Viewing the Best Access Point Implementers (and their History) for Various Operations Supported for a Target

Enterprise Manager not only provides a tabulated view of the capabilities of the access points but also highlights the ones that are considered best implementers or best suited for a certain metric or action.

Access points are channels of communication using which a software or a hardware deployment can be monitored in Enterprise Manager. They are upload points through which data is collected and uploaded to Oracle Management Service. An access point can have the capability to either collect metric data or take action against the target, and sometimes, two or more access points can have overlapping set of capabilities. Access points are termed best implementers when they are best suited for a certain metric or action.

The best implementer is determined when an event that changes the capability map for the target occurs. Events that affect the capability map for the target include agent going down, access points being down or broken, capability metric for an access point reporting a different priority, and capability metric reporting a new or removed capabilities. Thus, when an access point defined as the best implementer is unavailable to collect the metric, Enterprise Manager automatically switches over the next best implementer to collect the same metric data.

To view the best access point implementers for a multi-access point target, follow these steps:

  1. From the Targets menu, select All Targets.
  2. On the All Targets page, select a multi-access point target (for example, System Infrastructure Server, System Infrastructure Switch, and so on.)
  3. On the Home page, from the target-specific menu, select Monitoring, then select Access Points - Current Capability Map.
  4. On the Access Points - Current Capability Map page, view a list of access points and their capabilities. Select Show Only the Best Implementers. To further filter the list and view the history of the best implementers, select the start date and end date, and click Search.