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
• 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