Credentials are the heart of OEM Cloud Control security. When an administrator logs into OEM Cloud Control, they are only allowed to view basic monitoring information that is collected by the Agent. Additional information that is obtained by connecting to the Oracle database instance is done through individual credentials for each user. This allows database […]
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c has been enhanced to provide support for the management of the entire lifecycle of the targets that it is managing. This includes the ability not only to deploy the software necessary for running the targets, such as OS, database, middleware, and applications, but also to handle monitoring, change management, […]
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You can monitor various aspects of Exalogic Elastic Cloud from OEM Cloud Control 12c. Note that the Exalogic Elastic Cloud is considered a system target, not a group target. Following are the different types of Exalogic Elastic cloud targets you can manage from OEM Cloud Control 12c. Application deployments WebLogic domains IB switch Coherence […]
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Change management is an important part of lifecycle management. In previous releases of OEM Grid Control this capability was part of the Change Management Pack. This is now part of the Lifecycle Management Pack. Change management allows you to track and report changes that have been made to targets under management of Cloud Control. This […]
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In recent years, virtualization has changed the way we look at computing. Instead of using many different computer systems for different tasks, with virtualization, we can use a single system to host many applications. Not only has virtualization increased in popularity, but it has also sparked new hardware CPU innovation, including Intel VT-x and AMD-V […]
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Compliance Management has two separate pieces: monitoring of compliance to business best practices and monitoring of real-time configuration changes. Monitoring of compliance to business best practices is a process where the system is regularly analyzed and deviations from compliance to business best practices are reported. This allows for decisions to […]
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Although there’s no “one size fits all” diagnostic method for all your performance issues, following is the general tuning approach recommended by Oracle to tackle complex middleware application performance problems. 5 Steps recommended by Oracle: 1. First, rule out all non-middleware infrastructure issues causing the performance problem. 2. Narrow down the scope of the problem by ascertaining […]
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is constantly taking inventory of the configuration of the targets that it is monitoring. This information is saved and available for instant access and comparison. Information is collected on database configuration, host configuration, middleware, storage, and so on. Cloud Control can then be used to search for specific configuration information, […]
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The biggest challenge of explaining efficient ways of using the VARCHAR2 data type is the fact that its table storage implementation is often confused with its PL/SQL implementation. VARCHAR2 is named for the VARiable length of CHARacters, which implies dynamic allocation of storage. This mechanism is usually efficient from the perspective of persistent tables because […]
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Running multiple SQL Server and Oracle database platforms to support different applications is the norm for many IT organizations today. While in many cases the two different database platforms often operate as independent islands there are also times you might need to integrate the two database platforms to perform lookups, queries and other operations that […]
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Relations between countries, or between departments in a company, or between users and developers, are usually the product of particular historical circumstances, which may define current relations even though the circumstances have long since passed. The result of this can be abnormal relations, or, in current parlance, dysfunctional relations. History and circumstance often have the […]
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All of the Oracle databases, whether physical or logical, must be created as a physical standby first. The tools used to create the standby are RMAN, Data Guard Broker, or Oracle Grid Control. Steps must be completed on both primary and standby servers. However, the steps on the primary database need to be done only […]
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