Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is the software product of management of IT infrastructure.

An exit of the third release of the Release 3 Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c software product was announced by the press service of Oracle company on July 1, 2013. The new version is available to loading.

2020: The functions automating migration of databases and a uniform panel of monitoring

On January 20, 2020 it became known that the Oracle company announced considerable improvements of the corporate platform of management of Oracle Enterprise Manager to help clients to move Oracle databases in a cloud and to simplify management of hybrid cloud environments. Upgraded version includes the functions automating migration of databases and a uniform panel of monitoring which improves visibility, control and management of hybrid IT environments.

According to the developer, means of migration of Oracle Enterprise Manager accelerate and simplify transition to a cloud thanks to flexibility and ease of use.

"Upon transition to a cloud of the organization face difficult and labor-consuming tasks of migration which are fraught with errors because of execution of operations manually. Oracle offers Autonomous Cloud services and also tools and services of migration to facilitate to clients transition to a cloud. Oracle Enterprise Manager simplifies migration thanks to the managed process with high extent of automation and provides a uniform dashboard for simple management of hybrid cloud environments", 'Wim Kukajerts, the senior vice president of Oracle for software development noted'

"The researches IDC show that more than 90% of large enterprises use a combination of local IT solutions, the selected cloud environments and public cloud services therefore effective methods of deployment of these hybrid environments, monitoring and management are required for them. The leading companies in the field of management of a corporate cloud state that the analytics is for them priority number one as the scale and complexity of hybrid and multicloud transactions require the full automation based on deep performance review and intellectual optimization", 'Mary Johnston Turner, the vice president of IDC Research for management of cloud environments 'noted

To help the enterprises to manage hybrid environments of databases and to simplify this process, Oracle Enterprise Manager offers improvements in three key areas:

• The intellectual analytics implemented on the basis of Exadata Warehouse allows to optimize performance and use Oracle Database and Exadata in own to infrastructure or cloud environment thanks to the improved planning and forecasting of use of resources. Upgraded version improves control of all hybrid system due to complex monitoring and technology management of Oracle, including the autonomous Autonomous Database database and Exadata Cloud Service.
• Complex automation and management of lifecycle. Improvements of autonomous abilities to manage and control allow the enterprises to unroll lifecycle easily Autonomous Database and Exadata Cloud Service and to raise the IT environment security level.
• Mobility and security. Complex security measures include bulk update of the software for implementation of transparent data encryption (Transparent Data Encryption), monitoring of compliance to regulatory requirements, detailed control of local installations and standards of security for Oracle Database 18c and 19c. Upgraded version of OEM also provides access to mobile application and a plug-in Grafana for expanded data visualization of Oracle Enterprise Manager.

According to the statement of the developer, Oracle expands possibilities of deployment and access to Oracle Enterprise Manager. Database managers can unroll Oracle Enterprise Manager in cloud infrastructure of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure c use of advanced methods of Oracle for ensuring high availability and means of Oracle Enterprise Manager and to get at the same time all advantages of a cloud environment.

Oracle also announced certification of Oracle Enterprise Manager by the Center for Internet Security Benchmarks center. In a certification process of a configuration of Oracle databases were compared to consensus standards of front lines the practician in the reference Oracle 12c test v2.1.0, Level 1-RDBMS. The organizations using Oracle Enterprise Manager can guarantee that configurations of their crucial assets conform to consensus standards of front lines the practician of CIS Benchmarks, claim in Oracle.

"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager to optimize work of Oracle DBMS and the Exadata complexes used for our systems, critical for business. The release of the software of Oracle Enterprise Manager allows to unroll easily Wednesdays based on the Exadata X8 complex and to continue to use complex opportunities of automated management of Oracle Enterprise Manager on all park of hybrid databases", 'Jones John, the manager on service of databases of department of technologies and innovations of Link Group company noted'

"Our key state and commercial customers and also our own experts daily use Oracle Enterprise Manager for management of Oracle databases and the Exadata park. The appeared functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager aimed at simplification of transition to Autonomous Database and application of analytics and machine learning to data of Oracle Enterprise Manager is what is necessary for ensuring the further coordinated and smooth operation of all our databases"[1], 'Eric Benner, the vice president for transformation of Mythics company, the partner of Oracle Cloud noted'

2019: Correction of 7 vulnerabilities

On October 17, 2019 it became known that the Oracle company corrected 219 dangerous vulnerabilities in different product lines. Enterprise Manager received 7 corrections. Read more here.

