Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documents

Conventions

Obtaining the Software

Installing the Connector and Configuring the Enterprise Controller

Install and Enable Ops Center Notification Web Service

Create an Ops Center User For the Connector

Create a Notification Profile For the Ops Center User

Capture the Web Service Certificate File

Example – Exporting the Certificate From the Command Line

1 Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

Register the Connector and Templates

Update the certdb.txt File

Configuring the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Connector

General Settings

Default Connector Target

Managing and Creating Targets

Connector Target Alert Association (Alert Routing)

Create Connector Targets (Optional)

Response Status of Targets

Uninstalling the Ops Center Connector

2 Ops Center Notifications

OS Monitoring Notifications

Hardware Monitoring Notifications

Receiving Ops Center Notifications in Enterprise Manager

Alert Timestamp Definitions

Oracle® Enterprise Manager

Management Connector for Ops Center Installation and Configuration Guide

Release 10.2.0.5.0

E17066-01

March 2010

Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Connector for Ops Center Installation and Configuration Guide, Release 10.2.0.5.0

E17066-01

Copyright © 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Primary Author:  Leo Cloutier

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Preface

This Connector Installation and Configuration guide provides the information that you require to install and configure Management Connectors that integrate Enterprise Manager with other management tools and help desk systems.

Audience

This guide is written for Oracle Database system administrators who want to install and configure Management Connectors to enable integration between Enterprise Manager and other systems.

You should already be familiar with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

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Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts

Oracle Enterprise Manager Quick Installation Guide

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation and Basic Configuration

Oracle Enterprise Manager Metric Reference Manual

Oracle Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface

Extending Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 2.5 Documentation Set

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Introduction to the Management Connector For Ops Center

The Management Connector for Ops Center enables you to view event information in the Enterprise Manager console from the lowest hardware levels all the way up to your critical business services. With the connector, Ops Center notifications are displayed as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control alerts. The retrieved alerts are stored in the Enterprise Manager repository and displayed through the Enterprise Manager console. Beginning with Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5, you can retrieve Ops Center notifications and display them in Enterprise Manager as alerts in real time through Web services. In this release the data flow is one way, from Ops Center to the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.Using a polling mechanism, the Ops Center Connector retrieves data through Web Services on HTTPS protocols. The polling interval is user-definable, but cannot be shorter than five (5) minutes. If an interval shorter than five minutes is defined, it defaults to five minutes.The default target_type defined in Enterprise Manager is oc_managed_host. The retrieved alerts are stored in the default target instance generic_oc_managed_host. You can install and configure additional target instances based on your requirements.

Obtaining the Software

Follow these steps to download the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Connector For Ops Center software:

Download the Ops_Center_Connector_Bundle_1.0.zip connector bundle.

Unzip the file:

$ unzip Ops_Center_Connector_Bundle_1.0.zip
  Archive:   Ops_Center_Connector_Bundle_1.0.zip
  inflating: OpsCenterConnector_1.0.jar
  inflating: README.txt
  inflating: SUNWxvmoc-notification-ws.pkg
  inflating: sun-xvmoc-notification-ws-2.5.0-0001.noarch.rpm

Installing the Connector and Configuring the Enterprise Controller

You must perform the following steps to configure the Ops Center Enterprise Controller:

Install and enable the Ops Center notification web service

Create an Ops Center user for the Connector

Create a Notification Profile for the Ops Center User

Capture the Web Service certificate file

Note:

Enterprise Manager Grid Control patch 9153712 is required for routing Ops Center Alerts to Grid Control Hosts.

Install and Enable Ops Center Notification Web Service

To install and enable the Ops Center notification web service, follow these steps:

Copy the appropriate native package for your Enterprise Controller operating system.

While the Enterprise Controller is running, add the package:

Linux

# rpm -i sun-xvmoc-notification-ws-2.5.0-0001.noarch.rpm

Solaris

# pkgadd -d ./SUNWxvmoc-notification-ws.pkg SUNWxvmoc-notification-ws

Create an Ops Center User For the Connector

After the package is installed on the Enterprise Controller, create an Ops Center user and assign a user role, and then create a notification profile for the connector.

Note:

The Ops Center user for the connector must be a UNIX® user on the Enterprise Controller.

Roles enable the Enterprise Controller Admin user to control access and authorization to use the different functions of Ops Center. Roles can be granted for the Enterprise Controller, All Assets, or specific user-created groups. The All Assets role enables the user to perform any action and receive notifications on any asset or group.

