PacktLib: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12: Managing Data Center Chaos

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Chaos at Data Centers

Team effort

Common solutions used in data centers

Summary

Enter Oracle Cloud Control

The Grid – where the cloud came from

Overview of version 12

Striking new features in 12

Bonus sections

Ease the Chaos with Performance Management

Laying the foundation

Top activity

Testing infrastructure changes

SQL Monitoring

Doctor in the database

Real-Time ADDM

Compare Period ADDM

Active Session History (ASH) analytics

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Configuration Management and Security Compliance

Lifecycle management

Auto discovery

Inventory

Detailed configuration

Search capability

History and compares

Topology

Custom configurations

Client configurations

Compliance

Compliance library

Configuration and compliance reporting

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Automated Provisioning

Lifecycle management

First steps: Software Library

Provisioning library

Provisioning profiles

Deployment procedures

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching

Recommended patches

Patch plan

Out-of-place patching

Pre-patching analysis

Deployment

Plan template

Patching roles

Refreshes

Other patching procedures

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Change Management

Change management

Schema comparison

Schema Change Plan

Schema synchronization

Data comparison

Continuous comparison

Use cases

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Test Data Management

Test Data Management

Data subsetting

Generate subset

Benefits and capabilities

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Data Masking

Finding sensitive data

Creating data masking definitions

Format library

Benefits and capabilities

Summary

Ease the Chaos with Exadata Management

Meeting the challenges

Discovering Exadata

Monitoring and managing Exadata

Total capabilities

Summary

Real-life Examples and Case Studies, and It's a Wrap: The Future is the Cloud

Case study – telecom

Case study – pharmaceutical

Case study – computer manufacturer

Case study – online store

Case study – financial institution

Case study – university

Future of cloud computing

Summary

Index