Whats New & Enhanced?

Deepak

Sharma
AIOUG North India Chapter {Co-Founder}
Sr. Application Administrator I at Oceaneering.
Over 6 years of experience as a DBA in implementing and
maintaining different Oracle Applications
Oracle Certified Professional
Worked on technologies like Oracle, SQLServer, OEM, OCM.
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Introduction to Enterprise Manager 13c

Architecture of Enterprise Manager
Components involved
New & Enhanced Features in 13c
Q&A

Provides a centralized monitoring and management platform for IT

infrastructure.
One tool to monitor and manage all Oracle databases.
Can manage and monitor various targets (host, ASM, RAC, Listener, Weblogic,
Tomcat, Apache and many more).
Its possible to add more target types using plug-ins.
Easy to maintain: Familiar components (Oracle products), My Oracle Support.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c therefore introduces always on

monitoring
Planned downtime windows - another exciting feature being introduced
is notification blackouts
Stack management - unification of hardware and software
management
Infrastructure management - target types: servers, storage, network,
VMs in Enterprise Manager.
Integration of Exacheck - generate automated notifications and reports
for any violation in their Exadata configurations.

Architecture
Agents
Management Server (OMS)
Repository (OMR)
Plug-ins
Oracle JVMD Engine
Oracle BI Publisher
OEM Console
EMCTL
EMCLI

Converts an un-managed host to a managed host in OEM.

Working in conjunction with the plug-ins to monitor targets
running on a host.
Central Agent {Default Agent to monitor OMS host}
Standalone management agent.

Web-based Application.
Communicates with Management agent and plug-ins.
Discover, Monitor and Manage targets.
Store collected information in repository
Renders user interface of OEM
Deployed in Middleware_Home

Weblogic server
OMS
Plug-ins
JDK
Oracle WT Directory
Oracle Common
Configuration files

Storage location
Information collected by agent gets stored
OMS upload data received from Agents
OMR organize data so that it can be retrieved by OMS and displays in
console
At the time of installation, OEM installation wizard configure OMS in
your existing certified database

Pluggable entities
Offer special management capabilities
Plug-ins works in conjunction with the OMS, the management agent
to monitor every target
Deployed to both OMS and Agent as well
Earlier release, plug-in enabled to monitor only 3rd Party targets, now
all types of targets
Independent release cycles

Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics

Enables to diagnose performance issues in java application.
Eliminate need to reproduce problems
Reduce time required to resolve these problems, improves application

availability & performance

From 13c, one JVMD Engine is installed by default with

Fusion Middleware Plug-in
JVMD agents have to be manually deployed on JVMs

Primary reporting tool.

Provide pixel-perfect reports & dashboard
Huge variety of report & dashboard layouts
From 13c, BI Publisher is installed and configured by default
1 BI publisher with 1 OMS

Size

Agent
Count

Target
Count

OMS
Machine
Count*

Small

< 100

< 1000

Medium

>= 100
< 1000

>= 1000
< 10,000

Large

>= 1000

>= 10,000

Cores per
OMS

Memory
per OMS
(GB)

Database
Machine
Count

Cores per
Database
Machine

Memory
per DB
(GB)

10

12

2 (Oracle
RAC)

10

12

24

2 (Oracle
RAC)

12

18

EM CLI enables users to access Enterprise Manager functionality through

a command-line interface or scripts.
EM CLI is fully integrated with Enterprise Manager's security and user
administration functions.
Examples of EM CLI tasks you can accomplish are as follows:

Create a new Enterprise Manager administrator account.

Monitor and manage targets, jobs, groups, and blackouts.

EMCTL is a command line utility installed with EM to administer or

control the core components of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control,
particularly Oracle Management Service (OMS) and Oracle Management
Agent (Management Agent).

Framework & Infrastructure

Enterprise Monitoring & Incident Management
Database Management
Middleware Management
Cloud Management
Life Cycle Management
Configuration Management
Big Data Appliance Management
Oracle Java Message Services
OBIEE
Infrastructure Management

Alta Skin Re-touch

System Broadcast
Multiple Proxy Support
Corrective Action Enhancement
Intelligent Incident Compression
Job System Enhancements
Improved Performance Page Monitoring & Diagnostics
EM13.1 Installer Enhancements

UI has been refreshed with new color scheme, more cleaner icons and
large font size
More tablet friendly experience
Faster page load time
Enhanced visualization & graphics

System Broadcast
Super Administrator can send pop-up messages from EM to other
administrators users.
Messages can also be sent using EMCLI send_system_broadcast
verb

Verb used: send_system_broadcast

$ ./emcli login -username=sysman
Enter password : Login successful
$ ./emcli send_system_broadcast -toOption="ALL -messageType="WARN"
-message="System Maintenance, 6pm" Successfully requested to send System
Broadcast to users.

