Category: Enterprise Manager

In the organization I’m currently working for, the OS-patch schedule depends on PatchTuesday (PT) just as Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle are using. And PatchTuesday is, as you all know, …

or The Findings of an Failed Enterprise Manager Upgrade to OEM13.3 When Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13.3 (here just called EM 13.3) came available I read the upgrade …

A while ago I was reviewing the metric extensions of our Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13.2.0.0, we use to administer a couple of hundred databases. All acceptance and production …

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c provides the Add Standby Database wizard to create a broker configuration that includes a primary database and one or more standby database. This …

and How I resolved it …. My Way 235 … 235 … isn’t it an Interstate in Oklahoma? Is Oracle telling me that I’m now working with only 0.72% of …

The answer to using Java Management Extensions(JMX) within Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is using Metric Extensions. Metric extensions provide you with the ability to extend Oracle’s monitoring capabilities. …

or If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move. – Ellen DeGeneres In order …

After an upgrade of Oracle Enterprise Manager from 12.1.0.5 to 13.2, I wanted to deploy  a new version of the plugin oracle.sysman.db. Downloaded the new version and got to …

Situation at customer’s site: OMS 13.2 on Oracle Linux, targets are Windows machines, and a bit ancient: Windows 2008 R2. How to deploy agents on those targets? Several methods …

After the upgrade of the 12c central agent to 13c, I noticed the new central agent’s home located under the wrong – old agent – directory: /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0. Must have …

Despite the potential of Oracle Management Cloud, I’m a fan of Oracle Enterprise Manager, with its small imperfections. So when noticing a 12c Oracle Enterprise Manager on Linux, and …

Let’s clear about this: Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) is NOT a replacement of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (OEM CC) or even an equivalant. Rumours are that this will  …

For several years now, I’ve been a fan of backups controlled by Enterprise Manager (of Grid Control, or Cloud Control, call it what you want). It is relatively easy …

It’s a bit hard to choose the right heading for this article. How do you call setting up Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) – a trial environment – to explore …

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13C has been introduced as a ‘single pane of glass’. Managing and monitoring all the assets, in or out of the public cloud. But when creating …

Since Oracle Enterprise Manager 12C it is possible to allocate the costs of IT resources to the people of organizations who consume them. This is done through the use …

Recently I bumped into an annoying bug in the code of a report, wrote about it a while ago, notified Oracle. And they has confirmed that a new version …

Still loving the idea to use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a ‘kind of ‘ Software Asset Management Tool, and get regular centralized reports that tells me what Oracle software …

Heard about it at Oracle OpenWorld 2015: A new feature in Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c is the possibility to incorporate ORAchk, the healthcheck tool for databases, RAC and Engineered …

With Oracle Enterprise Manager you are able to monitor an Oracle environment as well as a non-Oracle environment, like Microsoft’s SQL Server. You are also able to exchange notifications …

Suppose your organization wants to enforce a security policy on database password strength. The DBA’s have implemented a password strength verification function in PLSQL such as the oracle supplied …

Wouldn’t be nice to get regularly informed how (in)compliant you are with Oracle licenses in an easy – centralized – way, and therefore not have to worry about visits …

Recently we added a great new feature to the ADF Performance Monitor: network and browser load time information. Now you know exactly every end-user experience of your ADF application, …

Recently I walked into something strange. I had developed a simple composite application. The application is used to read a file and route the content to another service. The …

Last week I presented at the  UKOUG’14 conference on instrumenting, analyzing, & tuning the performance of Oracle ADF applications. Instrumentation refers to an ability to monitor or measure the level of a …

In this article I will try to explain how to monitor your Dell Raid Controller with Cloud Control when running Oracle Virtual server 3.x (OVS3.x). Some time ago a …

About 2 months ago I wrote an article about setting up user authentication in Cloud control, based on their account in the Active Directory. As promised, here is the …

In my recent post I already mentioned it a little bit: Integrating your manual Data Guard Broker configuration in OEM Cloud Control can become a sort of climbing a Mountain. …

The last few months I’ve been working with Oracle Data Guard, reading lots of manuals and (parts of) books, to make smart decisions and get a solid foundation. I consider …

If your company is preferring Microsoft Active Directory as a source of truth (or at least you´re trying to) you should be using the AD as source for the …

In a series of blog articles I show how you can instrument your ADF Application key actions. Instrumenting gives visibility and insight of what is happening inside the ADF application …

In a series of blog articles I will show how you can instrument your ADF Application key actions. Instrumenting gives visibility and insight of what is happening inside the ADF …

Few days ago I had to install Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 on a fresh installed Oracle Linux 64 bit environment. OS was installed from Oracle supplied template, so this …

The AMIS ADF Performance Monitor is an advanced tool designed for measuring, analyzing, improving, and checking the performance of Oracle ADF applications. The monitor can track and collect crucial …