Recent Posts by Leon Shaner

Introduction: This Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center blog entry provides tips for using Ops Center to update Solaris using Live Upgrade on Solaris 10 and Boot Environments on Solaris 11. Why use Live Upgrade? Live Upgrade (LU) can significantly reduce downtime associated with patching Live Upgrade avoids dropping to single-user mode for long periods of time during patching Live Upgrade relies on an Alternate Boot Environment (ABE)/(BE), which is patched while in multi-user...

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides numerous ways to deploy content, such as through OS Update Profiles, or as part of an OS Provisioning plan or combinations of those and other "Install Software" capabilities of Deployment Plans.  This short "how-to" blog will highlight an alternative way to deploy content using Operational Profiles. Usually we think of Operational Profiles as a way to execute a simple "one-time" script to perform a basic system...

One of the more significant new features in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c is the ability to install Ops Center on Oracle Solaris 11, and to deploy and manage systems running Solaris 11.  The Solaris 11 capabilities are in addition to the analogous features for Solaris 10 and Linux, which can all be handled from the same Ops Center infrastructure. When the Ops Center Enterprise Controller (EC) is installed on a system running Solaris 11, the EC can create a Solaris...

(Short attention-span? Skip to the video.  Don't forget to come back. *smile*) Acceleration of Technology Adoption Some of the most interesting and rewarding periods in IT Service Management, are when it is finally time to turn the corner and begin to adopt and deploy new technologies.  The greater the business need and the more polished the technology is in addressing requirements, the faster the relative rate of adoption.  When technologies advance in a structured way, we...