MANAGE YOUR COMPLETE DATA CENTER WITH ORACLE ENTERRPISE MANAGER 10G GRID CONTROL RELEASE 3:

IT organizations are continuously challenged to keep up with evolutions in business and technology, while striving to remain competitive by finding solutions that will simplify and lower the cost of managing their systems. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control provides this solution. Enterprise Manager is Oracles single, integrated solution for administering, operating and monitoring applications and systems. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 Grid Control provides enhanced manageability and automation for your grid. It also extends the manageability to non-Oracle management frameworks and middleware.

Oracle is the only applications vendor that has a complete and integrated management solution for your applications, your software infrastructure and other IT components that support these applications including Oracle and non-Oracle middleware and databases, storage, networks, and hosts.

RELEASE 3 KEY BENEFITS:

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  Support for Oracle Applications and Application Service Management.
  
  
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  Enhances Automation.
  
  
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  Includes Configuration Management with Compliance Tracking.
  
  
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  Supports Non-Oracle Management Frameworks and Middleware.

Downloads :

Grid Control Release 3

Grid Control Release 3 Data Sheet

With the DST Changes it affects the Enterprise Manager Grid Control -Oracle Management Server  and Management Agents

Metalink Lookup :

DST Patch issues on  Metalink Home page

Impact of 2007 USA DST changes on Grid Control Release 2 - Preparation and Patching guidelines (Metalink Note ID :409225.1)

Forum on Metalink :

For discussions ,current issues you might face - check if its on the Forum on Metalink. (Check the screenshot to know which Forums to look for: SChans blog )

Web Casts on the Issue:

Todays webcast :  Oracle Database & EBS Applications combined overview for APAC

90 minute overview of Database (30 mins) and Apps issues (30 mins), with QA (30 mins)

Date :Thu 15 Feb 2007

Web Conference Link

Language - English

Timings across zones:

GMT  04:00  Singapore (+8) - 12:00

EST (-5) -23:00 (-1 day)  PST (-8) 20:00 (-1 day)
CET (+1) 05:00

Web casts Schedules:

Refer to the note on Metalink (Note ID : 412789.1)

Replay of the earlier Webcasts:

Oracle Database & client 

      1 hour presentation, followed by 1 hour QA.

For the webcasts that were recorded a replay link , this includes the presentation and QA parts of the webcast.

(If it doesnt open up directly, from the same page search for Conference ID:65649157 and to Password to access -123456)

A presentation-only recording can be downloaded as an Oracle eSeminar (self extracting executable containing all the data) from the Oracle FTP site here (23.6 MB).The latest slides used in these presentations can also be downloaded from the Oracle FTP site here (237 KB).

The Oracle Management Agents can be patched up with the DST patch through the Patch Wizard of the Enterprise Manager.

Before you start:

• Read through the Metalink Note -Step 7, before patching. (Note ID-409225.1)

How to patch:

Follow the illustrations in the OBE (Oracle By Example) here , to do Agent patching from the Grid Control.

Enter the DST patch ID for Agents  , while executing.

Key Advantages of Patching from Grid Control:

• Multiple Management Agents can be patched simultaneously from the Enterprise Manager.
  
• Stopping and Starting of the Agents is taken care,without requiring any manual intervention.
  
• View step by step status updates from the Grid Control ,during the patching process.

Software library feature was introduced in Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) version 10.2.0.1. Software Library serves as a repository to store certified software images (for example Oracle Database, operating system, Oracle Real Application Clusters, third party softwares, etc.) and other related entities (scripts, templates). These can then be utilized with the provisioning and patching process through Deployment Procedures.

Software Library can store the following types of entities:

Components: These entities represent the primary building blocks of the provisioning framework. A component can represent Operating system software, Oracle software or any third party software and applications.
 
Directives: These are constructs used to associate scripts with software components. These scripts contain directions on how to interpret and process the contents of a particular component. Directives encapsulate the script, the command line used to invoke the script, and the script configuration properties. Directives are contained within a file that are stored in the Software Library and referenced from the software components that employ them.
 
Images: Images can be described as a collection of components along with the necessary directives that create a deployable configuration, which can be provisioned on a single, or set of target machines.
 
Network Templates, Hardware Templates, Storage Templates: Network templates, Hardware templates and Storage templates are used to define the network, hardware and disk layout configuration of the target machines respectively. The template method ensures repeatability and flexibility. These entities are associated with the Bare Metal Provisioning application of the Oracle Enterprise Manager and are used to provision software on bare metal and live servers.
 
Software library entities can be individually maintained and upgraded with versions, states and maturity levels with the various functions available within. The picture below shows the options available for it :

The Software Library concept is the backbone for the various Provisioning and Patching features of the Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack. The usage will be discussed in the upcoming articles on the features of the Enterprise Manager 10g R3 Provisioning Pack.

Read  more about Using Software Library:

Look in the document list for  - Oracle® Enterprise Manager Advanced Configuration 10g Release 3 (10.2.0.3.0) - Chapter 15: Using a Software Library.

Overview and Process: Daylight Savings Time (DST) patching for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

• Wednesday, Feb 28th 8-9am PST
  Web conference: Click here
  
• Wednesday, Feb 28th 4-5pm PST
  Web conference: Click here

In the Webcast

Learn about patching Enterprise Manager to accommodate the upcoming changes to the dates for Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.  If you or your customer has an Enterprise Manager targets managed as a part of any of these timezones, you should attend this webcast.

In this webcast, you will learn:

• What time zones are affected
  
• How to determine what needs to be patched
  
• What does not need to be patched
  
• The impact of not patching
  
• Best practices on applying the agent patches

There will also be an opportunity for live Q&A with the speakers and members of the development team.

Audio Feed Dial-In Instructions

Toll Free (US) 888-455-1007 Passcode: patch
Toll 1-210-839-8195 Passcode: patch

Webcast Conference Instructions :

Click on the Web conference links (above) and follow up from step 4 .

If unable to open up the link :

1. Go to the Oracle Conferencing website:  http://conference.oracle.com
2. In the Join Conference box, enter the conference id:
  * 8:00 am PST conference id:  70802805
  * 4:00 pm PST conference id:  70802949
3. In the Join Conference box, enter the conference key box patch
4. In the Join Conference box, enter your first and last name
5. Click Join Conference

We recommend that you go to the Oracle Conference website ahead of the meeting to ensure that your PC has no issues with the conference initialization process.   The first time you log into this application, it takes extra time, so please try to log in in advance of the actual meeting.
If you have issues, the Quick Tutorial button below the Join Conference Box may be of help.