Oracle Enterprise Manager

Immediately after we ship a new release of Enterprise Manager Grid Control, we always get a ton on questions on the availability of the various O/S port. 10gR5 was of no exception. Our mailboxes were flooded with inquiries from both the Oracle field and customers.

The good news is that first agent port has arrived.

Grid Control agent is now available for Linux on Itanium. You will find it as part of the mass agent deployment package that is available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) as well as eDelivery.

Here is the OTN URL: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oem/index.html

The even better news is that we have published a My Oracle Support (a.k.a. Metalink) note to disclose the port release schedule. Look for note 793512.1. Publishing release date is always a tricky proposition. On one hand, it makes sense to do it because customers want to have advanced notice in order to plan ahead. On the other hand, we don't want to over promise and under deliver. So take the dates for what they are. We are working hard to get all the ports out.

One of the most frequently asked questions that our customers ask about Oracle Enterprise Manager is its ability to integrate with other management tools. This is understandable. As good as Enterprise Manager is at managing Oracle database and applications, many IT departments already use other tools for managing their network, keeping track of their storage, and running their helpdesks. Enterprise Manager provides a rich selection of approaches for exchanging data with other tools. These integration capabilities just got better this week with the release of three new connectors, which include:

- Management Connector for HP Service Center
- Management Connector for HP Service Manager
- Management Connector for HP OpenView Operations Manager

These three connectors join a growing collection of similar connectors for integrating Oracle Enterprise Manager with Siebel Helpdesk, BMC Remedy Helpdesk, PeopleSoft Helpdesk, Microsoft Operations Manager and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console. They help automate ITIL problem and incident management processes by automatically generating helpdesk tickets, forwarding alerts, and synchronizing status updates bi-directionally.

Because these integrations are done at the Enterprise Manager platform level, they benefit all the different users of Enterprise Manager from DBAs to infrastructure administrators to application administrators. In other words, if you want to use Enterprise Manager to manage Oracle E-Business Suite or Siebel or a Java EE app running in Oracle Weblogic Server, and you still want to use HP tools to carry out other tasks, you can now use these connectors to achieve the integration.

More information about Enterprise Manager's Connectors can be found here.

Read the press release here.

Solaris (SPARC) and 64-bit Linux (x86-64) releases of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 are now available. You may download them from eDelivery or OTN. The link to the OTN page is included below.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oem/index.html

A comprehensive whitepaper on managing your Oracle Identity Management environment is now available on OTN. The paper covers three distinct phases of an Oracle Identity Management system deployment– Implement, Manage and Optimize, and provides an overview of the various tools and methods that you can use to achieve a superior ownership experience while keeping a lid on the systems management costs.

Through the Oracle Management Pack for Identity Management (the Identity Management Pack), you can start centralizing the management of your Oracle Identity Management environment on Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control. The Identity Management Pack leverages Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control’s advanced management capabilities, to provide an integrated and top-down solution for your Oracle Identity Management environment. In addition to the Identity Management Pack, Oracle provides a set of tools that complement the pack and that cover the entire Identity Management lifecycle. The whitepaper describes how you may use the Identity Management Pack as well as other Oracle tools to manage your Oracle Identity Management environment.

Check out the whitepaper on OTN:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/pdf/twp_idm_mgmt.pdf

Version 10.2.0.5 of OCAMM (Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler) was recently released. This is the ex QuickVision product from the ClearApp acquisition last year. It is doing very well in the Enterprise Manager portfolio. In this new release, it has grown to cover additional middleware and application products. So now, in addition to the existing support (J2EE, BPEL, Portal…), it lets you model and monitor deployments of the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) as well as AIA process integrations. Those metadata-rich environments fit very naturally in the OCAMM approach of discovering the distributed model from metadata and then collecting and reporting usage metrics across the whole system in the context of that model.

For a complete list of improvements over release 10.2.0.4.2, refer to the release notes, where we see this list of new features:

• Oracle Service Bus Support: Oracle Service Bus (formerly called Aqualogic Service Bus) versions 2.6, 2.6.1, 3.0, and 10gR3 are now supported.
• Oracle AIA Support: Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) 2.2.1 and 2.3 are now supported.
• WLS and WLP Support: WebLogic Server and WebLogic Portal version 10.3 are now supported.
• Agent Deployment Added: Agent deployment added to CAMM Administration UI to streamline configuration of new resources


• Testing Added in Resource Configuration: Connectivity parameter testing added in resource configuration


• Testing Added in Repository Configuration: Connectivity parameter testing added for CAMM database repository configuration


• EJB and Web Services Support: EJB and Web Services Annotation are now supported

You can get the bits on OTN. Here is the installation and configuration guide and here is the user’s guide.

[Originally posted here.]