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Figure 19-3.
EM12c consolidation planner screenshot
Additionally, once migrated, the components of a cloud service can be monitored as a “system” from EM, even to
the point where the performance of a web service in South America could be measured from North America, by the
use of beacons. Beacons are local agents that sit in the geographical region of the service being tested and are a very
useful tool for detecting bottlenecks.
For a more in-depth look at the cloud consolidation process from the perspective of Enterprise Manager,
I recommend reading “Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c,” which can be found at
This point and click cloud migration functionality may be a taste of what is to come, but before businesses can
really control their IT they have to have control over the administrative privilege. Just as privileged access control
on the database was a prerequisite to consolidation, being able to control high privileges in EM is a prerequisite to
moving to the cloud.
Privileged Access Control in the Cloud with EM12c and
PowerBroker
We have already looked at the
> Security > Administrators >
view that “Super Administrators” gain in EM12c, and we
have seen how it can benefit from improvement in terms of segregating those administrators (as they can demote
each other and lock each other out). Well help is at hand as Oracle has quite wisely built in some added expertise from
a specialist company that deals in privileged access control—namely, BeyondTrust (previously Symark).
