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Anatomy of an Enterprise Manager metric extension

Recently, I was working on deploying Metric Extensions automatically in Enterprise Manager, but the more I looked into it, the more it turned into a different question: what does a Metric Extension look like ? In a previous blog, I presented the SYSMAN tables containing the metric extensions definitions. I also showed how to retrieve the targets where a metric… 

Listing and querying Oracle Enterprise Manager metric extensions

I recently wanted to work on Metric Extensions automation, and realized the task was a bit more complicated than I thought. My original idea was to look into the emcli verb list, but I was unlucky. In fact, emcli does not allow you to retrieve information about Metric Extensions. I had to dig further, looking into the Enterprise Manager SYSMAN… 

Oracle GenAI – Ask EM – Configure Oracle AI Database Assitant

Now that I have got an Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai deployed in the cloud and an agent installed and configured on a DB System, I’m ready to configure OEM AI assistant. In this blog, I would like to guide you through the steps of configuration and show all problems I faced and how I have troubleshooted and resolved them. Ask… 

OGG-08502 Path not found error from OGG Receiver Service

Update: this bug seems to be corrected with the latest GoldenGate patch (23.26.2.0.1). If you face this error, try to patch your GoldenGate deployments. Recently, after a successful migration to GoldenGate 26ai, a customer complained that he was seeing a lot of the following error in the ggserr.log file of a GoldenGate deployment (I replaced the names for the purpose… 

Install and configure OEM plug-in for GoldenGate

If you are licensed for the GoldenGate Management Pack, using the Enterprise Manager plug-in for GoldenGate improves monitoring and management of your deployments. And after migrating to the Microservices Architecture, you should definitely update your plug-in and rediscover all targets. Let’s see how to do all that here. In this blog, I will use the latest version of the Enterprise… 

EM-90000 SSL error with GoldenGate targets in OEM

In this blog, I will explain what needs to be done when registering GoldenGate targets behind NGINX reverse proxy in the Enterprise Manager. More specifically, we will see how to avoid the EM-90000 error related to an SSLHandshakeException. If you are upgrading to GoldenGate 26ai and migrating from Classic to Microservices Architecture, you must re-discover GoldenGate targets in the Enterprise… 

ExaCC OCI integration with OEM 13.5 Cloud Control installed On-premises.

Introduction I wrote this article to show how you can integrate Legacy OEM with your Cloud environment in this case Oracle ExaCC.To have overall view on your Exadata X9M Cloud Infrastructure, statistics related to CPU/Memory/ASM Storage usage. Your on premise monitoring OEM can read data from Oracle cloud using OCI libraries and present them in combination with your standard DB/VMs… 

OEM Cloud Control Release update to 13.5.0.23

Introduction This is upgrade procedure to release update from 07 Aug 2024. 13.5.0.23 Its also one of prerequisites for integrating OEM with OCI Exadata Cloud@Customer solution available on my other post under this link: https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/exacc-oci-integration-with-oem-13-5-cloud-control-installed-on-premises Patching procedure and process is basically regular with usage of standard OMSPatcher. We updating from version 13.5.0.16 to 13.5.0.23 This update release bring some improvements… 

Foglight

As many Oracle Database Administrators, I am a regular user of Oracle Enterprise Manager in order to monitor or administer my client’s databases. I am lucky because most of them have the diagnostic pack and the tuning pack :=). But we always have to be curious and discover new products. As described by my colleague Nicolas Penot, I installed Foglight:… 

OEM Cloud Control 13c – Agent Gold Image

Introduction I am currently setting up a new “Base Image” virtual machine (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6) which will be used to create 6 brand new Oracle database servers requested by a customer. Besides installing and configuring the OS, I also have to install 3 Oracle Homes and one Cloud Control Agent 13c. An OMS13c server already exists including an… 

Easy transport of SQL Tuning Sets with OEM

By Franck Pachot . When you want to transport a SQL Tuning Set between production and test for example, you have to pack it into a table, then export the table, import it into the target database, and unpack the STS. This is a case where Enterprise Manager can help to do it quickly. First I create a SQL Tuning…