Enterprise Manager enables you to quickly view key information about members of a group, eliminating the need to navigate to individual member targets to check on availability and performance. You can view the entire group on a single screen and drill down to obtain further details. The Group Home page provides the following sections:

• A General section that displays the general information about the group, such as the Owner, Group Type, and whether the group is privilege propagating. You can drill down to the Edit Group page to enable or disable privilege propagating by clicking on the Privilege Propagating field.

• A Status section that shows how many member targets are in Up, Down, and Unknown states. For nested groups, this segment shows how many targets are in up, down, and unknown states across all its sub-groups. The status roll up count is based on the unique member targets across all sub-groups. Consequently, even if a target appears more than once in sub-groups, it is counted only once in status roll ups.

• An Overview of Incidents and Problems section that displays the summary of incidents on members of the group that have been updated in the recent period of time. It also shows a count of open problems as well as problems updated in recent period of time.

  The rolled up information is shown for all the member targets regardless of their status. The status roll up count is based on the unique member targets across all sub-groups. Consequently, even if a target appears more than once in sub-groups, its alerts are counted only once in alert roll ups.

  Click the number in the Problems column to go to the Incident Manager page to search, view, and manage exceptions and issues in your environment. By using Incident Manager, you can track outstanding incidents and problems.

• A Compliance Summary section that shows the compliance of members of the group against the compliance standards defined for the group. This section also shows a rollup of violations by severity (critical, warning, minor warning) as well as the average compliance score(%).

• A Job Activity section that displays a summary of jobs for the targets in the group whose start date is within the last 7 days. You can click Show to see the latest run or all runs. Click View to select and reorder the columns that appear in the table or to adjust scrolling and expanding the table.

• A Blackouts section that displays information about current or pending blackouts. You can also create a blackout from this section.

• A Patch Recommendations section that displays the Oracle patch recommendations that are applicable to your enterprise. You can view patch recommendations by classification or target type.

  You can navigate to My Oracle Support to view all recommendations by clicking the All Recommendations link.

• An Inventory and Usage section where you can view inventory summaries for deployments such as hosts, database installations, and fusion middleware installations on an enterprise basis or for specific targets. You can also view inventory summary information in the context of different dimensions. From here you can click See Details to display the Inventory and Usage page.

• A Configuration Changes section that displays the number of configuration changes to the group in the previous 7 days. You can click the number to display a page that displays detailed information about the changes. Enterprise Manager automatically collects configuration information for group targets and changes to configurations are recorded and may be viewed from that page.

Viewing a Group

To view a group, follow these steps:

1. From the Enterprise Manager Console, choose Targets then choose Groups. A summary table lists all defined groups.

2. Click the desired group to go to the Home page of that group.

You can use View By filters (located in the upper right corner of the home page) to change the view of the homepage to members of targets of a specific type. When you do this, the Group homepage refreshes to only show information for targets of that type. Additional regions of interest might display. For example, DBAs might switch to the Database filter to view information specifically on Database targets in the group.

You can also personalize the home page by clicking the Actions icon in the upper right corner of each region on the home page to move that region up or down on the page. You can also expand or contract a region by clicking the arrow icon in the upper left corner of each region.

You can also navigate to other management operations on the group using the Group menu. For example, you can view all the members in a group by choosing Member from the Group menu. Likewise you can view the Membership History of the group by choosing Membership History from the Group menu.