Log into Ops Center as an Enterprise Controller admin user.

Click Administration in the Navigation panel, then click the Users tab.

On the Users page, click the Add User icon.

Enter a user name, then click Add User. The new user is created. New user information, such as the password, is pulled from the local authentication subsystem.

Click Administration in the Navigation panel, then click the Roles tab.

Select the user from the drop-down menu.

(Optional) To receive connectivity and security alerts, grant the Admin role to the Enterprise Controller.

In the center panel, highlight Enterprise Controller, then click the Edit Roles icon.

Select the check box for the Admin role, then click Update Role Capabilities.

In the center panel, highlight All Assets, then click the Edit Roles icon.

Select the check box for the Admin role, then click Update Role Capabilities.

The following graphic shows a connector user with the Ops Center Admin role for the Enterprise Controller and All Assets.

Figure 1 Roles Management Example

See Roles and Authorizations in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center documentation for more information about Ops Center roles and authorization levels.

Create a Notification Profile For the Ops Center User

Notification Profiles determine how notifications are sent to the designated user, the assets for which the user will receive notification, and the severity level.

You can choose from the following notification levels:

None – No notifications are sent

Low and Higher – Low, medium, and high severity notifications are sent

Medium and Higher – Medium and high severity notifications are sent

High – High severity notifications are sent

Low and Medium notifications are displayed as Warning alerts, and High severity notifications are displayed as Critical alerts in Oracle Enterprise Manager. For the Ops Center Connector user to receive all alerts, create a Notification Profile that designates the Low and Higher notification level and subscribes to all notifications.

See Configuring a Notification Profile in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center documentation for more information.

Log into Ops Center as the Ops Center Enterprise Controller admin user.

Click Administration in the Navigation panel, then click the Enterprise Controller.

Click the Users tab in the center panel and select the user that you created in Create an Ops Center User For the Connector

Click the Configure Notification Profile icon.

Select Subscribe to All Notifications.

Figure 2 Subscribe to All Notifications

From the Application drop-down list, select the Low and higher option for messages to be received through the BUI.

Click Update Notification Profile.

Stop and restart the Enterprise Controller.

# satadm stop -w
# satadm start -w

If you have one or more remote Proxy Controllers, stop and restart each Proxy Controller.

# proxyadm stop -w
# proxyadm start -w

Capture the Web Service Certificate File

An HTTPS protocol is required to establish a connection between Ops Center and Enterprise Manager. You can export the certificate through the command line, export and save the certificate to a file, or export the certificate from a browser. The method described below is to export the certificate from a browser. By using the browser, you are testing that the webservice is available and that the Ops Center user that you created earlier has access. This procedure describes how to export the Web Services certificate file. The contents of this file will be used in a later procedure to update the Oracle Enterprise Manager certificate file.

Launch a browser and navigate to the following URL for your Ops Center instance, replacing <hostname> with the host name of the Enterprise Controller:

https://<EnterpriseController>:443/soap/NotificationBridge?WSDL

Accept the Web Service certificate.

To export the certificate, click View, click Details, and then click Export. Depending on your browser, this might be done from the security icon in the lower right corner of your browser or from the encryption settings in your browser's Advanced Preferences.

Select X.509 (PEM) certificate and name the file certdb.txt.

Open the certdb.txt file in a text editor, such as Notepad, and copy the contents. You will update this certdb.txt file after you register the connector and templates.

Example – Exporting the Certificate From the Command Line

Instead of exporting the certificate from a browser, you can use the keytool cert export tool to export the certificate from the command line. The following is an example of how to export the cacao_agent certificate to a file in a text format. In this example, the certificate file is /var/tmp/cacao_adm.cert.

The keystore password is stored in the /var/tmp/cacao_adm.cert file.

The keytool is located in the following directory:

Linux OS – /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/keytool

Solaris OS – /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/keytool

As root, run the following command on the Enterprise Controller:

Linux OS

The password for the following command is the contents of the /etc/opt/sun/cacao2/instances/default/security/password file.

# keytool -export -rfc -keystore /opt/sun/cacao2/instances/default/security/jsse/keystore -file /var/tmp/cacao_adm.cert -alias cacao_agent

Solaris OS

The password for the following command is the contents of the /etc/cacao/instances/default/security/password file.

