Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide

CHAPTER 12Configure Group and Service Monitoring

This chapter picks up from where the last chapter left off in configuring two principal remaining target types: Group and Service. They garner recognition as the principal characters here, and each is accordingly bequeathed a section title in this chapter. However, the service takes the lion’s share of the page count, for good reason. A service is conceptually more difficult to explain; it has its own vocabulary, objectives, and configuration intricacies. The complexity in configuring a service comes from having to first create the underlying System (yet another target type), then create and configure the service itself. We concentrate on one of a handful of service types, a specialized service ...