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CHAPTER 3. Map

The Map system allows you to create customized graphical views of network objects. You can modify and save these maps of your network environment. You can also create user-defined groups of network objects to help you organize the objects in the maps. With the Map customized views, you can manage and monitor a subset or group of objects in your system. You simply create a specific map comprised of databases, groups, listeners, names servers, and nodes that you need to monitor, then recall the map whenever you need to view it. The topics discussed in this chapter include:

Map Window

The Map window provides an area for constructing a graphical custom view of the network environment. See Figure 3 - 1 for an illustration of a Map window.

Figure 3 - 1. Map Window

The Map window can be hidden or shown by selecting Map Window in the Console View menu. You can also hide or show the window by clicking on the world icon in the Console toolbar.

Manipulating Map Views

Maps are created by dragging and dropping databases, groups, nodes, names servers, and listeners from the Navigator tree into the Map window. You can create, update, and save any number of maps. In addition, you can add a bitmap as a background to the map for visual identification or to graphically show the location of nodes. For example, you can use a map drawing of a city or state for the background of your map.

Maps can be quickly displayed by selecting the map name from pull-down list in the Console toolbar or from the Show Map item in the Map menu.

You can create map views of subsets of nodes and services to be managed. Map views might be based on:

For example, the administrator who is responsible for the databases in the San Francisco office can construct a map view containing only those databases. The administrator responsible for the Human Resources department in Chicago can create another map view containing the subset of nodes in Chicago. The background of the maps can be set to a bitmap of either San Francisco or Chicago to help identify the map view.

User-Defined Groups

You can create user defined groups of network objects to further organize your network view.

For example, you could create a group of databases called CHI_MAIL that contains the mail databases in Chicago. You could add this group to a map view that contains all the databases in the U.S. or you could add this group to a user-defined group of all databases in Chicago.

Grouping nodes or services can simplify tasks that are applied to all members of the group. For example, in order to execute a SQL script on all the databases in the CHI_MAIL group, you can use the Job Scheduling services to schedule a job on the group. The job that executes the SQL script will be scheduled on all the databases in the group.

See Figure 3 - 1 [*] for an illustration of a Map user-defined group.

Status Monitors

You can determine at a glance the status of an object or user-defined group on a map. If the object or group has been registered as an event destination, the state of the event condition is graphically displayed. Each object, such as a node or database, that is a registered destination displays a signal flag that graphically depicts the status of the event on the object.

User-defined groups inherit the worst state of any of the members. If one service in a group is down, the group displays a circle with a slash through it.

Note: For status monitors to display on a map object, an agent must be servicing the object.

Note: For more information on events, see "Event Management" [*].

Expanding Objects

All objects in a map can be expanded by double-clicking on the object's icon. You can double-click on some objects to open property sheets. The property sheets allow you to both view and alter the definitions of the objects.

See Figure 3 - 1 [*] for an illustration of an expanded node in the Map window.

Note: For more information about dialog boxes and property sheets, see "Dialog Boxes" [*] and "Property Sheets" [*].

Groups

When you double-click on a group icon, the group expands to display the objects in the group. You can drag and drop objects from the Map, the Navigator tree, and other groups to add them to the group. You can delete objects by selecting them and pressing the Delete key.

Nodes

When you double-click on a node icon, the node expands to display the databases, listeners, and names servers on the node.

Note: The objects cannot be altered in the expanded node window.

Databases

When you double-click on a database, the database instance property sheet displays. If the connection to the database fails for any reason, the Login Information dialog box displays.

Note: For information on the user preferences, see the "Console User Preferences" [*]. For information about connecting to an instance of a database, see "Connecting to an Instance" [*].

The database instance property sheet contains the Status, Startup, and Shutdown pages. You cannot start up or shut down a database instance unless you have connected to the database as SYSDBA or SYSOPER.

Note: For information on the database instance property sheet, see "Managing Instances and Sessions" [*].

Launching Tools from a Map

You can launch a database tool using an object in the map. Select a database icon in the Map window, then select a DBA tool from the Tools Application menu. You are connected to the database according to the user credentials that have been set up for the system. For more information on user credentials, see "Console User Preferences" [*].

Map Menu

The Map menu allows you to customize and manage network views. See Figure 3 - 1 [*] for an illustration of the Map menu.

