the management framework

[srihari]

hai
guys
can any one tell me how to Use the management framework in oracle 10g.please tell me in detail. i dont know any thing about this topic

[techguru]

How does Oracle facilitate deployment best practices for customers and partners in 10g?

All the deployment best practices in 10g—the hybrid model of cloning and patching to deploy the software, using Enterprise Manager—were formulated after involving and consulting with key customers and partners that were early adopters of our programs. That said, we can facilitate more custom environments. All the back-end operations for deployment are exposed through command-line interfaces so that they can integrate 10g with their homegrown or third-party management systems. That means the patching, the silent install, and the cloning I talked about all have command-line interfaces, explicitly documented, which a customer can use to incorporate or integrate within their homegrown systems. Of course, using EM 10g helps them scale to an extent that homegrown systems may not be capable of.
For partners, the major beneficiaries of the 10g deployment story are the independent software vendors, the ISVs, and others who can embed Oracle in their applications. The smaller footprint, as well as the silent install capability, should make Oracle the technology of choice for these customers. Even hardware vendors like Dell have been using the silent technology to provide Oracle Standard Edition with Linux on certain hardware. In fact, when they build that software, they use our framework technology to achieve that goal.

The other partner beneficiaries include management vendors such as HP and Opsware, plus others who use our powerful APIs and command line interfaces as a back-end engine for their tools. With these vendors we enjoy a competitive/cooperative relationship that is mutually beneficial. We may compete with them in the systems management space, but we also cooperate to empower them so that the Oracle databases and application servers installed on their systems are better managed at the end of the day. The 10g deployment and management framework helps them to do that.

What key enhancements are targeted for the next release?

One key goal is to expand the cloning facility within a RAC setting, which is particularly useful within a grid. There are two use cases here. One is if you already have a cluster running and you want to replicate that cluster to set up a brand new cluster—say, cloning 10 or 15 nodes to a different cluster. The other case is if you have a cluster with 15 nodes running, you have a 16th node that has just arrived, you have provisioned the OS onto that node, and you just want to extend the software to that new node. So one use case is inter-cluster and the other one is intra-cluster.
In both cases we will be using the underlying cloning framework. We're also looking to expand the cloning framework to include other pieces. For example, the technology could be used to provision an entire stack of Oracle products. This capability may also extend from the operating system to the application layer to provision computing resources on demand.
We are also going to make OPatch the patching tool for all Oracle products. In Oracle 10g Release 1, it's restricted to the database, but in the very near future, patches on other Oracle core technology products are going to use the same technique. What that essentially means is that we will have a single patching strategy and mechanism for all Oracle technology products.


ORACLE ENTERPRISE MANAGER GRID CONTROL

Grid control provides a simplified, centralized management framework for managing enterprise resources and analyzing a grid’s performance. With Grid Control, grid administrators can manage the complete grid environment through a Web browser throughout the whole system’s software lifecycle, front-to-back, from any location on the network.
With Grid control, administrators can launch and execute any number of integrated Oracle Database features such as Data Pump, Resource Manager, Scheduler, Transportable Tablespaces, etc. Administrators can also monitor, diagnose, modify, and tune multiple databases throughout the grid. Administrators can also schedule tasks on multiple systems at varying.