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we are familiar with a project to implement oracle enterprise Manager 11g for a UK-based enterprise with an
installed estate of raC, weblogic, soa, and e-Business suite. eM 11g was specifically chosen because of its support for
soa, which was a key technology for the client. however, eM certification permanently lagged behind the soa releases,
and this led to significant support issues for the client when oracle support would not take service requests because the
four-digit version number of the weblogic server was one patch set ahead of the certified version. we expect the plug-in
nature of support for managed targets to address this issue.
Note
Interface
The visual interface for Grid Control had always been in the hands of the development teams providing the underlying
management functionality. This had two large consequences. First, the interface design was, to put it charitably,
old-fashioned. The original product was released in early 2004, which almost certainly means that it started development
life sometime between 2001 and 2003. It's worth remembering what web interfaces were like in the early part of this
century; the Grid Control product had usability issues, but it was by no means alone. Figure
4-2
shows the old-style
interface, essentially a white page full of links arranged broadly by feature area.
Figure 4-2.
Old-style interface