2014

Oracle Enterprise Manager и MySQL Database v.5.5

On September 29, 2014 the Oracle corporation announced development of integration, opportunities of Oracle Enterprise Manager and the MySQL systems for simplification of management of difficult IT environments.

New Oracle Enterprise Manager will help to manage all complex of technologies of Oracle, including MySQL, irrespective of a deployment method – directly at the enterprise or in "cloud". Adding of MySQL in an IT environment is available to users of Oracle Enterprise Manager.

As a part of the updated functionality of a system:

• Automatic detection of destination objects of MySQL
• Availability monitoring
• Set of parameters of configuring
• Control panel and performance control
• Setup of threshold values

Loading of Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL Database of version 5.5 and later versions in editions for Oracle Linux and other Linux distribution kits, Microsoft Windows Oracle Solaris is also available to users of Oracle Enterprise Manager.

New commercial expansions for MySQL Enterprise Edition:

New opportunities of MySQL Enterprise Backup:

• • Backup and data recovery in the cloud storage; allows users to execute reservation of data of MySQL directly in Amazon S3
  • the "optimistic backup" and "object-level recovery" Mechanisms (recovery at the object level) accelerating and increasing efficiency of process of backup and recovery including for big databases with infrequently upgradeable tables
  • the Functions of backup/recovery of the binary magazine (binlog) and the magazine of replications (relay log) simplifying server cloning for high availability and replication
  • the Improvements of functionality of MySQL Enterprise Audit allowing to perform filtering on accounts of users for more detailed corporate audit. This funktsonat oobenno will be useful to those companies which are obliged to undergo regular audit under the law.
  • the New functionality of MySQL Enterprise Encryption improving data protection using public and private keys, and asymmetric cryptography
  • the New repository of YUM for MySQL Enterprise Edition for service of own certified infrastructure of the customer, control of versions, updating and entering of corrections into a program code.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4

On June 4, 2014 the Oracle corporation announced release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c of Release 4. New implementation of a system helps the organizations to unroll quickly a corporate private cloud environment on the platform of technologies Oracle.

As a part of the new version of the solution more than 140 plug-ins and connecting modules. The new version of Oracle Enterprise Manager will help corporate to the sector to plan, to develop and administer private cloud environments. Enhanced capabilities of the new version will help to accelerate mastering of "cloud" calculations and to be prepared for IT services of self-service of new generation, developers consider.

Advantages

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 provides the accelerated deployment of databases, binding software and infrastructure as corporate services in a private cloud environment, implemented using the directory of services with expanded API.

• The new version gives the chance clicking of one button to unroll such environments as SOA and Oracle Active Data Guard, provides fast cloning of data for the accelerated deployment and testing of corporate applications.

• Ready means of detection of vulnerabilities of data and configurations provide the improved management of cloud services with more strict operational control using the flexible and expanded mechanism of display of vulnerabilities.

• Management of databases is improved

• The new data warehouse about performance of databases provides the warning diagnostics and the analysis of trends, allows to reveal possible problems prior to their emergence.

• Corporate assets of data management increase security, allowing to reveal and protect confidential data systematically.

• Step-by-step process management of updating with a possibility of rollback of changes provides the accelerated deployment of Oracle Database 12c.

• Expanded management for Oracle Fusion Middleware

• The new consolidated representation of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c environments with recommendations about management allows administrators to apply the best control techniques to different environments of binding software and to quickly reveal problems with performance.

• The Java VM Diagnostics as a Service function provides the managed diagnostics data access to specialists in different IT areas, allowing to eliminate quicker defects and to optimize performance.

