by Job | Jul 19, 2020 | grid control, Oracle Enterprise Manager
In this cloud-era it’s almost weird to explore stuff on-premises, but I did…. In this case a slightly Higher Availibility configuration of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) that doesn’t cost anything, is not disruptive to the existing configuration and gives a tiny bit more confidence during patching of OEM : Always On Monitoring (AOM). Maybe a bit underrated functionality – within Oracle .
When Oracle Management Server (OMS) is down for patching, AOM is capable of mailing you when a critical target is down. It’s a limited functionality, but can be quite useful in some cases. Some details has changed since the start in 2016, when DBIservices wrote about it. At the end of the blogpost my findings. (more…)
by Job | Feb 6, 2018 | Oracle Enterprise Manager
Situation at customer’s site: OMS 13.2 on Oracle Linux, targets are Windows machines, and a bit ancient: Windows 2008 R2. How to deploy agents on those targets? Several methods are possible in theory. In this blog I’ll describe my efforts to determine what is really possible and what is efficient. (more…)
by Job | Jan 28, 2018 | Oracle Enterprise Manager, Uncategorized
Despite the potential of Oracle Management Cloud, I’m a fan of Oracle Enterprise Manager, with its small imperfections. So when noticing a 12c Oracle Enterprise Manager on Linux, and targets on Windows, I took the challenge of modernizing the customer’s environment a bit. And the starting point , 12.1.0.5 for OMS and 12.1.0.2 database as repository wasn’t that bad at all. This post is purely about upgrading the OMS. Upgrading agents is a different story with Windows as target.
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