Click the Targets tab.

Click any one of the listed hosts.

Click the Configuration property page.

The information that you see on the host configuration page is the configuration information currently stored for that host in the Management Repository. Click the Databases subtab.

Click any one of the listed databases.

The database home page shows you the instance name, version, and uptime of the database, as well as a variety of other statistics. Click the Administration property page.

Click the All Initialization Parameters link under the Database Configuration section.

Specify the database credentials and click the Login button.

From here you can view all the initialization parameters stored in the Management Repository and their values which are currently used by the running instance.

Click the Search link under the Configuration section.

Click the Initialization Parameter Settings link under the Search Database Configuration Data section.

In the Parameter Name field, enter shared_pool_size and click the Go button.

This will display all shared_pool_size settings for all databases monitored by Grid Control. To narrow it down to a particular parameter on a particular database, the Database Name field can also be filled in when performing the search.

Click the Search Configurations locator link at the top.

Click the Datafiles link under the Search Database Configuration Data section.

Click the flashlight next to the Database Name field.

Select the database assigned to you and click the Select button.

Click the Go button.

This will display all datafiles (including locations and sizes) for the specified database. Click the Search Configurations locator link at the top.

Click the Database Feature Usage link under the Search Database Configuration Data section.

Enter Advanced Security in the Feature Name field and click the Go button.

It will list all the databases using the Advanced Security feature. Click the Search Configurations locator link at the top.

Click the Search Operating System Patches Installed on Hosts link under the Search Host Operating System Configuration Data section.

Click the Go button to search all the patches installed on all the hosts.

This will list all the hosts to which you have applied the patches. To know the exact patch that is applied click the number under the Number of Patches column.

This will show you the exact patches that were applied to that particular host.

Click the Deployments tab.

Click the Compare Configuration link under the Configuration section.

Select Database Instance from the Search drop-down list and click the Go button.

Select the first database instance and click the Continue button.

Select the second database instance and click the Compare button.

This page displays a summary list of the comparison results. It has rollup results for each category in the comparison. You can review which categories have differences and then click on the corresponding tabs to view the details. Click the System Global Area property page.

This page displays the result of comparing the system global area parameters for two databases. The system global area information is part of the database configuration that Enterprise Manager collects and stores for an Oracle database. Similarly you can compare the configurations for any of the managed target. Click the Initialization Parameters property page.

This screen will show by default all initialization parameter settings that differ between the two selected database instances. Select All from the Show Results drop-down list.

It will now show the values of all initialization parameters, including both those that are different between the two instances, as well as those that are the same.

Click the Deployments tab.

Click the Compare Configuration link under the Configuration section.

Select Host from the Search drop-down list and click the Go button.

Select the first host and click the Continue button.

Select the second host and click the Compare button.

This page summarizes the host configuration comparison results. You can view the summary of the comparison on this page, and you can navigate to more detailed information about differences in the comparison items. Click the first Different link in the Hardware & Operating System section.

This page shows the detailed results of the hardware comparison for two host configurations. The top of the page shows the name of the first host and second host involved in the comparison and the time that each host configuration was collected. The System Details table provides the system details comparison for the two hosts. The CPU table provides details on the CPU comparison for the two hosts. The IO Devices table provides details on the I/O comparison for the two hosts. The Network Interfaces configuration table provides details on the network interface comparison for the two hosts. Click the OK button.

Click the second Different link in the Hardware & Operating System section.

This page shows detailed results of the operating system comparison for two host configurations. The comparison Summary table displays summary information about the properties, file systems, packages, and patches that were compared for the two hosts. The General Information table displays a summary comparison of the operating systems for the two hosts. The Operating System Properties table displays a comparison of the operating system properties for the two hosts.

Click the Configuration History link under the Configuration section.

Select Database Instance from the Category drop-down list and click the flashlight icon next to the Target Name field.

Select any database instance and click the Select button.

Click the Go button.

It will display the search results of configuration changes made to this database. It shows the date and time the change was discovered by a configuration data collection, the type of change,and more.

By default you will be navigating to the Policy Violations page. Click the number under the Violation Count column for the Open Ports policy violation.

The Policy Violation Details page provides detailed information about violations of a specific policy rule. This shows a detailed view of the violation, including how many objects were in violation, the impact, recommendations to fix it, and other details. Click the target affected by the Open Port Policy

Scroll down to the Related Link sections and click the Metric and Policy Settings link.

Click the Policies property page.

Click the pencil like icon for the Open Alert policy to edit it.

Once a policy has been associated with a target, circumstances may dictate that the policy evaluation settings be updated. The Edit Policy Rule Settings page provides you the opportunity to change the policy settings to better reflect your ever-changing environment. From this page you can can do the following:

1. Policy evaluation: Enabled or Disabled
2. Importance Settings
3. Ports to test for
4. Ports to exclude
5. Add the corrective action
6. Select if a metric can override settings

Click the Continue button to save the edited settings.

Click the OK button to save the changes.

Click OK to confirm.

Click the Policies tab.

Click the Compliance Score (%) column heading to find the target with the lowest compliance score.

This way you can find the targets that have the lowest compliance score and change the settings.

Click the Library subtab.

Click on first policy Access to ALL_SOURCE View link.

The View Policy Rule Defaults page summarizes the default settings for the policy rule. This allows you to drill-down into the details of the policy's configuration. If the EM user has the privileges set, you can customize these settings. To customize these settings for a particular policy rule click the Associations subtab.

You will customize the settings for the Open Ports policy rule. To do that, enter Open Ports in the Policy Rule contains field and click the Go button.

Select any one of the targets and click the Edit Policy Rule Settings button.

From this page you can enable/disable the policy rule, change the importance level, change the parameter value, associate a corrective action with the policy rule and so on. After you customize the policy rule to your needs click the OK button to save the changes.

Note: You can customize the policy rules for more than one target at a time using Monitoring Templates.

You can notice that the policy rule is updated. Click the Library subtab to know about the advance search feature.

Click the Advanced Search link.

Specify the word password in the Policy Rules field and click the Go button.

This will list all the policy rules pertaining to passwords.

Click the Targets tab.

Click the Host with the lowest compliance score.

Click the Policy Trend Overview link to determine if, over the past month, the compliance posture for the selected host is improving, staying the same or getting worse.

Select Last 31 Days from the View Data drop-down list.

Note: Policy trend overview data might take up to six hours, after target discovery, to display in the time series charts.

Expand the Monitoring reports.

Expand the Alerts and Policy Violations section.

Click the 20 Most Common Alerts and Policy Violations report.

This report shows the top 20 most common alerts (metric) and violations for a given time period. "Cleared" shows the count of alerts or violations cleared at the selected time period. "New" shows the count of alerts or violations occurred at the selected time period. "Current" shows the count of alerts or violations, which are still open. “New” count is considered for taking the top 20 most common violations. “Relevant Targets Affected (%)” shows the percentage of targets affected for the target type in the “Target Type” column, during the selected period of time and based on the counts in the “New” column.