2 Options, Independent License Offerings, and Packs

2.1.1 Oracle Identity Management Option

Oracle Identity Management is an integrated infrastructure that provides distributed security services for Oracle products and the enterprise. The Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure is described in "Oracle Identity Management" in Chapter 1.

The Oracle Identity Management option can be purchased in addition to Oracle Application Server Standard Edition. Oracle Identity Management is included with Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition.

2.1.2 Oracle BPEL Process Manager Option

Oracle BPEL Process Manager enables enterprises to model, deploy, and manage BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) processes. It includes a BPEL business process modeler, a scalable BPEL runtime engine, an extensible WSDL binding framework, and a monitoring console.

The Oracle BPEL Process Manager option can be purchased in addition to Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition.

2.2.1 Oracle TopLink

Oracle TopLink can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle TopLink is also included in all of the Oracle Application Server editions.

When you license Oracle TopLink separately, the license includes Oracle TopLink Mapping Workbench. It does not include Oracle JDeveloper.

2.2.2 Oracle BPEL Process Manager

Oracle BPEL Process Manager can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition.

Please refer to the "Oracle Application Server Options" section for more information on Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

2.2.3 Oracle Portal

Oracle Portal can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle Portal is also included in Oracle Application Server Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.

When you license it independently, the Oracle Portal offering includes all of the Oracle Application Server Java Edition components and features, plus Oracle Application Server Portal, Oracle Ultra Search, PL/SQL Server Pages, Oracle Content Management SDK, Oracle UDDI Registry, and Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant. Restrictions to these features are outlined later in this section.

In order to use the Oracle Portal offering, you must separately license the Oracle Database (any edition).

2.2.4 Oracle Identity Management

Oracle Identity Management can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle Identity Management is also included in Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition, and it can be licensed as an option for Oracle Application Server Standard Edition.

The Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure is described in "Oracle Identity Management" in Chapter 1.

In order to use the Oracle Identity Management offering, you must separately license the Oracle Database (any edition).

2.2.5 Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle Business Intelligence can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle Business Intelligence is also included in Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition.

When you license it independently, Oracle Business Intelligence includes Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus, Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer, Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlet Provider, Oracle Business Intelligence Beans, Oracle Reports Services, Oracle Spreadsheet Add-in, Oracle Data Miner, Oracle Internet Developer Suite, and Oracle Application Server Portal.

In order to use the Oracle Business Intelligence offering, you must separately license Oracle Database Standard Edition (for use with Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Relational) or Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and the Oracle OLAP option (for use with Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer OLAP).

2.2.6 Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle Forms is not included in any of the Oracle Application Server editions for Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2).

When you license it independently, Oracle Forms includes Oracle Forms, Forms Servlet, Forms client applet, Forms listener servlet, Forms Runtime, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control.

2.2.7 Oracle Integration

Oracle Integration can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle Integration is also included in Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition.

Oracle Integration includes Oracle Application Server Integration InterConnect and Oracle Application Server Integration B2B.

In order to use the Oracle Integration offering, you must separately license the Oracle Database (any edition).

2.3.1 Enabling and Disabling the Oracle Management Packs for Oracle Application Server

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g automatically enables the features included in both of the Oracle Management Packs for Oracle Application Server. If you have not licensed one or both of the packs, you can disable the functionality for each pack in the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Console with the following procedure.

1. Ensure that the version of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control that you are using is at least release 10.1.0.3.0.

   To check your Grid Control version, log in to the Grid Control Console and click About Oracle Enterprise Manager at the bottom of any page. If the version is pre-10.1.0.3.0, apply the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g release 10.1.0.3.0 patchset, which is available from OracleMetaLink. The patchset readme contains the installation instructions.

2. Log in to the Grid Control Console as a super administrator.

3. Click Setup in the upper right corner of the page.

4. Click Management Pack Access on the left side of the page.

   The Management Pack Access page contains a list of the available packs and a brief description of each pack.

5. For each pack, choose either the Grant Access or the Remove Access option. The default option for each pack is Grant Access.

