The basic Cloud Control topology consists of four core components, as depicted in Figure 1: the Cloud Control Console, the Oracle Management Agent, the Oracle Management Service, and the Oracle Management Repository. Each component can be separated by a firewall. FIGURE 1. Topology of Cloud Control core components Following is a brief description of each […]
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Let’s talk about how to maintain the physical elements in your Cloud Control environment. Cloud Control can scale for hundreds of users and thousands of targets, but only if you’re diligent about maintenance for the life of the deployment. Such maintenance is necessary regardless of the workload or size of your site. The cornerstone of […]
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Once a middleware target such as an Oracle WebLogic domain is added to Cloud Control’s list of targets, you can view the status of that target. You can view alerts generated for each managed middleware target. For both individual deployed applications, WebLogic servers and WebLogic domains, you can view the following pages by selecting Monitoring […]
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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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