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OEM Grid Control 11g becomes more and more popular
It allows to operate and monitor Oracle components (targets) like databases, listeners, hosts, Weblogic Servers etc.
OEM Grid Control 11g provides a new infrastructure and some new features like MOS integration
Some OEM Grid Control 11g features help to decrease the Oracle management overhead like patch deployment with the “Patch Plans”
Grid Control 11g
Introduction
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Agenda
OEM Grid Control 11g
i. OEM Grid Control 11g overview
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
iii. Increase database availability through OEM Grid Control 11g
Agenda
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
i. OEM Grid Control 11g overview
OEM Grid Control architecture overview
OEM Grid Control 11g What's new?
OEM Grid control licensing and packs
Grid Control 11g overview
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Grid Control 11g overview
Architecture
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Storage Systems (i. e. ASM) Databases Servers
Grid Control targets – Monitored by Oracle Agents
... ...
Pull Method:
RefreshFromMyOracleSupport
Job
WLS 10.3.2
Harvester Web
Monitoring Console
OMS Database
OMS Server
Push Method:
OCM & Harvesters
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
i. OEM Grid Control 11g overview
OEM Grid Control architecture overview
OEM Grid Control 11g What's new?
OEM Grid control licensing and packs
Grid Control 11g overview
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The Name: Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g
Grid Control 10g compliant
Enterprise Manager because it deals with enterprise management
New architecture: Weblogic Server instead of Oracle Application Server (like other Fusion Middleware products)
Better integration of My Oracle Support
My Oracle Support interface is directly integrated in the console
New Patch plan concept, managed from the MOS allows to download, validate, install, and apply patches (validation was not possible in 10.2.0.5)
Better integration of Oracle VM Virtualization (no patch needed)
Grid Control 11g
What„s new:
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Grid Control 11g
What„s new ? – MOS integration
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
i. OEM Grid Control 11g overview
OEM Grid Control architecture overview
OEM Grid Control 11g What's new?
OEM Grid control licensing and packs
Grid Control 11g overview
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OEM Grid Control 11g is free of charge
Only the packs must be licensed
Most important Pack for Monitoring is the Diagnostic Pack
The diagnostic pack is needed in the following cases:
An alert is sent by e-mail from Grid Control
A tool or script accesses Grid Control Monitoring tables
Same licence model as the databases covered by monitoring
NUP and Processor models are available
OEM Grid Control 11g repository database does not need database licences
OEM can only be licensed with Enterprise Edition licenses
Grid Control 11g
OEM Grid control licensing and packs
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Agenda
OEM Grid Control 11g
i. OEM Grid Control 11g overview
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
iii. Increase database availability through OEM Grid Control 11g
Agenda
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Grid Control 11g overview
Patch plan architecture
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Pull Method:
RefreshFromMyOracleSupport
Job
OMS Database
OMS Server
Software Library
MOS Credentials
Scheduled Job
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
Manage Software Library
OEM Grid Control 11g & MOS
Refresh From My Oracle Support
Patch Plans
OCM & Harvesters
Decrease management efforts
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The software library is where downloaded patches will be stored before installation
Deployments Provisioning Administration Software
Library Configuration
Example:
Grid Control 11g
Software Library
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
Manage Software Library
OEM Grid Control 11g & MOS
Refresh From My Oracle Support
Patch Plans
OCM & Harvesters
Decrease management efforts
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MOS is integrated in OEM Grid Control 11g
The MOS account must be configured
RefreshFromMyOracleSupport job is directly created
Grid Control 11g
OEM Grid Control 11g & MOS
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
Manage Software Library
OEM Grid Control 11g & MOS
Refresh From My Oracle Support
Patch Plans
OCM & Harvesters
Decrease management efforts
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The RefreshFromMyOracleSupport Job retrieves the MOS information in order to compare the patch status of the monitored targets
This job is created while setting the MOS credential settings
The job must be copied in the Job Library and scheduled once a day
Grid Control 11g