   
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6. Click Apply.

After performing these steps, any administrator who logs into the Grid Control Console will not be able to access Management Pack functionality that you have disabled. When you disable a Management Pack, links that are part of that pack will either be disabled or, when a link is clicked, a message will indicate that the associated pack is not licensed for use.

2.3.2 Oracle Application Server Diagnostics Pack

The Oracle Application Server Diagnostics Pack ensures high availability of mission-critical applications by reducing the complex tasks of diagnosing and correcting application performance problems. This pack provides automatic performance diagnostic and advanced system monitoring functionality. The Diagnostics Pack includes the following features:

• Advanced alert management features for your application server, application server components, and host systems on which the application server and its components are running

  • Notification methods (including email, page, scripts, and SNMP traps)

  • Notification rules

  • Notification scheduling

  • Blackouts

  • User-defined metrics

  • Metric baselines

  • Response actions for alerts

• Historical data collection for performance and availability metrics and alerts for your application server, application server components, and host systems on which the application server and its components are running

• Top diagnostic reports, including Top JSPs, Top Servlets, Top EJB Methods, and Top URLs

• Application Service Level Management

  • Monitoring of end-user page performance

  • Interactive transaction tracing through the client, middle tier, and database tiers

  • Detailed tracing of network, JSP, EJB, and JDBC/SQL calls

  • Correlation of middle-tier performance to application component metrics

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Oracle Application Server Diagnostics Pack. The following list itemizes the Enterprise Manager links and areas that require licensing of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: General

All of the Grid Control pages have a set of four links in the top right corner: Setup, Preferences, Help, and Logout.

• When you click the Preferences link, there are three links on the Preferences page that are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • My Rules

  • Public Rules

  • Schedule

• When you click the Setup link, there are two links on the Setup page that are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • Notification Methods

  • Blackouts

Grid Control: Targets Tab

When you choose the Targets tab in the Grid Control Console, you get a row of subtabs categorizing the targets.

• When you choose the Application Servers subtab, you get a table that lists your application servers.

  • In the Availability column there are icons indicating the availability status of each application server. The icons are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• When you choose the Web Applications subtab, you get a table that lists your deployed applications.

  • In the Status column there are icons indicating the condition of each application. The icons are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

  • In the Availability column there are percentages indicating the availability of each application. These percentages are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics pack.

Grid Control: Alerts Tab

When you choose the Alerts tab in the Grid Control Console, you get a row of subtabs categorizing the alerts.

• When you choose any of the subtabs, you get a table that lists all targets in the subtab category.

  • Each table has a Message column. The Message column contains a brief statement about the target. These statements are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Group Home Page

When you choose the Targets tab, then the Groups subtab, there is a table that lists your targets by group. When you choose a group link from the table, it takes you to the Group Home Page.

• On the Home subtab, there is an Alerts section.

  • In the Alerts section, there are icons and links that indicate the type and number of alerts. The icons are also links, and both of these sets of links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• At the bottom of the Home subtab, there is a Related Links section. Three of the links in this section are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • Alert History

  • Blackouts

  • Summary Metrics

Grid Control: Group Page Subtabs

When you choose the Targets tab, then the Groups subtab, there is a table that lists your targets by group. When you choose a group link from the table, it takes you to the Group Home Page.

• When you choose the Member Targets subtab of the Group Home Page, there is a table that lists that application server's components.

  • The Availability column contains icons that indicate the availability of each member target. The icons are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• The entire Performace subtab is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Application Server Home Pages and Component Home Pages

You can access application server home pages from the Application Servers subtab of the Targets tab. From an application server home page, you can access the component home pages for each component of that application server.

• On the application server or component home page, there is a General section at the top of the page.

  • The General section lists the Availability % for the application server. This number is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• Next to the General section on the home page is a chart.

  • The chart on each page is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• On the application server and component home pages, there is an Alerts section.

