Summary
In the last few chapters, we learned about the Enterprise Manager Architecture and features. We saw how to use those features to manage specific middleware entities. In this chapter, we bring together our learning from different chapters and put across the best practices for middleware monitoring and management.
The key takeaways in terms of best practices from this chapter are:
Create a gold image of your setup — you can use the gold image for cloning or building a new setup
Use the software library to store all gold images and application artefacts
Implement your deployment processes through deployment procedures
For monitoring, select the metrics you want to monitor and define acceptable limits for those metrics
Define the notification rules for critical metrics
To monitor an application, monitor all of the entities that contribute in making the application operational
Define service to represent services provided by an application
Save configuration snapshots after all configuration/patching...
