The latest Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 12c is Oracle's monitoring and management product of choice for the majority of Oracle software and applications. By leveraging OEM Cloud Control, you can monitor and manage all your Oracle and non-Oracle software through a single centralized console.
OEM Cloud Control should not be confused with Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and especially with Oracle Enterprise Manager, which is a console shipped with the Oracle Database and older versions of the Oracle Application Server.
An agent (specifically, the Oracle Management Agent) is installed on every server you wish to monitor, and the data on that system is collected and reported back to the central repository (specifically, the Oracle Management Server) at regular intervals. It is through the Oracle Management Server (OMS) that you can log in via a web browser to view the server status and performance, configure alerts, and perform administrative tasks.
For environments with a large number of applications, systems, and servers, we recommend you to use a monitoring tool such as OEM Cloud Control to simplify the monitoring and management functions of the administrator. Some key benefits of OEM Cloud Control include the following:
- Centralized monitoring and management of both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and software
- Preconfigured alerts
- Out-of-the-box support for targets such as applications (for example, Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Applications), middleware (for example, Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite), databases, operating systems (for example, Windows, Linux, AIX, and Solaris), virtual machines, and more
- The ability to perform administrative functions such as start up/shut down, patching, cloning, provisioning, capturing diagnostic information, and much more
- The following screenshot provides information about component instances:
Figure 6.25: SOA composite instance search and trace (image courtesy of Oracle Corporation)
The Oracle SOA Management Pack Enterprise Edition is a separate license, which extends OEM Cloud Control to provide additional functionality such as visibility into complex SOA orchestrations, monitoring of security policies, performance monitoring of Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus, and tracing of end-to-end transactions across tiers.
Though Figure 6.25 looks very similar to what we are accustomed to seeing in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, imagine performing these functions for all your environments from a single, centralized console!