Em13c features- HotSos 2016

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Kellyn Pot’Vin-GormanConsulting Member of Enterprise Manager Technical TeamStrategic Customer ProgramMarch, 2016

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Enterprise Manager 13c Releases

New User Interface

Upgrading and the Cloud

Top New Features

Advanced Features



Enterprise Manager 13c- Yay, It’s HERE!!



New Interface

• The Enterprise Manager user interface (UI) was redesigned with a cleaner overall look and simplified page views.

• For those considering using EM13c via mobile, Users experience faster page load times and enhanced visualization and graphics.

Clean, Modern Interface Update


EM Upgrade - runInstaller (OUI)Step 0: Mandatory: Upgrade Repository DB

from 11g to 12.1.0.2 version

Step 1: Bring down your 12.1.0.3 /12.1.0.4/12.1.0.5 OMS and invoke EM 13.1em_linux64.bin

Step 2: Upgrade your OMS and repository (Use1-system option in Installer)

– Copying the bits and creating new homes

– Start the configuration assistants

Step 3: Use Gold Agent Image console to upgrade your 12.1.0.3 /12.1.0.4 /12.1.0.5 agents to 13.1

Downtime During Upgrades, Basic Upgrade

12.1.0.3 /12.1.0.4/12.1.0.5 13.1


Reduced Downtime in EM13c

12.1.0.3 /12.1.0.4/12.1.0.5 13.1EM Upgrade - Software only Install Step 0: Mandatory: Upgrade Repository DB from

11g to 12.1.0.2 version

Step 1: Invoke EM 13.1 installer and choose option: Install software only– Copying the bits and creating new homes

Step 2: Bring down your 12.1.0.3 /12.1.0.4/12.1.0.5 OMS. Start the configuration and Upgrade your OMS and repository (Use1-system option in Installer)

Run $<MIDDLEWARE_HOME>/sysman/install/ConfigureGC.sh

Step 3: Use Gold Agent Image console to upgrade your 12.1.0.3 /12.1.0.4 /12.1.0.5 agents to 13.1


Agent Upgrade Console


Eases Full Upgrade of EM12c to EM13c by allowing upgrade of agents after the

fact.*

*12.1.0.5 agents are supported by EM13c


Compliance Dashboards to Monitor Progress


Different agent image and what was

deployed


Ability to Export/Import Rule Sets

• Sometimes instead of cloning an EM environment, it would be beneficial to simply pull over one feature to another EM.

• You an now export Incident Rule Sets from one Enterprise Manager site and imported into another. These eases the demands to replicate rule sets from one environment to another, including production to development and test, etc.

• The exported rule set is stored as an XML file.


Rule Set Migration Made Easy

• The exported rule set includes all entities like subscribers to the rules, email addresses of recipients, targets on which the rule set operates, and notification methods.

• The import option includes an option that if these entities exist in the EM environment, then they are kept in the rule set, otherwise they’re removed.



Integrated EM Deployment

BI Publisher 12.1.0.3 integrated with EM

– BI directory under middleware home

– EMCTL option to start/stop BIP along with OMS

– Install will allocate BIP Ports HTTPS/ HTTP

– Shared storage config to support BIP on Additional OMS

– Ability to select and de-select BIP as part of Install

JVMD integration with EM– JVMD gets deployed using FMW plug-in as part of EM install

–Only one JVMD Engine to be deployed on a OMS host

– EMCTL commands to show/start/stop JVMD


System Broadcast and Always On Monitoring

• Having the ability to send a global, pop-up message to all users of EM13c is a very productive feature.

• Allowing a quick and single interface for administrator communication within Enterprise Manager.


Creating a System Broadcast

• This is performed from the Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface, (there is no EMCC option for this feature)

• Log into the EM CLI

$./emcli send_system_broadcast

-toOption=“ALL"

-messageType="WARN"

-message=“Message You Would like to Appear"

• You can also send messages to distinct EM users with the toOption=“SPECIFIC” and –to=“user” option.



Multiple Proxy Support

• Often the Cloud Administrator is required to configure multiple proxies for agents and OMS. These proxies, (i.e. aliases, allow the administrator to eliminate OMS cycles and other maintenance headaches. The proxies are managed just as you would any physical target, even when down.

• Agents are associated with the proxies by name or pattern. Using patterns offer savings in configuration of single targets, using a pattern to recognize and identify the agents.

• Multiple proxies can be associated with single agent and vice-versa, which eliminates a single point of failure.


Proxy Support Demands



Enhancements to Corrective Actions

• Corrective actions are one of the most powerful automation tools you can implement in Enterprise Manager.

• With 13c, an enhancement to support all event types including Compliance Standard Rule violations, Service Level Agreement (SLA) alerts, and job status events.

• DevOps has been incorporated into corrective actions, offering the administrator an easy way to develop, test and release to production where before there wasn’t one.

• The Cloud Administrator can now respond automatically to events with common responses by scripting.


Corrective Actions Are Your Savior



Corrective Actons, Cont.

• Support for all event types.

• Support for compliance rules. This will allow users to associate corrective actions with various compliance checks.

• Automated invocation using event rules.

• Ability to attach the latest corrective actions automatically.


Save Repository Space with Intelligent Compression

• Having copies of the same incident can allocate unnecessary space in the repository. With Intelligent Incident Compression, duplicates of the same incident can be compressed and saved as one.

