Preface

This preface describes the purpose and organization of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide. The preface contains the following information:

Topic	See Page
Purpose of this Guide	-ii
Audience	-ii
How this Guide Is Organized	-iii
Documentation	-iii
Related Publications	-iv

Purpose of this Guide

This guide presents a general overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager^TM.

The Oracle Enterprise Manager provides an integrated solution for managing your heterogeneous environment, with an open, client/server architecture. The client/server architecture, which is both scalable and lightweight, consists of a centralized console, common services and intelligent agents running on the managed nodes. Various applications reside on top of the common services, performing comprehensive system management tasks.

Audience

This guide is intended for those who wish to learn the general concepts of Oracle Enterprise Manager.

You should already be familiar with the Oracle Universal Server and the administrative tasks you wish to perform. For general information about the Oracle Server and how it works, see the Oracle Server Concepts Guide. For information about database administration procedures, refer to the Oracle Server documentation set. The Oracle Server documentation set contains specific and thorough descriptions of the database administration tasks you can perform with Enterprise Manager tools. In addition, the Oracle Server documentation set provides recommendations on how to administer your database optimally.

You should also be are familiar with the operation of your specific Microsoft Windows system. Refer to the documentation for your Windows system, if necessary.

How this Guide Is Organized

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapters	Description
Chapter 1, "Overview Of Oracle Enterprise Manager"	Describes the overall organization and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager, the Console, and the common services.
Chapter 2, "The Console"	Describes the layout and use of the Enterprise Manager Console.
Chapter 3, "Job and Event Systems"	Describes the Job Scheduling and Event Management Systems that execute jobs and monitor events on sites throughout the network.
Chapter 4, "DBA Applications"	Describes the standard suite of database administration applications that are integrated into the Console.
Chapter 5, "Value-Added Applications"	Describes the optional Performance Pack and other integrated applications.

Documentation

The Oracle Enterprise Manager product documentation includes the following:

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Readme provides important notes regarding the online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking news.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide provides information about configuring the Oracle Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide provides an overview of the Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide describes the components and features of the Oracle Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Performance Monitoring User's Guide, Oracle Expert User's Guide, and Oracle Trace User's Guide provide information about performance monitoring applications.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Messages Manual describes the Oracle Enterprise Manager error messages and methods for diagnosing the messages.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Developer's Guide provides information on programming external interfaces to Oracle Enterprise Manager.

The guides are available on the Oracle Enterprise Manager CD in HTML format for viewing with a web browser.

In addition to the Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation, extensive online help is provided for Oracle Enterprise Manager components.

Related Publications

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide refers to important information in the related publications. Depending on the version of the Oracle database, you would refer to the Oracle7 or Oracle8 documentation. The related books referred to in this guide are listed below:

For general information about the Oracle Server and how it works, see the Oracle Server Concepts Guide.
For information about administering the Oracle Server, see the Oracle Server Administrator's Guide.
For information about administering Oracle Parallel Servers, see the Oracle Parallel Server Support for the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console Guide.
For information about developing database applications within the Oracle Server, see the Oracle Server Application Developer's Guide.
For the procedures for migrating a previous version of Oracle to Oracle, see the Oracle Server Migration.
For information on Oracle's SQL commands and functions, see the Oracle Server SQL Reference.
For information about Oracle's procedural language extension to SQL, PL/SQL, see the PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference.
For information about Oracle messages and codes, refer to Oracle Server Messages.
For information about the utilities bundled with the Oracle Server, including Export, Import, and SQL*Loader, refer to the Oracle Server Utilities.
For information about distributing and replicating data, refer to Oracle Distributed Systems Volume I: Distributed Data and Volume II: Replicated Data.
For information specific to the Oracle Server working on your host operating system, see your operating system-specific Oracle documentation (specific book titles vary by operating system) and system release bulletins, if available.
For information about Net8 Assistant, see the Net8 Assistant documentation, which includes Understanding Net8 Assistant, the Oracle Network Manager Administrator's Guide, the Oracle Names Administrator's Guide, the Oracle Network Products Messages Manual, and the Oracle MultiProtocol Interchange Administrator's Guide.

Oracle Corporation also publishes several files that are available on your distribution media. These files are usually named README, RELNOTE, BUGHST, and RESTRICT and have extensions such as .WRI, .DOC, and .TXT. Read these files to learn about changes to the software or documentation that has not been described in the guides.

Note:

The exact names and locations of the files mentioned above may vary, depending on your operating system.