Create Map Creates a new map with the name you enter. See "Creating, Modifying, and Removing Maps" [*].
Modify Map Modifies the bitmap background of a map. See "Creating, Modifying, and Removing Maps" [*].
Remove Map Deletes an existing map from the current repository. See "Creating, Modifying, and Removing Maps" [*].
Show Map Displays a list of saved maps for your selection. Select a map from the list to display it in the Map window.
You can also select a map from the Map pull-down list in the console toolbar.
Save Map As Saves the current map with the name you enter.
Enter a name in the Map Name field of the Save Map As dialog box and click OK. You can also select a map name in the Existing Maps list and click OK. The maps are stored in the repository.
Note: If the map has been updated but not saved, you are prompted to save when you select Create Map from the Map menu or Exit from the File menu.

Create Group Adds a new group to the current map or a selected group. See "Creating, Modifying, and Removing Groups" [*].
Modify Group Modifies the bitmap background of a group. See "Creating, Modifying, and Removing Groups" [*].
Remove Groups Removes an existing group from the current map or group, or deletes the group from the entire system. See "Creating, Modifying, and Removing Groups" [*].
Remove Selection Deletes the selected item from the map window.
You can also delete an object from the current map or group by selecting the object and pressing the Delete key.

Creating, Modifying, and Removing Maps

You can create, modify, and remove maps with the Map menu options.

Create Map

To create a new map:

Note: If you check the box and do not enter the name of the bitmap file in the Bitmap File field, no bitmap will be used.

Adding or Deleting Objects in a Map

To add or delete objects in the map:

The map is automatically saved when you close the map. You can also select the Save Map As menu option to save the new map.

Modify Map

To change the bitmap background of a map:

    1. 3.1 Click on the empty Use Background Bitmap box if you want to add a bitmap to the background of the map. After you check the box, enter the name of an existing bitmap file in the Bitmap File field or click the Browse button to locate the file with the standard Windows file selection dialog box.
    1. 3.2 f the box already has a check and you want to change the bitmap, enter a new name in the Bitmap File field or click the Browse button to locate the file with the standard Windows file selection dialog box.
    1. 3.3 If the box already has a check and you want to remove the bitmap background, click on the box to remove the check the box and the bitmap from the map.

Remove Map

To delete an existing map from the current database repository:

Note: Groups that are displayed on the removed map are not dropped from the system. The groups remain in the Navigator tree.

Example

The following example illustrates how to create a new map.

The new map is listed in the pull-down map list and in the Show Map option of the Map menu.

Creating, Modifying, and Removing Groups

You can create, modify, and remove groups with the Map menu items.

Creating a Group

To create a new group in the current map or group:

Note: If you check the box and do not enter the name of the bitmap file in the Bitmap File field, no bitmap will be used.

The new group icon appears in the current map. The group is empty. You need to add objects to the group.

The new group can be added to other maps and groups. To add an existing group to the current map or another group, drag and drop the group from the Navigator tree or a different group into the map or group window to add the object.

Creating a Group with the Navigator

To create a new group in the Navigator tree:

Adding or Deleting Objects in a Group

To add or delete objects in a group window:

Note: Only one instance of an item can exist in the group. The objects must be of the group type.

Note: When you add or delete objects in a group, the updates are reflected in every occurrence of the group. Any updates to a group are automatically saved as the updates are made.

To add or delete objects from a group in the Navigator tree:

Modify Group

To modify the bitmap background of a group:

    1. 3.1 Click on the empty Use Background Bitmap box if you want to add a bitmap to the background of the group. After you check the box, enter the name of an existing bitmap file in the Bitmap File field or click the Browse button to locate the file with the standard Windows file selection dialog box.
    1. 3.2 f the box already has a check and you want to change the bitmap, enter a new name in the Bitmap File field or click the Browse button to locate the file with the standard Windows file selection dialog box.
    1. 3.3 If the box already has a check and you want to remove the bitmap background, click on the box to remove the check the box and the bitmap from the group.

Remove Groups

To remove a group from the current map or group, or from the entire system:

Note: If you remove a group from the current map or group, you can add the group again at a later time. If you remove the group from the system, the group is deleted from database repository and must be created again.

Additional methods for removing groups are:

Example

The following example illustrates how to create a new user-defined map group.

The new group can be added to other maps or groups by dragging and dropping the group from the Navigator tree.


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