Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Application performance management
: EM12c delivers end-to-end monitoring of your
applications, including real-user monitoring via Real User Experience Insight (RUEI)
as well as synthetic-transaction monitoring via Service Level Management beacons.
Other functionality introduced here includes the ability to monitor and trace business
transactions, topology discovery, and Java and database monitoring and diagnostics.
Application quality management (AQM)
: Three areas of testing are provided—application
testing via the Application Testing Suite product, infrastructure testing via Real Application
Testing and Application Replay, and test data management functionality that includes test
system creation, data masking, and data subsetting technologies.
Hardware and virtualization management
: Complete lifecycle management is offered for
both physical and virtual environments, including provisioning, patching, configuration
management, administration, and monitoring. This includes managing systems running
on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Oracle Virtualization Server (Oracle VM Server) operating
systems, as well as providing insight into the server, network, and storage layers for systems
built on top of Oracle Sun hardware.
Heterogeneous (non-Oracle) management
: Supplying a range of extensions known as
connectors and plug-ins (among others), EM12c provides capabilities to manage
non-Oracle technology in addition to Oracle environments. These extensions could be
built by Oracle, partners, or even customers themselves. They are based on the same
management framework as the rest of the EM12c product, and so can be downloaded,
imported, and deployed by the Self Update mechanism.
Coverage of all these focus areas adds up to a robust product for managing the complete data center. The rest
of this topic drills into the details of many of these areas. The remainder of this chapter introduces you to the basic
architecture that you need to understand before delving further into the wonders of EM12c.
Architecture Overview
From an architectural perspective, EM12c is composed of five main parts:
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Cloud Control console
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Oracle Management Agent
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Oracle Management Service
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Oracle Management Repository
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Plug-ins
Let's look at each of these in more detail.
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a discussion of the licensing for eM12c is beyond the scope of this topic. (an entire licensing document is available
in the enterprise Manager documentation at
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/license.121/e24474/toc.htm
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however, it's worth noting that, in general, most of the basic functionality described here carries a restricted-use license and
therefore is free. this restricted-use license refers specifically to enterprise Manager, however, and many add-on options do
come with license costs. refer to the licensing documentation for full details.
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