# keytool -export -rfc -keystore /etc/cacao/instances/default/security/jsse/keystore -file /var/tmp/cacao_adm.cert -alias cacao_agent

Enter the keystore password.

1 Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

The following chapter discusses the procedures required to configure Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control for use with Ops Center.

Register the Connector and Templates

You must extract and register the connector then register following webservice templates with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control:

Incoming transform template for get new alerts

Outgoing transform template for get new alerts

Incoming transform template for get updated alerts

Outgoing transform template for get updated alerts

Generic outgoing template for update alerts

Outgoing transform template for get updated alerts

Note:

For environments with multiple Oracle Management Servers, the emctl extract_jar command must be run on all OMS instances (Step 1). The registration steps (2-6) may be run once from any of the Oracle Management Servers.

To register the Ops Center Connector and templates, or re-register a previously removed connector, follow these steps:

Run the following emctl command to extract the Ops Center Connector descriptors, templates and transform files from the connector .jar

The command extracts the connector files to the $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/ folder.

Note:

The emctl commands which follow will be run by the user who owns the oracle installation (generally oracle). Before you begin, verify that the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory is in this user's PATH variable.

Command syntax for extract_jar:

% emctl extract_jar connector [-jar <jarfile>] [-ctname <connectorName>]

In the following command example the connector .jar is referenced from the current working directory:

% emctl extract_jar connector -jar ./OpsCenterConnector_1.0.jar -cname 'Ops Center Connector'

Register the Connector

Command syntax for register_connector:

% emctl register_connector connector [-dd <connectorType.xml>] [-cs <connect string>] [-s <server>] [-p <port>] [-sn <database sn>] [-repos_user <repos username>] [-repos_pwd <repos password>]

Note:

The remaining Seven emctl connector registration examples will prompt you for connection string information and sysman credentials. For many environments the connect string will have the following format: //localhost:1521/emrep

An example which interactively prompts for connect string, user and password is seen below:

% emctl register_connector connector -dd ${ORACLE_HOME}/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/OpsCenterConnector.xml

Register the incoming and outgoing transform templates for the get new alerts webservice method:

Command syntax for register_template (next six registration commands):

% emctl register_template connector [-t <template.xml>] [-cs <connect string>] [-s <server>] [-p <port>] [-sn <database sn>] [-repos_user <repos username>] [-repos_pwd <repos password>] [-ctname <connectorTypeName>] [-cname <connectorName>] [-iname <internalName>] [-tname <templateName>] [-ttype <templateType>] [-d <description>]

% emctl register_template connector -t $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/getNewAlerts_response.xsl -ctname 'Ops Center Connector' -cname 'Ops Center Connector' -tname 'Get New Alerts Response' -iname getNewAlerts -ttype 1 -d 'this transforms the get new alerts response'

% emctl register_template connector -t $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/getNewAlerts_request.xsl -ctname 'Ops Center Connector' -cname 'Ops Center Connector' -tname 'Get New Alerts' -iname getNewAlerts -ttype 2 -d 'this transforms the generic get new alerts request'

Register the incoming and outgoing templates for get updated alerts:

% emctl register_template connector -t $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/getUpdatedAlerts_response.xsl -ctname 'Ops Center Connector' -cname 'Ops Center Connector' -tname 'Get Updated Alerts Response' -iname getUpdatedAlerts -ttype 1 -d 'this transforms the get updated alerts response'

% emctl register_template connector -t $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/getUpdatedAlerts_request.xsl -ctname 'Ops Center Connector' -cname 'Ops Center Connector' -tname 'Get Updated Alerts' -iname getUpdatedAlerts -ttype 2 -d 'this transforms the generic get updated alerts request'

Register the generic outgoing template for update alerts

% emctl register_template connector -t $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/updateAlerts_request.xml -ctname 'Ops Center Connector' -cname 'Ops Center Connector' -tname 'Update Alerts' -iname 'updatedAlerts' -ttype 3 -d 'this is the generic template for Update Alerts'

Register the outgoing template for update alerts:

% emctl register_template connector -t $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/Ops_Center_Connector/updateAlerts_request.xsl -ctname 'Ops Center Connector' -cname 'Ops Center Connector' -tname 'Update Alerts' -iname 'updatedAlerts' -ttype 2 -d 'this transforms the updateAlerts request'

Update the certdb.txt File

Append $OMS_HOME/sysman/connector/certdb.txt file with the contents of the web service certificate file that you captured earlier. See Capture the Web Service Certificate File.