  • In the Metric column, the alert statement is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• At the bottom of the application server and component home pages, there is a Related Links section. Two of the links in this section are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • Alert History

  • Blackouts

  • Additionally, when you choose the Manage Metrics link in this section:

    • Specifying a Response Action on the Thresholds subtab is part of the Manangement Pack

    • The Metric Baselines subtab on the Manage Metrics page is part of the Diagnostics Pack

Grid Control: Application Server J2EE Applications Page

You can access application server home pages from the Application Servers subtab of the Targets tab. The J2EE Applications subtab is located on the application server home pages.

• On the J2EE Applications page there is a table that lists all of your J2EE applications.

  • In the J2EE Applications table, in the Name column, the name of each application is a link. These links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Application Server Web Applications Page

You can access the application server home pages from the Application Servers subtab of the Targets tab. The Web Applications subtab is located on the application server home pages.

• On the Web Applications page there is a table that lists all of your Web applications and their status.

  • In the table, all of the links in the Status column are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Application Server Performance Pages and Performance Subtabs

You can access the application server home pages from the Application Servers subtab of the Targets tab. The Performance subtab is located on these pages.

• The entire Performance page and all of the links contained on it are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: OC4J Home Page

You can access the application server home pages from the Application Servers subtab of the Targets tab. The Components section of the application server home page has a link called "home" that goes to the OC4J component home page.

• On the OC4J component home page, there is an Applications subtab.

  • All links on the Applications page are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• There is a Response and Load section on the OC4J component home page that displays a chart.

  • The chart is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• On the OC4J component home page, there is an Alerts section.

  • In the Metric column, the alert statements are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• At the bottom of the OC4J home page, there is a Related Links section. Two of the links in this section are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • Alert History

  • Blackouts

  • Additionally, when you choose the Manage Metrics link in this section:

    • Specifying a Response Action on the Thresholds subtab is part of the Manangement Pack

    • The Metric Baselines subtab on the Manage Metrics page is part of the Diagnostics Pack

Grid Control: Web Application Home Page

You can access Web application home pages from the Web Applications subtab of the Targets tab. From a Web application home page, you can access the application home page for each application.

• On the application home page, there is a General section at the top of the page.

  • The General section lists the Availability % for the application. This number is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• On the application home page, there is an Alerts section.

  • In the Metric column, the alert statement is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• On the application home page, there is a Related Alerts section.

  • In the Metric column, the alert statement is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• At the bottom of the application home page, there is a Related Links section. Two of the links in this section are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • Alert History

  • Blackouts

Grid Control: Web Application Transaction Performance Page

You can access Web application home pages from the Web Applications subtab of the Targets tab. The Transaction Performance subtab is located on the Web application home pages.

• At the bottom of the Transaction Performance page there is an All Transactions section. In this section there is a Manage Transactions button, which takes you to the Manage Transactions page.

  • On the Manage Transactions page, the Play with Trace button is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Web Application Page Performance Page

You can access Web application home pages from the Web Applications subtab of the Targets tab. The Page Performance subtab is located on these pages.

• The entire Page Performance page is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Web Application Page Components Page

You can access Web application home pages from the Web Applications subtab of the Targets tab. The Components subtab is located on these pages.

• The Components page contains a Component Summary table that contains information about each of the Web application components.

  • The Status column in the table contains icons that display the status of each component. These icons are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

  • The Availability % column in the table contains percentage values for the availability of each component. These values are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Host Home Page

When you choose the Targets tab, then the Hosts subtab, there is a table that lists your application server hosts. When you choose the hosts link from the table, it takes you to the host home page.

• On the host home page, there is a General section at the top of the page.

  • The General section lists the Availability % for the host. This number is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• On the host home page, there is an Alerts section.

  • In the Metric Name column, the alert statement is a link, and the link is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

• At the bottom of the host home page, there is a Related Links section. Four of the links in this section are part of the Diagnostics Pack:

  • All Metrics

  • Alert History

  • Blackouts

  • User-Defined Metrics

  • Additionally, when you choose the Manage Metrics link in this section:

    • Specifying a Response Action on the Thresholds subtab is part of the Manangement Pack

    • The Metric Baselines subtab on the Manage Metrics page is part of the Diagnostics Pack

Grid Control: Host Performance Page

From the host home page, you can access the Performance subtab for that host.

