Mark McGill
Ashish Agarwal
Room fully packed, looks like many people are interested in this new release.
Again I will do my post in the form of a summary of features. Simply need some more time to revise these posts, so stay tuned. For now this is what I wanted to share with you guys.
Yes these are my notes in Stagato Style, sorry guys.
Unique management requirements
- Personalization
- Extensibility
- Performance stability and scalability
- Security
- Manageability
- Fault diagnostics
Personalization
- Tailor EM experience based on job role
By this not everybody will get the same homepage, but can choose the page layout the like and suit best to their jobs - Custom Homepages
- Customize Target Homepages
- Favorites
- History
Very easy for context switching, so being able to get back to where you were 2 clicks ago.
OK, because of technical issues no DEMO was given.
Extensibility
- New architecture for extensibility
- EM platform – cannot be updated between releases
- EM plugins – can be updated between releases
- All out of the box target types modeled as plug-ins
- Enables target support and other vertical capabilities
- Target plugins
- Management for new versions of targets like: databases, fusion middleware, Siebel, Exedata etc
- Monitoring of 4rd party targets through metadata based plugins
- Solution plugin
- Provide enhancements in vertical functionality
- Chargeback end trending
- Self service cloud management
Plugin deployment
- Single console to manage lifecycle
- Pre-requisite checks and logging
- Seamless deployment of plugins across middle tier and agent tier
Enhanced custom plug-ins
- Target to target associations
- Automatic discovery
- Custom target credentials
- Configuration Management
- Compliance standards
Self-Update
Automatically update of:
- Agent Core images
- Plug-ins
- Compliance standards and rules
- Diagnostics checks
- VM templates
- Management Connectors
- Administrators notified that update is available
- Update is downloaded from Oracle store to customer site
- Update is applied by administrator
Performance, stability and scalability
- Fault tolerant Agent
- Robust
- Less port specific issues
- Suspension of misbehaving taks
- Self-tuning
- Memory allocated based on environment
- Lightweight
- Scales to thousands of targets per agent
- Unified
- Integration of acquired technology
- New “ Lifecycle Status” target property
- Being able to set Production, Staging, Test, Development
- Missions critical and production servers treated with higher priority than data from development and test systems
- Helps ensure tat adding more targets does not impact performance
- Improved Loader
- Faster uploads
- Synchronous uploads from Agent
- No filesystem staging area, simply upload directly to the Management Service
- Faster uploads
- Isolation of Loader problems
- Resources partitioned by type of data and lifecycle status
- Flow control
- Agents backed off by Lifecycle status
- Stops loader becoming saturated
Security
- Integrate with enterprise security
- Improve authentication to EM
- Integration with (OAM SSO)
- Direct LDAP authentication support (AD and OID)
- Strong host and database target authentication
- Improved credential management
- Fine grained authorization
- Out-of-the-box roles
Manageability
- Deployed across thousands of distributed systems
- Agent software download with self-update
- Deploy to multiple servers and platforms in a single step
- SSH ensures confidentiality and integrity of agent deployment
- Remote prerequisite checks
- Automatically registers agent with OMS
- All control operations from UI and EMCLI
- Start
- Restart
- Shutdown
- Secure
- Update Agent Properties
- Support for batch control operations and property changes
- Agent monitoring
- Performance, resource usage
- Configuration information
- Deployed metric extension and plug-in summary
- System/Service modeling of EM Application
- Database components
- Weblogic comp
- Hosts
- EM services
- Auto discovery
- New target types
- OMS/OMS console/OMS platform
- Rich relationships
- Composite application contains
- Provided by
- Topology viewer and EM services dashboard
- Central location to assess EM health
- Dependency analysis for EM system
- Shows relationships between system components
- Customizable views and component grouping
Diagnostics framework
- Reduce time to resolution of EM problems
- Simplifying customer interaction with Oracle Support
- Problem prevention
Incident Manager
- Manage complete lifecycle of all incidents and problems
- Assigns ownership, add comments, prioritize, escalate and track incidents
- Guided resolution
- Integration with Support Workbench