Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Tools of systems management Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center are offered free of charge to all clients of Oracle having contracts for support of the Premium level. Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides management tools all IT infrastructure of Oracle — servers, storage systems, network equipment and also operating systems and hypervisors. At the same time need for third-party software of systems management of a minimialn.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c

At the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco in October, 2011 the Oracle company announced the Enterprise Manager 12c system which combines management of a full technology range of Oracle with management of corporate cloud environments. It is the first product in a portfolio of Oracle with version number of 12c where the index "c" designates "cloud".

The unified management of cloud resources is implemented via the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control single console which allows to create business services from any combination of cloud models: IaaS, PaaS, including DBaaS (Database as a Service) and MWaaS (Middleware as a Service), and SaaS. Planning tools of resources allow architects and administrators of a cloud to model cloud environments with optimization of use of resources. Automatic installation of pools and system resources of joint use gives the chance to administrators to integrate IT resources and to set rules and politicians who regulate their use. The built-in functions of self-service provide transparent access to cloud resources for business users and application developers. Functions of accounting and billing allow the staff of finance divisions, heads of IT services and service providers to keep account of use of services and to make out bills.

The new version of Oracle Enterprise Manager also gives the integrated abilities to manage a complete technology stack (application-to-disk) for the Fusion Applications applications and hardware and software systems of Oracle.

Since spring of 2012 the product Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c includes possibilities for creation, management and service of the cloud infrastructures using the IaaS model (infrastructure as service). In the whole Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c is an optimal solution for management of all systems of Oracle unrolled in traditional, virtual and cloud environments. Key features of the solution help users: accelerate deployment of "cloud" for the solution of crucial tasks; receive complete management of Oracle Solaris 11; simplify management of the optimized hardware and software systems Oracle Engineered Systems; get pro-active support of cloud computing.

So, Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c provides a possibility of comprehensive management of lifecycle of "cloud" at the level of the hardware of Oracle, the Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris operating systems, including centralized operation with all technologies of virtualization, self-service and management of lifecycle of "cloud", runtime allocation of resources. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c is the industry-first solution for management of the virtualized pools of the x86 and SPARC servers thanks to deep integration into Oracle VM Manager 3 or the single interface respectively.

Also in a system support of a management system for packets of Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS), the automatic Automated Installer (AI) installer and environments of loading Alternate Boot Environment is implemented. Abilities to manage by an input-output subsystem in the Oracle Solaris environments using new management tools of iSCSI, interfaces of fiber optic channels and technologies of network work and data storage are optimized. These opportunities help users to disclose all power of Oracle Solaris 11 and to accelerate deployment of crucial corporate applications or applications of independent suppliers of software products.

At the same time, in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c the ability to manage is implemented by Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 computer systems and also management tools for Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud are improved and expanded that allows to unroll "cloud" in a few minutes almost from scratch.

Besides, thanks to improvements in My Oracle Support administrators of the cloud systems will receive the Automatic Service Request (ASR) function, pro-active recommendations about installation of patches and check of operability of a system in combination with the complex scheduler of the automated installation of patches in software Oracle Enterprise Manager and useful tips on use of applied technology in "clouds" of Oracle for all lifecycle.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 11g

Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center from the uniform web console it is possible to administer servers, operating systems, network equipment, virtual environments and even in advance integrated solutions of Oracle, such as Exadata and Exalogic.

the component represents the modifed version of a packet of XVM Ops Center of Sun company. Let's remind, Enterprise Manager is tools for software management of Oracle: databases, binding software and applications.

Using Ops Center it is possible to administer both servers on platforms SPARC and x86, operating systems Oracle Solaris Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SuSE and also virtual environments on the basis of Oracle Virtual Machines and Solaris Containers technologies.

Due to consolidation of management a system reduces time of localization of failures. Ops Center is capable to notify automatically on failures of components — fans, memory and power supplies.