• There are different criteria to save space the way the Cloud Administrator requires-– grouping by targets on the same host.

– targets belonging to the same aggregate target.

– grouping by event category

– grouping events by metric.

– By a window of time.

• Along with Compression, intelligent grouping allows for space savings.


New Job System Interface



New Job System


Job Explorer resultsBuild out query


Change View



The Job System Now Can Use Chef!

• EM13c has added a new job type, Chef!

• The software library now supports managing and accessing both Chef cookbooks and recipes

• The deployment procedures have been extended to support the execution of Chef recipes.

• Remember that the Chef cookbooks and recipes can exist either in the software library or locally to a host target.

1. Ensure that chef-solo has been setup and is available.

2. Create a software library folder.

3. Upload a Chef cookbook.

4. Create a job using the Chef job type and submit it.


Chef Support

• New Job Type in the EM Job System

–Must have Chef Solo set up as a pre-requisite.

– Supports the execution of Chef recipes

– Chef Recipes can exist in the Software library or on the target host.


Simple Ubuntu Server…$ sudo aptitude update

$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Install Chef:

$ sudo aptitude install -y ruby ruby1.8-dev build-essential wget

libruby1.8 rubygems

$ sudo gem update --no-rdoc --no-ri

$ sudo gem install ohai chef --no-rdoc --no-ri

$chef-solo

http://www.mechanicalfish.net/configure-a-server-with-chef-solo-in-five-minutes/

http://www.mechanicalfish.net/configure-a-server-with-chef-solo-in-five-minutes/


EM CLI Verbs Specific to Chef


emcli add_chef_cookbook -name="component_name" -folder_name="swlib_folder_name" -

filename="filename" -recipe_names="recipe_name11;recipe_name2;..."

emcli delete_chef_cookbook -name="component_name" -folder_name="swlib_folder_name"

emcli create_jobemcli create_library_jobemcli create_job_from_library

Standard Verbs Once Added


Gold Agent ImageCommand line interface - EMCLI

Create

Gold Agent Image

Deploy

List Update

• Create Gold Image

• emcli create_gold_agent_image

Deploy agents using Gold Image

emcli submit_add_host –gold_image_name

Update existing agents to latest Gold Image

emcli update_agents

List gold images in software library

emcli list_gold_agent_images


Enhancements to Gold Image Agent Deployment

• How much time to you spend on managing EM agents? Simplifying this process can really offer time savings-

– Automate recovery during an agent upgrade or an agent plug-in deployment with an upgrade

–What everyone wants, zero downtime for agent maintenance including patching, upgrade, and plug-ins

– Compliance guarantees for agent configurations

– DevOps export/import opportunity from test to production Enterprise Manager environments.

– Reports to show current gold agent deployments and opportunities to meet compliance.


Gold Agent Image Console


Two Gold Agent Images, One in Use


Enhanced Software Library

• Performance when working with the software library can be very important.

• The feature incorporates staging content and

• Efficiency has been added to the software library to increase performance of large files over a WAN or remote servers.

• This improvement also includes remote geo locations, introducing the concept of cache nodes which can stage content on servers local to that subnet..

• All subsequent file transfers are initiated from the cache nodes, reducing transfer time and required bandwidth.


Always On Monitoring



Configuration Management• Search and History Integration- Simplify searches on configurations and retain historical searches.

• Improved Configuration Item Search- The “look ahead” option makes it easier to find items.

• Advanced Logic Support- You can use AND/OR conditions in searches to create reports.

• Inventory and Usage Details- Including MS SQL Server and DB2


Cloud Lifecycle Success Plan


• Map out your infrastructure requirement• physical and virtual networks, storage arrays,

applications , etc.• You can generate consolidation advisories that include

plans to:• Physical to Virtual (P2V)• Physical to Physical (P2P)• Physical to an Exadata

• Plan out:• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)• Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)• Middleware-as-a-Service (MWaaS) clouds


If You Don’t Use DBaaS for Clones….

• Transportable tablespaces?

• Datapump?

• Copying of files to cloud locations?

• SERIOUSLY?



Simplify with Hybrid Cloud



Ease of Management



Forget about it….



Register External Storage Solutions

• Supports NAS and NFS

• Add Storage for VM’s easily


following software components can be stored in the storage repository: ■ Oracle VM Templates ■ Oracle Virtual Assemblies ■ ISOs ■ Virtual Disks ■ VM Files


Engineered Systems• Automate patching with patchsets

on Exadata and Exalytics, which includes patch recommendations, auto patch download.

• VM provisioning on Exadata12.1.2.1.0 virtualization is now supported and provides an efficient, completely automated mechanism for scheduled mass deployments.

• Administrators can now perform all of this from the Cloud Console.


EM13c VM Manager

• If you had Oracle VM Manager 3.0.x registered with Enterprise Manager previously and had upgraded it to higher versions 3.1.x or 3.2.1, you must update the Oracle VM Manager URL.



Keep in Mind

• You must upgrade your repository database to 12.1.0.2 along with the EM when going to EM13c.

• Ensure your EM environment is healthy by running a full EM Diagnostics on your environment before taking on an upgrade:

$repvfy diag all

• Ensure you’ve sized your EM environment properly. If you’re running on the same server you ran EM10g, probably not….



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