Note:

If you have a multi-OMS environment, update the certdb.txt file on each OMS.

To update the certdb.txt file, as root, navigate to the following directory:

# ${OMS_HOME}/sysman/connector

If there is a certdb.txt file, paste the text of the exported certificate file into the certdb.txt file.

If there is not a certdb.txt file, open a text editor and use the exported certificate file to create a file.

Configuring the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Connector

When you access the Enterprise Manager console as a Super Administrator, the Ops Center Connector is displayed in the Management Connector Setup page as shown in Step 2.

As an Enterprise Manager Super Administration, click Setup in the upper right corner of the Enterprise Manager console.

Click the Management Connectors link in the left pane. The Management Connectors page appears. For the Ops Center Connector row, the Configured column should be blank, as shown below.

Note:

A check mark in the Configured column indicates that the Connector is already configured.

Figure 1-1 Management Connectors Page

Click the Configure icon for the Ops Center Connector. The General tab of the Configure Management Connector page appears as seen below.

Figure 1-2 General Tab of Configure Management Connector

Provide the following required settings. See General Settings for details. You must choose HTTPS as the protocol to establish a connection between Ops Center and Enterprise Manager.

Replace the [Hostname], including the brackets, in each of the three endpoint URLs with the Ops Center Enterprise Controller host name or IP address. The following is an example of a valid Web Service End Point

https://myhostname:443/soap/NotificationBridge

Add the Ops Center and Oracle Enterprise Manager credentials:

Ops Center – The Ops Center user created for connector use and the associated password

Oracle Enterprise Manager – The Oracle Enterprise Manager sysman user and the associated password

Enter a polling time of at least five (5) minutes

Click OK to save the configuration

Optional: Go to the Targets tab and specify the details for creating additional target instances. See Managing and Creating Targets for details.

Click OK.

The Management Connectors page reappears. The Ops Center Connector row contains a check mark in the Configured column

Figure 1-3 Management Connectors Page With Configured Column Checked

General Settings

This section provides the communication details required for configuring the connector.

Web Service End Points — Web Service End Point (URL) for each of the three Operations (getNewAlerts, getNewAlerts and updateAlerts). Only the host name will be updated for your environment.

Ops Center Username — Ops Center user created for connector use.

Ops Center Password — The above users password.

Enterprise Manager Username — Enter the user name to be used to insert alerts; for example, SYSMAN. The user must have full privileges on the Ops Center Managed Host target. Administrator privileges are recommended; for instance, you should be a super user such as SYSMAN.

Enterprise Manager Password — Enter a password for the user name you specified.

Polling Interval — Enter the time interval between event collections. The polling interval should not be shorter than 5 minutes. If you define an interval shorter than 5 minutes, it defaults to 5 minutes.

Default Connector Target

When you register the connector, a default connector target named generic_ops_center_managed_host is created. This default connector target is displayed in the Grid Control Console as Ops Center Managed Host. It is associated with any alerts received from Ops Center which cannot be matched to any other Enterprise Manager targets.

Note:

Do not remove the default generic_ops_center_managed_host connector target. If the default target is removed, alerts which cannot be mapped to any other target will generate an error message, which is logged in the eocs.log file.

Managing and Creating Targets

In addition to the default connector target, you can create new Ops Center Managed Host targets. These targets can receive alerts from associated connectors.

This section discusses the following topics:

Connector Target Alert Association (Alert Routing)

Create Connector Targets (Optional)

Response Status of Targets

Connector Target Alert Association (Alert Routing)

The alerts created by the Ops Center Management Connector can be associated with either Enterprise Manager Grid Control Hosts or Ops Center Managed Hosts. Matching Grid Control Hosts have the highest precedence. If both a matching Ops Center Managed Host and a Grid Control Host alert is associated with the Enterprise Manager host, and if no matching target of either type exists, the alert is associated with the default connector target generic_ops_center_managed_host.

Note:

Enterprise Manager Grid Control patch 9153712 is required for routing Ops Center Alerts to Grid Control Hosts.

An alert is assigned to respective targets based on the asset name in Ops Center which generated the alert. If you have assets managed only in Ops Center, connector targets may optionally be created to avoid generated alerts being associated with the default connector host. The Ops Center Management Connector also supports routing alerts to a specially named connector target, ops_center_server. To keep alerts about the Ops Center Server and Connectivity issues from being associated with the default target, generic_ops_center_managed_host, create a connector target named ops_center_server.