Tools also help with large-scale deployments. For example, if the organization bought the big park of servers, a system will automatically recognize them in network and then according to the preset work flow updates corporate software, installs OS and patches and creates virtual machines.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center offers the concept of convergent control of hardware – the new approach to the investment management in the equipment of Oracle directed to simplification and increase in efficiency of tasks of management for all infrastructure facilities. This approach gives to users the following advantages:

• The integrated infrastructure management — the Industry-first solution for management of physical and virtual environments, the Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux operating systems, the Oracle Sun SPARC servers and x86, including the built-in microprogram providing (firmware), clusters, storage systems of Sun and network infrastructure of Oracle. These powerful solutions for systems management of Sun from Oracle can help to reduce operating expenses and as much as possible to increase return from investments into hardware of Oracle.
• The integrated management from applications to disk arrays helps clients to reveal and solve quickly problems on the scale of all stack of the program and hardware systems thanks to comprehensive information representation and control of process of management of hardware that allows to implement the integrated protection and fault recovery – from applications to disk arrays.
• The integrated management of lifecycle offers the most full range of opportunities for automation of installation, preparation for work and installation of patches of the software for physical and virtual servers of Oracle using new comprehensive plans of no-touch deployment. To help IT specialists more surely and to easily solve problems at the level of business objectives, this version includes new dashboards (dashboards) for a data processing center, abilities to manage by power efficiency and also the exhausting set of means of preparation of the control reporting.
• The integrated controls of hardware and technical support — Integration with service My Oracle Support for implementation of a unique combination of opportunities of anticipatory notifications and error correction and also the knowledge sharing with colleagues allowing to check the contracts/right to automatically open and monitor service requests – all this is performed via Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center.

Business Transaction Management

On February 3, 2011 Oracle announced the new management tools business transactions of Business Transaction Management which are a part of the solution Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g. These means give to IT services ampler opportunities for monitoring of transactions for a set of applications at the different computing levels.

New opportunities allow IT services to monitor exact volumes of business transactions through IT systems quickly to detect and exclude problems, without allowing their negative impact on efficiency of business users.

"Business transactions become more and more automated and therefore even more difficult in management — Richard Sarwal, the senior vice president of Oracle for product development noted. — Any separate transaction can affect a set of technologies for all enterprise, and to administrators happens not easy to contain a problem in case of deceleration or system failure. New means of Business Transaction Management in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g allow IT services to rationalize considerably management of corporate infrastructures".

Administrators of the large-scale, distributed applied environments supported by a middleware based on Java can simplify accomplishment of tasks, from problem solving with a performance of the executed transactions before preparation of comprehensive reports for carrying out the analysis using technical and business metrics.

The new product capabilities integrated with technology of the AmberPoint company purchased by Oracle allow to expand considerably functionality of means of Oracle Enterprise Manager for management of SOA and Java Platform Enterprise Edition of applications. Improvements include enhanced analytical capabilities for processing of considerable amounts of data about transactions, the improved user interface, new instruments of monitoring and integration into Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

Besides, this version includes two new "observers" — complete idea of the transactions automated the agent, allowing to gain executed on the latest versions of Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Performance improvement and simplification of administration of applications

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g allows IT services to operate applications taking into account business development perspectives as provides deeper visibility of transactions. As a result, work of IT service corresponds to business priorities better; besides, the quality of work of users and customer interaction will substantially be improved.

New opportunities are included in structure of packets of Middleware Management Packs of the solution Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, including Oracle WebLogic Server Management Pack Enterprise Edition, SOA Management Pack Enterprise Edition and Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware. New versions of these packets offer:

• The improved user interface — completely configured administrative console for monitoring of transactions in large-scale applied environments allowing administrators to simplify the analysis of transactions and to gain knowledge for accomplishment of required actions.
• New instruments of monitoring of business transactions — including use and performance of each specific transaction and also efficiency evaluation of services and transactions in comparison with absolute and/or relative requirements of agreements on the service levels that allows to reduce the number of wrong messages and quicker to solve problems.
• Representations at the level of containers — the advanced scheme of resource allocation for applications showing location of the server for the refused and/or slow services and components allows administrators to cope with possible problems quickly.
• Integration into Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher — improves preparation of reports on business transactions, allowing administrators to load automatically considerable amounts of data for the analysis and to quickly transfer information on performance of transactions to key concerned parties.
• The centralized configuring based on the politician — helps to reduce total cost of ownership and to considerably simplify providing resources to applications, allowing administrators to define policy for all lifecycle of the application for the purpose of more approved monitoring of transactions in any applied environment.
• Automation of modeling of the replicated services and management of them — supports deployment of services at the corporate level and provides reduction of time and the efforts necessary for setup and administration of transactions. At high requirements to readiness and scalability (for example, for support of crucial business applications), management tools business transactions of the solution Oracle Enterprise Manager allow to provide monitoring of performance in the distributed, balancing loading and cluster server environment for the consolidated understanding of performance of transactions.