• The entire Performance page is part of the Diagnostics Pack.

Grid Control: Host Targets Page

From the host home page, you can access the Targets subtab for that host.

• On the host targets page, there is a table that lists the current host's targets.

  • In the Availability column, the icons that indicate the availability are links, and the links are part of the Diagnostics Pack.

2.3.3 Oracle Application Server Configuration Management Pack

The Oracle Application Server Configuration Management Pack improves the efficiency and reliability of software configuration, patching, cloning, policy management, and hardware and software inventory tracking. The Configuration Management Pack includes the following features:

• Hardware and software inventory management

• Provisioning, including staging and applying Oracle Application Server patches and Oracle Application Server Oracle home cloning

• Policy management that ensures consistency of Oracle Application Server deployments, system security, and adherence to operation standards

• Configuration search and analysis, such as searching and comparing configurations across multiple hosts

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses to the Oracle Application Server Configuration Management Pack. The following list itemizes the Enterprise Manager links that require licensing of the Configuration Management Pack.

All of the Grid Control pages have a set of four links in the top right corner: Setup, Preferences, Help, and Logout.

• When you click the Setup link, there is a set of links on the left side of the Setup page:

  • The Patching Setup link is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Home Page

• On the Grid Control Home Page, there is a Critical Patch Advisories section.

  • All of the links in the Critical Patch Advisories section are part of the Configuration Management Pack.

• There is also a Deployments Summary section on the Grid Control Home Page.

  • All of the links in the Deployments Summary section are part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Deployments Page

On the Grid Control Home Page, there is a Deployments tab.

• The entire Deployments page is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Targets Tab: Groups

When you choose the Targets tab in the Grid Control Console, you get a row of subtabs categorizing the targets.

• When you choose the Groups subtab, you get a table that lists your targets in groups.

  • In the Policy Violations column there are links indicating the number of policy violations for each group. These links are part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Application Server and Component Home Pages

You can access application server home pages from the Application Servers subtab of the Targets tab. From an application server home page, you can access the component home pages for each component of that application server.

• On the application server and component home pages, there is a General section at the top of the page.

  • The General section shows the Oracle Home for the application server. The path to the Oracle Home is a link, and the link is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

  • For some components, the General section also includes the number of Policy Violations for the component. This number is a link, and the link is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

• At the bottom of the application server and component home pages, there is a Related Links section.

  • The Patch link in the Related Links section is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Host Group Page

From the Targets page, when you choose the Groups subtab, you can access the home pages for all of your application server host groups.

• On the Host Group page, there is an Advice section.

  • The Advice section lists the number of Policy Violations for the host group. This number is a link, and the link is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Host Home Page

From the Host Group page, you can choose the Member Targets subtab to list all of the application server hosts in the group. Click the name of the host to go to the individual host home page.

• On the right side of the host home page there is a Configuration section.

  • All of the links in the Configuration section are part of the Configuration Management Pack.

• On the left side of the host home page there is a General section.

  • The General section lists the number of Policy Violations for the host. The number is a link, and the link is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

• At the bottom of the host home page, there is a Related Links section. The Deployments link in this section is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Host Targets Page

When you choose the Targets subtab on the host home page, there is a table that lists all of the targets for the host and various information about each one.

• In the table there is an Oracle Home column that lists the location of the target.

  • The links in the Oracle Home column are part of the Configuration Management Pack.

• There is also a Policy Violations column.

  • The links in the Policy Violations column are part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Host Configuration Page

On the host home page, there is a Configuration subtab.

• The entire Configuration page is part of the Configuration Management Pack.

Grid Control: Jobs Tab

When you choose the Jobs tab, there is a Results section at the bottom of the page.

• In the Results section, there is a Create Job option with a list of job types and a Go button. The CloneHome, Patch, and RefreshFromMetalink jobs are part of the Configuration Management Pack.