I installed Oracle Grid Control 11g months ago and left it with typical configuration. Recently it becomes a little bit unstable and did a quick audit. Here are my first 2 finding but and will do a deeper dive into into if only I will find some more time.
Memory settings
In default configuration of Weblogic Management server running Grid Control instance maximum number of Java stack memory (parameter -Xmx) is unset and it is using default value of 512 MB. It is too small for big installation with many agents and concurrent users. Weblogic configuration allow users to set USER_MEM_ARGS variable with Java memory settings in starting script which will be used instead of MEM_ARGS variable. I has goint to change startManagedWebLogic.sh file as I want to keep default values for admin server but I found better solution on Oracle Enterprise Manager blog in "Increasing the JAVA heap size of the OMS" section. Instead of startManagedWebLogic.sh you need to edit startEMServer.sh file
and add following section just before last line
It was very typical for old Oracle Application Server or Grid Control 10g that logs weren't rotated in default configurations. I have seen this many times when I have been asked to do some troubleshooting. After installation of Grid Control 11g together with Weblogic I was thinking how many logs has been left without rotation this time. Most of them looks OK but I found one mod_wl_ohs.log belonging to WebTier (Oracle HTTP server) which is still not rotated. This log file is configured in this configuration file mod_wl_ohs.conf and it is quite easy to add rotation to it. As all rotated Apache logs this line
Memory settings
In default configuration of Weblogic Management server running Grid Control instance maximum number of Java stack memory (parameter -Xmx) is unset and it is using default value of 512 MB. It is too small for big installation with many agents and concurrent users. Weblogic configuration allow users to set USER_MEM_ARGS variable with Java memory settings in starting script which will be used instead of MEM_ARGS variable. I has goint to change startManagedWebLogic.sh file as I want to keep default values for admin server but I found better solution on Oracle Enterprise Manager blog in "Increasing the JAVA heap size of the OMS" section. Instead of startManagedWebLogic.sh you need to edit startEMServer.sh file
and add following section just before last line
if [ "${SERVER_NAME}" != "EMGC_ADMINSERVER" ] ; then
USER_MEM_ARGS="-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:CompileThreshold=8000 -XX:PermSize=128m"
export USER_MEM_ARGS
fi
Log rotation It was very typical for old Oracle Application Server or Grid Control 10g that logs weren't rotated in default configurations. I have seen this many times when I have been asked to do some troubleshooting. After installation of Grid Control 11g together with Weblogic I was thinking how many logs has been left without rotation this time. Most of them looks OK but I found one mod_wl_ohs.log belonging to WebTier (Oracle HTTP server) which is still not rotated. This log file is configured in this configuration file mod_wl_ohs.conf and it is quite easy to add rotation to it. As all rotated Apache logs this line
WLLogFile ${ORACLE_INSTANCE}/diagnostics/logs/${COMPONENT_TYPE}/${COMPONENT_NAME}/mod_wl_ohs.log
should be started with rotatelog command:WLLogFile "|${ORACLE_HOME}/ohs/bin/rotatelogs ${ORACLE_INSTANCE}/diagnostics/logs/${COMPONENT_TYPE}/${COMPONENT_NAME}/mod_wl_ohs.log 43200"
Update:
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c (like Cloud) has been just officially presented. There is still not documentation but you can download and install it.
regards,
Marcin
