1 Introduction

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is Oracle's comprehensive solution for managing the assets in your data center: operating system, firmware, and BIOS configuration, bare metal and virtual machine provisioning, hardware monitoring, automatic My Oracle Support service request generation, and performance and energy management.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center in the Data Center

After the assets have been discovered and brought under the management of the software as described in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Administration Guide, you can monitor, configure, provision, and update the assets throughout their lifecycle from a single console, regardless of where the asset is located. You can see the status of all assets and you can drill down to see details of a specific asset. You can track an individual asset's status right now and you can view the history of all the assets of that type. If an asset reports an incident, you can track the progress of any investigation or service requests.You can deploy new assets in a manner consistent with the existing assets because you use profiles to set the attributes and plans to deploy the profiles to one target or many targets.

Roles and Connection Modes

Your ability to perform an operation is affected by the role assigned to your user account and by the connection mode of the product software:

All the actions that are included in your role are available in the Actions pane. When you must accomplish a task and a necessary action is not available, your administrator can add the role to your user account. When you log in again, the action is available.

The required roles for using a feature are listed in its chapter. See the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Administration Guide for information about the different roles and the permissions they grant.
When the software is in Connected mode, any deployment plan and profile that relies on images and packages uses the current images and packages downloaded from Oracle and vendor sites to the Enterprise Controller. If your site uses the product software in Disconnected mode, the images and packages in your local knowledge base do not change until your site acquires them.

Changing the connection mode can be done easily and temporarily. See the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Administration Guide for the procedure for changing the connection mode.

User Preferences and Roles

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center enables you to customize the user interface by setting your own user preferences.

Start In and Start Page Preferences

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center caters to select any drawer of the Navigation pane to be displayed as the default view upon your log in. At the next login through your user name, the home page displays the details of the drawer of Navigation pane that you have selected as your default view. For example, when you select assets from the Navigation pane, then you can also select the sub-option for assets to be displayed as the default view on start up. Your personal preferences overrides the preferences that were previously set for your role.

User Interface Preferences

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center enables you to use Display preferences to display any specific drawer from the Navigation pane at your start up view of the user interface. When you log into the user interface, the selected drawer and sub-option are displayed. By default, the Assets and Administration drawers cannot be hidden. When you select Assets for display, then you can also choose a default tab to display.

Time interval lets you define a definite length of time marked off by two instants. Time interval has the following options:

Session timeout – This option lets you set the timeout for your user interface session. The default value is 30 minutes. You can set the value for session timeout anything in the range in between 5 to 120 minutes.
Console timeout – This option lets you set the timeout for the serial console of managed assets. The default value is 120 minutes. You can set the value for console timeout anything in the range in between 5 to 120 minutes.
Connectivity check interval – This option lets you determine how often the software checks access to the Internet, Knowledge Base, and My Oracle Support Services. The default value is 15 minutes and the minimum value is 1 minute.
Table refresh frequency – This option determines how often the tables in the user interface refresh their data. The default value is 30 seconds and the minimum value is 10 seconds.
Job status popup duration – This option determines after how long the job completion popup is displayed when a job is completed. The default value is 5 seconds.

Membership Graph Preferences

As a user, you can also select the default display preferences for Membership Graph. You can set the display preferences for the orientation as left, right, top, and bottom. You can choose the icon size as small or large and the level of depth for the assets to be displayed in Membership Graph.

User Preferences Summary

The User Preferences Summary displays a summarized history of the preferences that you have selected for your user preferences. You can view your set preferences for the start page, time intervals, asset default tab, and the Membership Graph.

Role Preferences

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center lets you set preferences for a role. On the start up of the user interface, you can set the display preferences, time interval settings, and an asset to be displayed for a defined role.

You can also set the preferences of the membership graph through selecting the depth, icon size, and orientation for the selected role.

How To Use This Collection

All the documentation for the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c Release 1 software is located at this site: http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=oc121 including end-to-end examples located on the How to tab.

This document is divided into parts, not all of which will be relevant to your site's activities or your role in the data center. Within each part, this document describes the capabilities of the product software, organized by feature. Where it is practical, all information about a feature is discussed in the same chapter. To avoid repetition, links have been added to other chapters in the document and to the How To library.

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