Multiple proxy servers can be used by OMS for its communication to

the Management Agent.
Addition of new proxies will not require OMS bounces
proxies are managed as complete targets so that users can easily
identify a proxy if it is down

Corrective Action {E}

Task to automatically fix events or metric alerts

All event types are supported in 13c
Can run automatically or can be invoked manually by administrator
Development Life cycle support {Develop, Test & Publish}

Corrective Action {E}

Corrective Action {E}

Events related to same issue can be combined together.

Criteria for grouping includes:

By target
By event category
By metric

Time window can also be used to group events

Event grouping reduces over all volume of Incidents created.

Page Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics

Reports SQL statements which are increasing response time for poorly
performing UI console
Better visibility of SQL executions triggered within the page
Can see pages performing poorly in last 24 hrs.

EM 13.1 Installer Enhancements

Integration of BI Publisher
During upgrade from 12c, BI Publisher will also be upgraded
JVMD is installed and configured by default with OFMW plug-in

Notification Blackouts
Always-On-Monitoring
Incident Dashboard
Metric Enhancement
Export & Import of Incident rule sets.
Selenium Based Tests
End User Service
Enhancement to Corrective Actions

Even under blackout targets will be monitored but notification will not be
send.
Alerts can be still viewed in the Enterprise Manager
Once the blackout ends, event will be created and notification will be send.
Two types of notification blackout:

Maintenance Notification Blackout

Notification-only Notification Blackout

Always-On-Monitoring
Provides continuous monitoring of target down or other critical alert
even while EM is under maintenance.
Email notifications can be configured to be sent when target
down and other critical alerts are detected.

Incident manager displays incident view in the new incident dashboard

Highlight Areas:

Incidents of FATAL Severity

Escalated Incidents
Unassigned Incidents

Incident Summary Chart

Auto refresh of Dashboard
Dashboard can be customized by adding charts.
Overall also helps in Workload Distribution.

Ability to change metric comparison operator.

User defined business hours for Adaptive thresholds.
13c supports compute expressions in Metric Extensions.
Ability to define a Metric Extension for Single Instance & RAC
instance alone.

Incidents Rule Sets can now be exported from an EM site and Imported into
another.
Stored in the form of XML file.
Exported Rule set include:

User subscribed to the rules

Email address of recipients
Targets on which rule set operates
Notification methods

Selenium IDE recorder

Recorded scripts are created with Selenium IDE Recorder
TestNG framework can also be used to create scripts
Scripts are stored in Software Library

Displays end user performance & behavior info captured by RUEI.

By discovering a RUEI system in Enterprise Manager, all applications, service
which are managed & monitored by RUEI become individual End User
Service target in EM13c.

Corrective Actions {E}

EM13c now supports corrective actions for all event types.

Support for Compliance Rules.
Automated invocation using Event Rules.
Ability to attach latest corrective action automatically

OEM13c Database machine target upgrade.

Inter-continental Zero Data Loss
Database Consolidation Workbench
Database Service target type
Enhanced Optimizer Statistics Management support.

In EM13c we can continue to use existing Exadata database machine

target to be monitored as 12c target type.
13c monitoring features can be adopted anytime by just Click Button
and convert it to 13c target type.
EM13c shows photo realistic view of Database machine hardware on
DBM homepage.

EM 13c introduces Inter-continental Zero Data Loss

Concept of Far-Sync Standby database

Far-Sync database has no datafiles, its only job is to receive Redo and forward it to one
or more destination.

EM13c supports creation of Far-Sync standby database as target.

EM13c provides end-to-end solution for managing database

consolidation
DCW has three phases- Planning, Migration & Validation
Planning use historical workload metric for both database and host to produce
optimal consolidation plan
Migration automates entire database consolidation implementation process.
Different mode of consolidation is supported in DCW
Validation DCW uses SQL performance analyzer to validate SQL Workload
Performance on consolidated platform.

Manage & monitor Oracle Database Service as EM target.

Can be added manually or using Auto-discovery option.
Home Page Information:Database association
Service resource Utilization
Metric History

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E63000_01/
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E63000_01/EMBSC/toc.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E63000_01/EMADM/toc.htm