Grouping Exalogic Machine Hardware Assets; Prerequisites; Creating The Exalogic Top-Level Group - Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Owner's Manual

17.9 Grouping Exalogic Machine Hardware Assets

This section describes how to group the Exalogic-specific managed assets to reflect
their physical containment hierarchy.
It contains the following topics:
•

Prerequisites

•

Creating the Exalogic Top-Level Group

• Creating a Sub-Group for Exalogic Compute Nodes
• Creating a Sub-Group for the Storage Appliance
• Creating a Sub-Group for InfiniBand Switches
• Adding Assets to a Group
17.9.1 Prerequisites
Before grouping Exalogic-specific managed assets, ensure that all Exalogic-specific
hardware assets, such as compute nodes, storage appliance, and network switches are
discovered and managed. However, you can extend or modify the groups at any time.
For more information, see
In addition, verify that all Exalogic-specific assets are listed under Managed Assets, as
shown in the example
17.9.2 Creating the Exalogic Top-Level Group
To create a top-level group for Exalogic machine assets, complete the following steps:
On the right navigation pane named Actions, click Create Group under Organize.
1.
The Configure/Modify Group screen is displayed.
In the Configure Group screen, in the Group Name field, enter a name for the
2.
new Exalogic group. For example, enter Exalogic. Enter a description in the
Description field. Select the Top Level (Root) option as Location. See
Discovering and Managing Exalogic Machine
(Figure 17-9).
Monitoring the Exalogic Machine Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 17-9
Grouping Exalogic Machine Hardware Assets
Hardware.
Figure 17-4.