Tales from the Datacenter v2.0
Transforming Business with Oracle technologies
Once of the many overlooked abilities of OEM is the ability to view and graph historical data from the targets. With OEM, as a general rule, if it has a metric, you can not only build alerts, but you can Continue reading How to graph historical data in OEM13c
One of the cool things that Oracle Linux support gets you, is access to Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 to manage your Linux systems. You can use EM for lots of things, like patching systems, monitoring systems, provisioning systems and more. Continue reading Enterprise Manager and Linux–Comparing Targets
I was talking with a customer today, and discussing the problems of tracking security compliance for all of their systems, the OS, Middleware and database tiers. I mentioned that Enterprise manager could do this, and was meant with surprise because Continue reading Security Compliance for the Enterprise
I recently had the chance to talk to a few Hardware managers at a client site, and mentioned in passing that one of the neat tricks you can do with Enterprise Manager 13c, was monitor the physical hardware. A week Continue reading Monitoring ILOMs with Enterprise Manager
Deploying Enterprise Manager agents on Solaris is not a difficult task, and is similar to a Linux deployment with a few minor changes. First, like any agent you need to download the agent, and the apply the agent. When done, Continue reading Deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c agents on Solaris 11.X
In Part 3, we created the database. Now we are down to the final step, and install OEM. Cd to the directory where the OEM installation files have been extracted to, and start the runInstaller script As Continue reading Manually installing an OEM 12c sandbox environment – Part 4 OEM Installation
In Part 2, we installed the Database Software. Next we need to create the database, and make a few tuning tweaks. Next, lets run dbca, to create the database instance We are going to use the advanced mode And Continue reading Manually installing an OEM 12c sandbox environment – Part 3 Database Creation
In Part 1, we prepared the server for the installation. Next we need to install the database. First, we will pickup where we left off, and cd to the directory where the database installation files have been extracted Continue reading Manually installing an OEM 12c sandbox environment – Part 2 Database Software Installation
Often I am asked what are the steps to install a basic OEM 12c system. It is a simple task for a non highly available system, like what you would use for a small lab, or sandbox environment. The Continue reading Manually installing an OEM 12c sandbox environment – Part 1 System Preparation
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