Recent Posts by Bethany Lapaglia

Oracle's Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (EM) product provides IT a monitoring and management solution for traditional and cloud environments.  It includes capabilities such as a complete cloud lifecycle management solution as well as the capability to manage the Oracle stack and engineered systems.  Oracle has recently released EM 13c Release 3 (13.3.0.0).  This version introduces new features for database, cloud and middleware management.  Some of the new features include...

Running a database up in the cloud is no longer a new concept.  Oracle has taken their Exadata Database Machine and provides a couple different Exadata Database Machine cloud options.  These options are referred to as Oracle Exadata Cloud Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine (collectively referred to as Exadata Cloud).  Moving a database into the cloud does not remove the requirement for proper monitoring of that database.  For those that have depended on the...

With the recent release of the new Exadata X7, it is a good time to point out an important MOS note that provides details for the proper monitoring and managing of an Exadata environment via Oracle Enterprise Manager.  The note is Exadata Storage Software Versions Supported by the Oracle Enterprise Manager Exadata Plug-in (Doc ID 1626579.1).  With the new components and software versions introduced for the Exadata Servers (including Exadata Storage software 18.1 and IB Switch...

The critical patch list for Oracle Products was released on Tuesday, July 18th.  As a result, a list of recommended patches has been compiled for both EM 13.2 and EM 12.1.0.5.  This list contains recommended patches for the EM infrastructure including the OMS, WLS, Plugins, Repository and Agent. These patches are also included in the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download patch.  For more details on these EM recommended patches for Exadata monitoring, refer to My Oracle Support...

Do you have a 13c EM environment that is setup for disaster recovery using alias hostnames for the OMS servers?  If so, you need to know about an issue that exists when trying to do tasks such as provisioning, staging of directives, etc.  This issue occurs because certain tasks in EM require the target agent to communicate back to the central agent running on the OMS server.  To do this, the target agent must be able to resolve the hostname of the central agent in which it is...

The critical patch list for Oracle Products was released on Tuesday, January 17th.  As a result, a list of recommended patches has been compiled for both EM 13.2 and EM 12.1.0.5.  This list contains recommended patches for the EM infrastructure including the OMS, WLS, Plugins, Repository and Agent. These patches are also included in the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download patch.  For more details on these EM recommended patches for Exadata monitoring, refer to My Oracle...

The critical patch list for Oracle Products was released on Tuesday, October 18th.  Also recently released was Enterprise Manager 13.2 so as a result, a list of recommended patches has been compiled for both EM 13.2 and EM 12.1.0.5.  This list contains recommended patches for the EM infrastructure including the OMS, WLS, Plugins, Repository and Agent. These patches are also included in the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download patch.  Keep in mind that since EM 13.2 was just...

As discussed in an earlier blog post, Always-On Monitoring (AOM) provides the capability of monitoring all (or a specific list of) targets using the same EM agents already deployed to these targets during complete downtime of the EM environment. It is especially useful for monitoring critical targets during planned  EM downtime such as patching and/or upgrades. In this previous blog post we reviewed the high-level steps for the setup and configuration of the AOM tool. In this...

The critical patch list for Oracle Products was released on Tuesday, July 19th.  As a result, a list of recommended patches has been compiled for EM 12c.  This list contains recommended patches for the EM infrastructure including the OMS, WLS, Plugins, Repository and Agent. These patches are also included in the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download patch. For more details and to review these EM recommended patches for Exadata monitoring, refer to My Oracle Support Note titled...