I just built out my own EM13c environment so I can answer many questions that I won’t be able to ignore just because I no longer work at Oracle. Tips Installation of EM13c is different on Windows than Linux or Unix, (no duh!) but it’s good to know a few tips for those that required to use Windows as their hosting or monitoring OS. Ensure you use a user with administrative privileges on the hosts and that they have appropriate privileges to access the target hosts. Always start any of the installations or deployments with administrator access, (this can be…
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To assist users as they plan out their upgrades and new Enterprise Manager environments, I wanted to go over a few subtle, but important changes from EM12c, 12.1.0.5 to the newest release, the much anticipated EM13c, 13.1.0.0. EM Processes One of the things you’ll notice when starting an EM12c from the command line is WHAT is started. $ ./emctl start oms Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 5 Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Starting Oracle Management Server... Starting WebTier... WebTier Successfully Started Oracle Management Server Successfully Started Oracle Management Server is Up The Oracle Management…
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The only thing that is constant is change. There were some major changes to Enterprise Manager with 13c and many of them may seem small to someone who knows the product well, but then again, it may trip you up as you’re accustomed to features working as you knew them in EM12c. One of these features is the manual edition of targets through the guided process. Adding a Target The Setup menu is still on the right, it just has some company now in the new EM13c interface: Click on Setup, Add Target, Add Targets Manually. This is where the…
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I’m thrilled to see the outpouring of support for EM13c already out with it just being announced on Friday! As technologists all over the world jump in and start installing the newest and greatest version of Enterprise Manager, there is a second group already working on the task of upgrading their existing EM12c environments, (seen a few already, including one from Gokhan!) Along with other requirements, like setting optimizer_adaptive_features set to false, there is pre-requisite that I’d like to recommend that everyone perform on any EM12c environment before endeavoring on an upgrade- do a health check with EM Diagnostics. Enterprise…