One of the most interseting new feature in Enterprise Manager 13c is the Gold Agent Image. This new feature will simplify the agent management. The first thing to do is to create a Gold Agent image, from the setup menu , select Gold Agent Image: Then select Manage All Images: Select Create Enter the image name, a description and the…
Enterprise Manager 13c offers a new feature allowing displaying the management packs used by a feature. To enable the Management Pack Annotations, you select Enable Annotations from the Setup Menu –> Management Pack: From now on your menus are filled up with acronyms more or less comprehensive, from a performance page on a target database: From now on your…
In Enterprise Manager 12c, if you need to display the database storage, from the report menu you have the following possibilities: From now on, with Enterprise Manager 13c, this possibility does not exist anymore in the report menu, you have to use the BI publisher feature. If during the EM13c installation phase, you choose not to configure BI publisher, you…
As the Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c is configured for sending warnings and alerts if a target database is down, what’s happening if the Enterprise Manager Repository database crashes? With Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, a quite good solution is available: after an easy configuration, the management agent is able to run script to notify database administrators there is a problem with…
At a client’ site I decided to install the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c. I did not encountered any special problem :=) , then I installed an agent 13c on the development plattform and added targets as usual, but at this timeI discovered that half of my database targets in 11.2.0.3 version were in the following state : 2016-02-05 15:31:46,863 [2527:A154C6AD]…
Oracle EM Cloud Control 12c (CC12c) – Repeat alert notification In your EM installation, CC12c will notify your different administrators when specific incidents, events, or problems occurs. But from standard configuration, you will receive only one warning or critical notification/alert … until the Clear or an Acknowledge of the alert. Some times and for different reasons (human error, email was…
When you use Enterprise Manager Cloud control 12c, the monitor username commonly used is dbsnmp. Depending on the Oracle profile used for this user, the dbsnmp password can expire, and as a consequence multiple targets will be seen in a pending status by Enterprise Manager Cloud control 12c. An interesting way to solve this problem is to create a metric…
By Franck Pachot . Enterprise Manager (Cloud Control for example) gathers a lot of metrics. You can display them from the GUI, but you can also query the SYSMAN views directly. Today, I wanted to get the history of free space in an ASM disk group for the previous week. Here is how I got it. Enterprise Manager metrics are…
In this blog post, I will describe how to upgrade from Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.3 to OEM 12.1.0.4.0. I have already described the main new features of Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 version in an earlier post (Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – the new features). The first pre-requisite is to apply the patch 11061801 on the repository database in…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post about nproc limit, I wrote that I had to investigate the nproc limit with the number of threads because my Oracle 12c EM agent was having thousands of threads. This post is a short feedback about this issue and the way I have found the root cause. It concerns the enterprise manager…
Together with Oracle Database 12c, Oracle has introduced a new administration console named Oracle Enterprise Manager Express (Oracle OEM Express). This “light” version of Enterprise Manager Database Console – which is not supported in Oracle 12c anymore – is a management product built into Oracle Database 12c. There is no installation or management required, the database creation with dbca enables OEM…
Cloud Control 12c (and the former Grid Control 11g) offers the possibility to create administrators and manage their privileges through the “emcli” command line utility. The main advantage of this method (based on scripts) is to be able to reproduce the creation of the users as soon as a new Cloud Control infrastructure must be built up (for instance in…