New automatic formation of a complex of services for SOA gives to administrators of binding software an opportunity to easily carry out large-scale deployments of SOA.

• Private roles and preferable credentials for authentication are added to Oracle Enterprise Manager to offer additional opportunities of more detailed security to the organizations with increased requirements to access control.

• The new console of security provides centralized operation with security of the Oracle Enterprise Manager environments.

• Support of SNMP v3 protocol, new industry standard, including enciphering, provides the protected management of heterogeneous environments.

2013

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3

Flexibility and dynamism

The new version of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c of Release 3 solves problems of poor control of IT providers of private and public cloud services as advantages of "cloud" - flexibility and dynamism, usovershenstvuya managing infrastructure, binding technologies and applications, helping IT service providers to implement more flexibly the plans at further cost reduction and simplification of IT infrastructure, both in "cloud", and in the local area network.

Both private and public

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gives exclusive opportunities for deployment of business applications and management of them in a private cloud on PaaS-model. In new the version there are improved management tools business applications, the integrated hardware-software management of the Oracle Engineered Systems complexes, like Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c R3 completely supports Oracle Database 12c, including new opportunities of multiple lease (multi tenancy).

"With growth of number of cloud deployments suppliers of services even more often face problems of management — noted Kumar (Sushil Kumar), the vice president of Oracle for the Product Strategy and Business Development direction Dried. — Thanks to advanced functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c of Release 3 we give an opportunity to suppliers of cloud services to improve efficiency, flexibility and dynamism of the cloud environments. The new version of a product significantly increases skill of management of clouds for cloud providers".

Management of cloud environments and the optimized hardware and software systems

The simplified management of Oracle Exadata Database Machine with previously created plans for resource allocation and support of multirack (multi-rack) configurations helps administrators to pass from control of one machine Oracle Exadata to centralized operation with hardware racks with a set of machines.

• New opportunities for Oracle Exalytics support as management of a complex, and the virtual machine which can be deployed on Oracle Exalytics, and provide tools for increase in efficiency of administrators, including the mechanism of the managed search, the personalized panel of monitoring of the software and means of display of topology of routing and loading of virtual vCPU processors.

• Funds of planning of consolidation for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud allow clients to create and control accomplishment of plans for consolidation of workloads of Java applications on Oracle Exalogic.

• The mechanism of accounting of use of resources (chargeback) is improved: users can add own metrics of use of resources to standard metrics now.

• The PaaS-model (Platform-as-a-Service) can be implemented on physical and virtual platforms that provides the accelerated deployment and effective management of lifecycle of applications for developer Java.

• The Oracle Enterprise Manager mechanism on fast creation of copies of the existing databases can use possibilities of storage systems for instant cloning of databases (snapclone) with significant economy of resources now.

• Support of Oracle VM 3.2.3 allows users to import guest virtual machines (Guest VM), to use the iSCSI Multipath protocol and to manage Oracle VM "clouds" in environments with several network adapters (multi-NIC), helping to simplify transactions and to increase efficiency of groups of administration of cloud solutions.

• The new Change Activity Planner tool helps administrators to plan, to start long-term processes of automation in work and to control their accomplishment.

Management of binding software products and applications

• The advanced managing console allows to manage from one panel Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle GlassFish Server and Oracle Tuxedo application servers. Administrators can reduce time and labor costs at management of the powerful and difficult Oracle Fusion Middleware environments, using advantages of a single platform to performance management, processes and configurations.

• Administrators can set now "patches" (corrections or changes of a program code) for several domains Oracle WebLogic Server for one transaction. Besides, they can define whether there are no necessary properties at destination objects or whether unsupported configurations are used, and to provide recommendations about the solution of the revealed problems.

• Improvements for Oracle CRM improve diagnostics of databases and configuration compatibility with the Siebel environments that considerably simplifies management at large-scale deployments.

• Functions of testing and diagnostics of the Application Replay applications include comprehensive performance review of the user sessions now that provides effective tools for fast diagnostics of performance concerns and testing of working or test environments.

