Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Introduction to Extending Enterprise Manager

• 1.1 Overview of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Platform
  • 1.1.1 Oracle Management Service
  • 1.1.2 Management Repository
  • 1.1.3 Management Agent
  • 1.1.4 Interfaces to Enterprise Manager
• 1.2 About the Oracle Management Service
  • 1.2.1 Cloud Control Console
• 1.3 About the Oracle Management Agent
  • 1.3.1 Changes in the Management Agent Architecture
• 1.4 About the Oracle Management Repository
• 1.5 About Metadata Plug-ins
• 1.6 What's New in the Plug-in

2 Getting Started With Enterprise Manager Plug-ins

• 2.1 What is a Plug-in?
• 2.2 What's New in Enterprise Manager Plug-ins?
• 2.3 About the Extensibility Development Kit (EDK)
  • 2.3.1 Contents of the EDK
• 2.4 Installing the Extensibility Development Kit (EDK)
• 2.5 Plug-in Development Lifecycle
  • 2.5.1 Designing Your Plug-in Metadata
• 2.6 Plug-in Contents and Packaging
  • 2.6.1 Plug-in Metadata
  • 2.6.2 Metadata Services
  • 2.6.3 Plug-in Packaging Structure
• 2.7 Releasing a Plug-in
• 2.8 Deploying a Plug-in
  • 2.8.1 Automated Deployment During Discovery
  • 2.8.2 Plug-in Upgrade
  • 2.8.3 Undeploying Plug-ins

3 About Managed Targets

• 3.1 Introduction to Managed Targets
• 3.2 What's New in Managed Targets?
• 3.3 About the Target Model
  • 3.3.1 Manageable Entity (ME)
  • 3.3.2 Managed Target
  • 3.3.3 Groups
  • 3.3.4 Systems
  • 3.3.5 Composite Targets
  • 3.3.6 System Targets
  • 3.3.7 Services
  • 3.3.8 Management Capabilities Supported

4 About Enterprise Configuration Management

• 4.1 Introduction to Enterprise Configuration Management
• 4.2 What's New in Enterprise Configuration Management?
• 4.3 About Configurations
  • 4.3.1 Viewing and Searching Configurations
  • 4.3.2 Comparing Configurations
  • 4.3.3 Saving Configurations
• 4.4 About Associations and Topology

5 Using Derived Associations

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Understanding Enterprise Manager Association Concepts
  • 5.2.1 Using Association Derivation
• 5.3 Using Association Derivation Rules Management
  • 5.3.1 About Out-of-Box Association Types
  • 5.3.2 Overview of Plug-in Developer Responsibilities
  • 5.3.3 Maintaining Performance
• 5.4 About Overlapping Associations
  • 5.4.1 Understanding Overlap Between Associations Derived by Rules
• 5.5 Frequently Asked Questions
  • 5.5.1 Which Tables Can I Reference in a Rule Query?
  • 5.5.2 Are There Guidelines for When to Use Target Properties?
  • 5.5.3 What is the Relationship Between Discovered and Derived Associations?

6 Using the Jobs Framework

• 6.1 Introduction to the Jobs Framework
• 6.2 What's New in Jobs?
  • 6.2.1 About Credentials Enhancements
  • 6.2.2 Overview of Logging Enhancements
• 6.3 Understanding Jobs
  • 6.3.1 Defining Job Types

7 Using the Reporting Framework

• 7.1 Introduction to the Reporting Framework
• 7.2 What's New in Reporting?
• 7.3 Choosing a Reporting Technology
• 7.4 Developing BI Publisher Reports
• 7.5 Developing Enterprise Manager Information Publisher Reports

8 About the Management User Interface

• 8.1 Introduction to the MPCUI Framework
• 8.2 Creating a Metadata-only or Flex User Interface
  • 8.2.1 User Interface Components
• 8.3 About MPCUI
  • 8.3.1 Overview
  • 8.3.2 About the UI Framework
• 8.4 MPCUI Services
• 8.5 MPCUI and the Extensibility Developer Kit

9 Understanding Discovery

• 9.1 Introduction to Automatic Discovery
  • 9.1.1 Key Benefits of Adding Automatic Discovery
• 9.2 What's New in Discovery?
• 9.3 Automatic Discovery Overview

10 Understanding Compliance Standards

• 10.1 About the Compliance Management Solution
• 10.2 What's New in Compliance Management?
• 10.3 Overview of Compliance Management
  • 10.3.1 About Compliance Framework
  • 10.3.2 About Compliance Standards
  • 10.3.3 About Compliance Standard Rules
  • 10.3.4 Some Considerations for Creating Compliance Standards
  • 10.3.5 About Compliance Evaluation

Index