2 Getting Started with Enterprise Manager

2.1.1 Scenario: Accounts and Roles

Linda is a super administrator who needs to set up accounts for her team of administrators. She needs to first create roles and then assign them to various administrators. Each administrator might require a different set of privileges. For example, a database administrator requires access to managed databases, but not to the application server that uses the database. A Web administrator might require the privilege to manage beacons or create targets without requiring any privileges on the databases.

2.1.2 Creating an Administrator Account

This topic describes how to use Enterprise Manager to create an administrator account and assign privileges to it.

To create an administrator account:

1. Click Setup in the Grid Control console.

2. Select Administrators from the panel to the left.

   The Administrators page appears. It lists existing accounts. You can search for a specific administrator account, create a brand new administrator account or one based on an existing account, view roles, system, and target privileges for an administrator, make changes to an existing administrator account, or remove an administrator.

3. Click Create to create a new administrator account.

   This brings up the Create Administrator wizard. Using this wizard, you can specify details such as the role to apply to the account and the system and target privileges to be assigned to the role.

   
   

4. Click Continue.

5. Click OK.

2.2.1 Scenario: Notifications

When accounts have been created for administrators, they need to log in to Grid Control to customize their preferences. One of the administrators, Joe always receives alerts on his work account. When Joe is out of his office, he needs alerts to also be sent to his mobile device. Accounts can be set up for such alerts. Joe has a rotating schedule where every third week, he works late on Wednesday and Friday. Alerts need to be sent out taking his schedule into consideration.

2.2.2 Defining a Notification Schedule

This topic describes how to use Enterprise Manager to set up a notification schedule, including setting notification methods and defining a schedule by which to send out notifications.

To create a notification schedule:

1. Click Setup in the Grid Control console.

2. Click Notification Methods in the panel to the left.

   The Notification Methods page appears. If you want notifications to be sent out using OS commands, PL/SQL procedures, or SNMP traps, you can define them on this page. For example, you can create a notification method to pass critical production alerts to the system administration tool HP OpenView round the clock. To do so, you can create an OS method that calls an HP OpenView perl script as /bin/methods/hpovo.pl.

3. Click Apply.

4. Click Preferences in the Grid Control console.

   The General page appears. On this page, you can specify the e-mail addresses to which you want notifications sent.

5. Click Schedule under Notification in the panel to the left.

   The Notification Schedule page appears.

6. Click Define Schedule.

   The Edit Schedule Definition page appears. You can specify the frequency at which you want notifications to be sent to you, the time zone, the start date, and so on. You can also specify e-mail IDs at which you want notifications for a given time period to be sent.

   
   

7. Click Finish.

   The notification schedule is defined for the selected account.

2.3.1 Scenario: Preferred Credentials

Database administrators in Linda's team need to provide database-level credentials to be able to monitor performance or do any administrative action through Grid Control. By setting up preferred credentials, they will be able to quickly access these areas without reentering their credentials. Also, the Oracle Enterprise Manager job system can use these credentials for scripts or jobs that run against these targets.

2.3.2 Setting Preferred Credentials

To set preferred credentials:

1. Click Preferences in the Grid Control console.

2. Click Preferred Credentials in the vertical navigation bar.

   The Preferred Credentials page appears, providing a top-level view of all preferred credentials set for your Enterprise Manager environment. From this page, you can set preferred credentials for any managed target types listed in the Preferred Credentials table. Each row of the table provides a credential summary for a type of target.

3. Click the icon in the Set Credentials column for a selected target type.

   The Preferred Credentials page for that target type appears. You can set default credentials and target credentials for the target type. The target credentials are selectively set for specific targets and override the default credentials.
   

4. Click Apply.

   The new credentials are applied to the targets and target type as specified.