Create Connector Targets (Optional)

In the Configure Management Connector page, click the Targets tab to create specific target instances.

You can optionally create additional Ops Center Managed Host and associate external alerts with these target instances.

To add a new target, follow these steps:

As an Enterprise Manager Super Administration, click Setup in the upper right corner of the Enterprise Manager console.

Click the Management Connectors link in the left pane.

The Management Connectors page appears.

Click the Configure icon for the Ops Center Connector.

The General tab of the Configure Management Connector page appears.

Specify the target name you would like to use for the created Ops Center Managed Host

In the HOSTNAME column, specify the asset name of the Ops Center target from which you would like to receive alerts.

Click OK.

Note:

If you want to create more target instances, click Add Rows to add additional rows and then specify the target information. To remove a target, check the Select check box corresponding to the target, click Remove, then click OK.

Response Status of Targets

In Enterprise Manager, the response status of targets typically indicates whether an application is running. However, the response status will always be Pending for targets managed by Ops Center. For current detailed information of managed assets, use the Ops Center user interface.

Uninstalling the Ops Center Connector

To uninstall the Ops Center Connector from Oracle Enterprise Manager:

Select the Ops Center Connector in the Management Connectors page.

Click Delete. If you remove this connector at some point and then want to subsequently re-register it, see Register the Connector and Templates.

To remove the Notification Bridge from Ops Center:

As root, log in to the Enterprise Controller.

Use the pkgrm command to remove the notification package.

# pkgrm  ./SUNWxvmoc-notification-ws.pkg SUNWxvmoc-notification-ws

Stop and restart the Enterprise Controller.

# satadm stop -w
# satadm start -w

2 Ops Center Notifications

Ops Center monitors the health of your operating systems and hardware. Create and configure the Ops Center Notification Profile to alert specific users to receive an notification when a threshold or parameter is crossed.

This chapter discusses the following topics:

OS Monitoring Notifications

Hardware Monitoring Notifications

Receiving Ops Center Notifications in Enterprise Manager

Alert Timestamp Definitions

OS Monitoring Notifications

Ops Center enables you to monitor the health of your Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems, including the following:

Connectivity

File system status

Monitoring variables

CPU usage

Memory usage

Network usage

When a pre-defined threshold or variable is crossed, a notification is sent. You can edit the thresholds and variables that control how OS monitoring takes place. See Monitoring an OS in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 2.5 documentation for the procedures to change thresholds and health states.

Hardware Monitoring Notifications

Ops Center enables you to monitor the following parameters on Sun hardware:

Hardware health status

Manage and monitor the power states of a system and power systems on and off

Power usage for ILOM based servers and chassis

Monitor hardware variables and connectivity, including M-series servers

Receiving Ops Center Notifications in Enterprise Manager

The Management Connector enables you to forward Ops Center OS and hardware monitoring notifications to Enterprise Manager, thereby enabling better correlation of IT problems across the technology stack.After the notifications are forwarded to Enterprise Manager, they are associated with the appropriate targets, depending on the mapping option(s) that you selected. The connector tracks the alerts forwarded from Ops Center and automatically updates information in Enterprise Manager. The alerts are cleared from the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control seven (7) days after the alert is sent.The Ops Center notification severity appear as the following Alert severity in Enterprise Manager:

Ops Center Notification Severity | Enterprise Manager Alert Severity
Low | Warning
Medium | Warning
High | Critical

You can specify how alerts are triggered, and which alerts are triggered by configuring the monitoring parameters and the user's Notifications Profile in Ops Center.

Alert Timestamp Definitions

The date and time for an Ops Center generated alert that appears in the Grid Control console might differ from the those that are generated by Enterprise Manager. In most cases, the timestamp reflects the date and time that Grid Control received the alert from Ops Center.

If an Ops Center Notification was sent to Grid Control, the timestamp displayed in each field is defined as follows:

Table 2-1 Alert Timestamp Definitions

Field Name
Description of the Date and Time

Message

The date and time that the alert was triggered in Ops Center

Alert Triggered

The date and time that Grid Control received the alert from Ops Center

Last Checked

The date and time that Grid Control received the alert from Ops Center

Last Collected Timestamp

The date and time that Grid Control received the alert from Ops Center

Note:

The actual date and time that the alert was identified by Ops Center appears in the alarm text.

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