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Gold Agent Image
The Gold Agent Image is going to simplify agent management in EM13c, something a lot of folks are going to appreciate. First step to using this new feature is to create a image to be used as your gold...
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How to Find Information in the OMR, (Enterprise Manager Repository)
I get a lot of questions starting with, “Where do I find…” and end with “in the Oracle Management Repository, (OMR)?” The answer to this is one that most DBAs are going to use, as it’s no different...
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EM13c Cloning- Part II, Demands from Test Master and Kellyn
On my previous post, I submitted a job to create a test master database in my test environment. Now my test environment is a sweet offering of containers that simulate a multi-host scenario, but in...
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EM13c Corrective Actions
While at Collaborate 2016, a number of us were surprised that people still aren’t using Corrective Actions and in EM13c, there are a number of cool ones built into the system to make your life easier....
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EM13c- BI Publisher Reports
How much do you know about the big push to BI Publisher reports from Information Publisher reporting in Enterprise Manager 13c? Be honest now, Pete Sharman is watching…. I promise, there won’t be a...
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EM13c Proxy Setup, MOS and CSI Setup
The change in EM13c, is that it support multiple proxies, but you may still not know how to set up a proxy and then use it with your MOS credentials and then assign out your CSI’s to targets. Proxies...
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Enterprise Manager Support Files 101- The EMOMS files
Someone pinged me earlier today and said, “Do I even really need to know about logs in Enterprise Manager? I mean, it’s a GUI, (graphical user interface) so the logs should be unnecessary to the...
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Enterprise Manager Friday Tip- Management Packs and Annotations
Licensing can be a confusing topic for many, but additional stress can be felt for those that use tools that cover multiple products and features that can span more than one management pack. I’ve...
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Blue Medora’s Brian Williams Blogs About Custom Monitoring Templates
Monitoring templates are an essential feature to a basic Enterprise Manager environment, ensuring consistent monitoring across groups and target types. There’s an incredibly vast group of experts in...
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EM13c- Applying System Patches with the OMS Patcher
The OMS Patcher is a newer patching mechanism for the OMS specifically, (I know, the name kind of gave it away…) Although there are a number of similarities to Oracle’s infamous OPatch, I’ve been...
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Database Comparisons Using AWR Warehouse Part 1- ADDM Comparison
A lot of my ideas for blog posts come from questions emailed to me or asked via Twitter. Today’s blog is no different, as I was asked by someone in the community what the best method of comparing...
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Database Comparisons with AWR Warehouse- Part II, Comparison Period Report
There are two ways to compare one database to another in the AWR Warehouse. I covered the ADDM Comparison Report here and now we’ll go through the second one, which is much more involved and has us...
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Configuration Management Searches in EM13c
With the addition of the Configuration Management from OpsCenter to Enterprise Manager 13c, there are some additional features to ease the management of changes and drift in Enterprise Manager, but I’m...
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Changes to Configuration Management in EM13c
Change is difficult for technical folks. Our world is always moving at blinding speed, so if you start changing things that we don’t think need to be changed, even if you improve upon them, we’re not...
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EM13c Monitoring Non-Oracle Databases
This last week I presented at Great Lakes Oracle Conference, (GLOC16) and the discussion on monitoring of non-Oracle databases came up while we were on the topic of management packs, how to monitor...
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Short-term Answers Vs. The Correct Answer
Enterprise Manager does a LOT. Sometimes it may do too much. Customers on forums, on support or via email and social media may come to us asking how to address something they view as not working...
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Options For Pre-EM13c Target Software and Non-Supported OS in EM13c
Per Oracle documentation, you’re able to upgrade from EM12c to EM13c, including the OMR, (Oracle Management Repository) to DB12c and the OMS, (Oracle Management Service) to EM13c, but leave the agent...
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EM13c, Configuration Management and Comparing Targets
How many times have you had maintenance or a release complete and everyone is sure that everything’s been put back the way it should have been, all t’s crossed, all i’s dotted and then you release it...
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