Improvements of Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 allows to increase efficiency of administration thanks to improvements of a system dashboard, management console by security, management tools by incidents (incident management) and auditing facilities and also thanks to expanded support of the administrator.

• The new feature of support of scripts of the command line interface (CLI) based on Jython (implementation of the Python language in the Java language) allows administrators to create scripts (microprograms or macroes) and to automate with their help difficult tasks in heterogeneous IT environments and also to expand integration of Oracle Enterprise Manager into management tools and control of other suppliers.

Expansion of an ecosystem

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Extensibility Exchange, joint development of Oracle and partners, offers the directory more than with 125 additions now for Enterprise Manager among which there are connected software modules (Plug-Ins) and modules of interface Management Connectors.
• Over 600 partners received specializations in the product Oracle Enterprise Manager direction within the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized program.

Announcement of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

On November 13, 2013 the Oracle corporation announced the new version of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. In it the ready-made solution of management of all lifecycle of DBaaS service for Oracle Multitenant, multiarendnost options in Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition is presented.

Description

In the new version of Enterprise Manager 12c a wide choice of submission of the database as service (DBaaS), including the complete database, cloning of copies, the scheme and connected (Pluggable) of DBaaS is maintained. Thereby there is an opportunity to offer users more wide range of possibilities of delivery of service, at the same time reducing time and preserving efforts.

The existing management tools and new opportunities of Oracle Exadata Database Machine will help to develop quickly the scalable DBaaS environments supporting more than services with the high levels of performance and availability. Besides, improvements in Oracle Real Application Testing provide fast and simple control of regular transactions of database managers directly in crucial working private cloud environments that increases service quality and efficiency of administrators and reduces operating costs.

Consolidation on multirent architecture of Oracle Database 12c provides planning, migration and testing of new and existing applications upon transition of clients to the DBaaS model. The Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c automation equipment including planning, setup, testing, self-service, accounting and billing, monitoring, management and optimization for an option of a multiarendnost Oracle Database 12c simplifies such consolidation.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c minimizes risks, accelerating deployment of the connected DBaaS-solutions.

Functionality

• the simple automated migration from the previous databases on the new version of Oracle Database 12c;
• billing reports — provide accounting and billing of use of services of the connected databases (reports on distribution of workloads on the connected databases for cost analysis are in addition offered);
• additional resources of administration for performance management and lifecycle of the multirent container database; the central directory of services for the approved configurations of the connected databases — helps clients to provide standardization, covering all range of applications and users at the enterprise;
• the mechanism of the guaranteed providing resources — provides deployment of the mixed workloads in the environment of general use for performance improvement, isolation of resources and their use;
• access on the basis of quotas and roles and management based on the politician for support of accomplishment of the regulating requirements; a full support of REST API for integration into automation systems of other suppliers or corporate portals.

As a part of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c there are means of self-service, including: the reservation of resources, monitoring, backup, recovery and decommissioning of services of the connected databases for a hosting or certification of applications on Oracle Database 12c allowing users to request and get access to databases on demand.

Fast start

The packet of DBaaS Rapid Start Kit - is intended for automation of fast creation of a full-function cloud environment of databases as a part of which pools of databases, zones, templates of services and independently serviced users.

Additional innovations

Among other new products in the new version there is Oracle Enterprise Manager:

• enhanced capabilities of Testing as a Service (testing as service);
• service with the minimum idle times;
• optimization of data;
• support of Snap Clone for the ZFS file system.

Information Lifecycle Management Advisor

Use of the out-of-place patching method allows to apply without idle times corrections to cluster infrastructure and databases with the option Oracle Real Application Clusters. In turn, the new Information Lifecycle Management Advisor component offers the detailed "thermal card" Heat Map displaying information on tabular spaces, segments and other important data which are actively used or updated in the database, for the purpose of optimization of use of resources and reducing costs for storage.

File systems and storage area networks

Supplementing already implemented support Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance and Netapp, in the new version support of the ZFS file system is implemented, uniform work in environments of storage is organized NAS and SAN.

Snap Clone provides cloning of the database of any size in minutes, unlike traditional transmission methods of data where hours or days are required.

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