collect end-user configuration information without setting up a separate Web server. The Management Agents collect, analyze, and upload the end-user configuration information to the Management Repository.

Security at a glance

From a single view, monitor and standardize compliance to security standards across your enterprise. View compliance scores and track trends over time to understand improvements in compliance or deviations. Drill down into individual targets to understand policy violations and closed loop remediation.

Note: This feature does not apply to the WebLogic Server.

Real-time configuration change detection

Provide real-time configuration change detection and automation of compliance frameworks, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.

Management Pack for WebLogic Server solves this need with a centralized Configuration Change Console that includes out-of-box and user-defined policies and controls.

Application configuration management

Provide a comprehensive solution for managing the application infrastructure underlying mission-critical applications. The Application Configuration Console provides an automated "gold master" methodology to application infrastructure management providing IT infrastructure personnel with the ability to:

• Capture the current state of configuration settings for IT assets.

• Monitor these IT assets for changes.

• Automate processes for provisioning configuration changes along with setting up new environments throughout the application life cycle—from development through testing, then production.

Automatic modeling and discovery

Automatically model and discover management applications displaying multiple views of the application, including the topology, function/flow, and architectural views.

Contextual visibility into Java EE and Web Service metrics

Provide drill-down contextual visibility into Java EE and Web Service metrics, enabling administrators to both quickly understand and analyze their application to identify potential bottlenecks and performance trends, as well as prepare for capacity changes and overall application management.

Transaction tracing

Trace transactions for Java EE metrics both vertically through the application stack as well as horizontally across containers.

Metrics visibility for any layer

Automatically generate customized dashboards and views to view metrics at any layer in the application through graphs and tables.

Service-level objectives

Provide service-level objectives (SLOs) at any point within the architecture for indicators and alerts.