Chapter 11. Managing Non-Oracle Middleware

You cannot expect your IT organizations to have only Oracle middleware and databases. The Service Oriented Architecture has become popular because it simplifies the integration of several heterogeneous platforms and systems. Even if you primarily run on Oracle software you may get some non-Oracle middleware platforms along with a packaged application or due to a merger/acquisition with another company. You would expect that the management solution that you implement will help you to monitor your non-Oracle middleware and databases. You may remember from our discussion that Oracle Enterprise Manager provides an extensible mechanism known as plug-in architecture to build additional monitoring capabilities.

In this chapter, we will learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager provides you with the ability to manage non-Oracle middleware.

You will learn about the following:

• Monitoring of open source middleware Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat, and JBoss Application Server...