Refresh From My Oracle Support Job
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
Manage Software Library
OEM Grid Control 11g & MOS
Refresh From My Oracle Support
Patch Plans
OCM & Harvesters
Decrease management efforts
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Through the MOS integration and refreshed information, patch advices are displayed
These patches can be deployed with the OEM Grid Control 11g patch plan feature
To use patch plans the Oracle provisioning and patch automation pack must be licensed
Grid Control 11g
Patch plans
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- DEMO -
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Patch plans allow to decrease Oracle software management overhead
Patch plans can be easily monitored and recovered in case of errors
However patch plan need an internet access to be efficient. The offline requires manual download of the patches
The technology must be trusted for patching, however might be more efficient than human-patching :-)
Grid Control 11g
Patch plans - conclusions
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Agenda
Grid Control 11g
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
Manage Software Library
OEM Grid Control 11g & MOS
Refresh From My Oracle Support
Patch Plans
OCM & Harvesters
Decrease management efforts
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The Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) allows to provide information about your infrastructure to My Oracle Support
Through OCM Oracle can evaluate the benefit of some fixes/patches according to your environment
As soon as a patch is installed, OCM informs the Oracle support which adapts re-evaluates the advices
Grid Control offers an improved functionality based on the Harvester
This functionality exists since 10.2.0.5 but is now better integrated in Grid Control 11g
This feature allows to avoid deploying an OCM configuration per server
Grid Control 11g
OCM & Harvester architecture
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Grid Control 11g overview
OCM & Harvester architecture
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OMS Database
OMS Server
Software Library
Harvester Push Method:
OCM & Harvesters
oracle@vmtestoraem1:/u00/app/oracle/ [oms11g] crontab -l
# OCM configured with :
# /u01/app/oracle/Oracle/Middleware/oms11g/ccr/bin/setupCCR –s
# 17672225 [email protected] CH
0,15,30,45 * * * * /u00/app/oracle/Middleware/oms11g/ccr/bin/emCCR -cron
-silent start
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In MOS the OCM discovered targets can be associated to a CSI number
Oracle provides (preventive) advices and ease the SR creation, based on a target discovered by the OCM
CSI association:
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OCM & Harvester architecture
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The Harvester Job is integrated in the OEM Grid Control maintenance jobs
Go in “Setup Management Services and Repository Errors” to identify any Harvester configuration error. For instance the missing OCM on the OMS server :
Grid Control 11g
OCM & Harvester architecture
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Agenda
OEM Grid Control 11g
i. OEM Grid Control 11g overview
ii. Decrease management efforts with OEM Grid Control 11g
iii. Increase database availability through OEM Grid Control 11g
Agenda
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dbi services proposes professional database infrastructure services (SLA)
Grid Control 11g might be the monitoring platform
Therefore some monitoring standards have been defined
These standards are documented, validated and maintained by consultants and the Service Management Team
Grid Control 11g
Increase database availability (1)
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The dbi services templates exist for :
Database monitoring
Listener monitoring
Host Monitoring
The templates can be imported and applyied with the following statements :
Grid Control 11g
Increase database availability (2)
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emcli import_template -files=DBI_DB_MONITORING_TEMPLATE.xml
emcli import_template -files=DBI_HOST_MONITORING_TEMPLATE.xml
emcli import_template -files=DBI_LISTENER_MONITORING_TEMPLATE.xml
emcli apply_template -name=DBI_DB_MONITORING_TEMPLATE
-targets=EMREP:oracle_database
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Oracle Grid Control 11g is a powerful monitoring and management framework
In order to provide a clear advantage compared to other monitoring tools, Oracle proposes a deep MOS integration
Grid Control becomes also a software management framework allowing to benefit quickly from Oracle deployment
Despite the costs and licensing strategy, OEM Grid Control 11g is now accepted by many customers (Monitoring tools are expansive anyway)
dbi services proposes methods and standards to get access to this powerful framework
Grid Control 11g
Conclusion
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