Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's on-premises management platform that provides a single dashboard to manage all Oracle deployments, whether in your data center or in the cloud. Through deep integration with Oracle products, it provides market-leading automation and management support for Oracle applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems.

Oracle Enterprise Manager offers a variety of products and features, including:

1. Application Performance Management

Oracle's APM solution is designed for both enterprise data center and cloud deployments, supporting both Oracle and non-Oracle platforms. Oracle APM delivers business-driven application management with end-to-end monitoring, which includes:

• User Experience Management: Real user monitoring and synthetic transaction monitoring with RUEI (Real User Experience Insight) and service level management beacons, respectively.
• Database and Java Diagnostics and Monitoring: Production database and Java diagnostics with no overhead for both Oracle and non-Oracle platforms.
• Discovery and Topology: Multi-layer discovery of infrastructure and application topology.
• Application Performance Analysis: Rich analytics and reporting capabilities for real user activities and transaction monitoring data.

These capabilities allow you to:

• Achieve better business/IT alignment with 6 to 12.5 times less effort than competing APM solutions.
• Isolate and diagnose issues 3 to 5 times faster than with other APM solutions.
• Reduce downtime by up to 73%.
• Increase online revenue by up to 25%.

 

2. Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Enterprise Manager 13c provides the most comprehensive solution for deploying an Oracle-based database as a service cloud for enterprise users. It offers the broadest, most complete set of capabilities to create, deploy, and manage the end-to-end cloud lifecycle, all from a single console.

Enterprise Manager provides unmatched architectural options for database consolidation. The solution offers a selection of DBaaS service models, including virtual machines on shared servers, dedicated databases on shared servers, dedicated schemas (Schema as a Service), and pluggable databases (Pluggable as a Service) using Oracle Database 18c Multitenant.

Additionally, Enterprise Manager provides full cloning automation, including Snap Clone and full cloning, which can support a wide range of activities, from performance testing to functional testing. All cloning services come integrated with data masking and the ability to change configuration and software versions. Cloud administrators can manage the complete lifecycle of source data, including on-demand data capture, data refresh, and the creation of new profile revisions.

Finally, Fleet Maintenance enables administrators to patch and upgrade database software with minimal downtime. The subscription-based model allows for scale-wide upgrades across the cloud infrastructure, significantly reducing the time required for maintenance activities. A ready-to-use dashboard allows administrators to track compliance in cloud environments in real time.

 

3. Database Lifecycle Management Pack

Oracle Enterprise Manager’s Database Lifecycle Management solution automates time-consuming tasks related to discovery, initial provisioning and cloning, patching, configuration management, continuous change management, and compliance management.

The Database Lifecycle Management Pack comes with ready-to-use deployment procedures for provisioning, cloning, and patching Oracle databases (single-instance, CDB, PDB, and RAC databases), including the underlying infrastructure.

Enterprise Manager supports the complete lifecycle management of databases, including Oracle Database 19c and Oracle Multitenant Databases. A database administrator can also provision a new database from a golden image, which, along with configuration details, can be captured in provisioning profiles.

The configuration and compliance management capabilities of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack enforce standardization through proactive deviation monitoring and real-time compliance auditing against best practices and internal and industry benchmarks.

The Database Lifecycle Management Pack provides full automation for schema deployment by capturing application schema object definitions as a golden definition, known as the dictionary baseline. When all development changes are complete, DBAs can save these baselines and propagate changes to any target database environment.

Lastly, Enterprise Manager provides a single dashboard to monitor and manage both on-premises and Oracle Cloud (public cloud) deployments, all from the same management console. Enterprise Manager offers comprehensive capabilities for managing, migrating, testing, and deploying across the hybrid cloud, enabling 100% reuse of existing IT operations management skills and practices.

4. Database Management

Increase DBA productivity by 80% and reduce database testing time by 90%. Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager provide the industry's most comprehensive self-management capabilities, ranging from overhead-free instrumentation to built-in self-repair and full lifecycle management for databases deployed anywhere: on-premises, Exadata, Oracle Cloud, Exadata Cloud, and third-party clouds. Oracle Enterprise Manager’s database management capabilities include the following key features:

• Performance Management through Automatic Workload Repository (AWR), AWR Warehouse, Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), baselines, and adaptive AWR thresholds with ASH analysis.
• Application Tuning with SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Access Advisor, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, and Database Operations Monitoring.
• Response Time Testing using SQL Performance Analyzer, SPA Quick Check.
• Performance Testing through Database Replay.

 

5. Hardware and Virtualization Management

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s on-premises management platform, providing a single pane of glass for managing Oracle environments, whether in customer data centers or Oracle Cloud. With deep integration into the Oracle product stack, Enterprise Manager provides market-leading management and automation for Oracle-engineered systems, databases, middleware, and hardware.

Oracle Enterprise Manager delivers an integrated, cost-effective solution for complete lifecycle management of both physical and virtual servers. With comprehensive provisioning, patching, monitoring, administration, and configuration management capabilities through a web-based user interface, Enterprise Manager significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with managing Oracle Solaris and Linux operating systems, as well as virtual environments (Solaris Zones and OVM for SPARC).

Additionally, companies using Oracle Sun hardware can gain deep insights into their engineered systems (Exadata and SuperCluster), servers, and network and storage infrastructure layers and manage thousands of systems in a scalable way.

Oracle Enterprise Manager helps customers accelerate virtualization and cloud computing adoption to optimize IT resources.

 

6. Middleware Management

Oracle's Middleware management capabilities make life easier for administrators by providing a full lifecycle solution encompassing configuration and compliance management, patching, provisioning, performance management, as well as administration and auditing.

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides comprehensive management for Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and non-Oracle middleware technology. Our offering includes management capabilities for the following middleware software:

 

• Oracle WebLogic Server
• Oracle Coherence
• Oracle Web Tier (e.g., Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Traffic Director)
• Oracle SOA Suite
• Oracle WebCenter Suite
• Oracle Identity Management
• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
• Non-Oracle Middleware (e.g., Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, and IBM WebSphere Application Server)

In addition to managing on-premises middleware software, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control can also manage all services running on Oracle Cloud at Customer or Oracle Cloud, whether these services are middleware, database, infrastructure, or hardware-based.

Oracle’s unique management solution allows Oracle Cloud at Customer to bring Oracle Cloud into customers’ data centers; it provides management and configuration capabilities for Oracle's database and middleware services and enables workload management between Oracle Cloud at Customer, Oracle Cloud, and on-premises environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager simplifies the cloud journey by allowing administrators to manage all their assets from a single management console.