Oracle Enterprise Manager

The Enterprise Manager product release parade continues. Oracle just released three new management packs: Management Pack for Oracle WebCenter Suite, Management Pack Plus for SOA and Management Pack for Websphere Portal.

There are several notable things about these packs. First, they are for both Oracle and 3rd party middleware products, continuing our effort to help Oracle customers proactively manage Oracle products and 3rd party technologies often used with Oracle. Second, they leverage the Composite Application Monitoring and Modeler technology that we acquired last year in order to take Enterprise Manager's ability to discover, model, monitor, diagnose and report on the usage of various Java EE and SOA applications and the artifacts that make up these applications.

Additional product information can be found at this website.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/prod_focus/soa_mgmt.html

There is also a very nice recorded demo that shows how the tool works in action, which you may access from this link.

http://download.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/screenwatches/camm/index.html

Whenever we ship a new release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, one of the first questions that always come back to us is when we will release port X, with X being the operating system environment that a particular customer is interested in. We get this question because we typically release Enterprise Manager on Linux and Windows first, followed by port releases. The approach is similar to what other teams at Oracle do.

The wait for Enterprise Manager 10gR5 ports is now completely over! The final two ports of Enterprise Manager agents for 64-bit Windows (x86-64) and HP Tru64 Unix are now available. You may download them from both eDelivery and Oracle Technology Network.

Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10gR5 is now available on 15 different O/S platforms, the most ever. This includes support for running both Enterprise Manager Server (OMS) and agent on 7 different operating system platforms (Windows, Linux, Linux x86-64, Solaris SPARC, HP/UX PA-RISC, HP/UX Itanium, AIX 5L) and 8 additional operating system platforms for EM agents only (Power Linux, z/Linux, Linux Itanium, HP Tru64 Unix, Solaris x86, Solaris x86-64, Windows x86-64 and Windows Itanium). In addition, the port releases came out on record time - 4 months from the original 10gR5 release.

So, no more "are we there yet". 10gR5 is out in force. It is time to deploy it.