Oracle Content Database 10g: Administration

Description:

In this course the student learns to install and configure, and perform day-to-day tasks of administering Oracle Content Database (Content DB). The student learns to maintain a production environment - for example starting and stopping Content DB processes, maintaining and managing administrative roles and managing site parameters. The class focuses on system administration tasks that need to be preformed on a regular basis without going into details about the implementation of a production system.

The student will gain hands-on experience with creating new services and servers that work with Content DB. The student also learn tasks involving working with Records DB, managing the different protocols that work with Content DB, understanding workflows, perform tuning and performance tasks and troubleshoot common issues. The student will gain an overall understanding of how Content DB integrates with Oracle technologies and the architecture components that are included within the Content DB product.

Learn To:

• Install Oracle Content Database
• Configure metric information
• Assign administrative roles
• Start and stop Content DB processes
• Manage run-time processes
• Manage Content DB domains, servers, and services configurations

Audience:

Application Developers
Business Analysts
Project Manager
System Analysts

Objectives:

• Describe the architectural components of Content DB
• Perform a successful installation of Content DB
• Identify the components that make up the Content DB domains and nodes
• Explain the differences of the administrative tools
• Access and utilize the Application Server Control
• Perform administrative tasks with the Content DB Web Client
• Manage parameters associated with a site
• Enable the antivirus solution
• Manage nodes, servers, and services at run time
• Manage servers and services configurations
• Implement different Content DB Protocols
• Use the default workflow capabilities with Content DB
• Enable and activate Records DB
• Monitor domain, node, server, and service performance
• View relevant log files
• Identify common troubleshooting issues associated with administration, protocols, workflow and performance components

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:
Oracle Content Database 10g: User Tutorial

Suggested Prerequisites:
Familiarity with the Oracle Database
Familiarity with Oracle Application Server
Oracle Database 10g: 2 Day DBA Release 2

Topics:

Oracle Content Database: Installation
Architectural components
Pre-installation and installation requirements
Provision a new user through Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Content Database: Overview
Components that make up Oracle Content domains and nodes
Administrative tools

Getting Started with Oracle Content Database
Access Application Server Control
Use the processes, performance, and administration sections

Content DB Application Administration
Use the Oracle Content Database Web Client
Perform administrative tasks

Content DB Application Management
Manage parameters associated with a site
Enable the antivirus solution
Manage different storage options
Content DB command-line tools

Managing Content DB Processes
Use the different tools for managing Content DB processes
Start and stop the Content DB domain
Manage nodes, services, and servers at run time

Content DB Configuration Settings
Manage domain properties
Manage servers and services configurations

Deploying Content DB
Implement different protocols
Describe the deployment options for Content DB
Explain how Content DB integrates with other Oracle technologies

Managing Workflows
Use the default workflow capabilities of Content DB
Register custom BPEL workflows with Content DB

Oracle Records Database
Enable and activate Records DB
Set up Records DB-related metrics
Identify the key tasks associated with Records DB

Content DB Maintenance and Tuning
Identify the tablespaces specific to Content DB
Explain how data is stored
Monitor domain, node, service, and server performance
View log files
Run performance-tuning utilities

Troubleshooting Common Content DB Issues
Common general administration problems
Content DB Protocols issues
Performance issues
Workflow issues