The more this book continues, the more we move on to the Cloud part which is part of Oracle's future strategy. Before we come up with Exalogic in the final chapter, we will first take a look at WebLogic's position in Oracle's Enterprise Cloud Management. In this chapter, we will see how we can scale up WebLogic 12 into Enterprise Manager 12c, how we can manage and monitor our environments, and more interesting features it can offer us.
Enterprise Manager was the first in the product-line which Oracle brought to 12c and it is the first complete Cloud Management Solution with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c covers:
- Complete Lifecycle Management
- Integrated Cloud Stack Management
- Business-driven Application Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c (Cloud Control) is a complete solution for having a centralized monitoring system framework built with:
- An Oracle Database which hosts a repository
- WebLogic Server which runs a Java EE application
- An ADF GUI for doing administration tasks
- Client agents for sending notifications to Enterprise Manager 12c
Database hosts the so-called Oracle Management Repository(OMR), and WebLogic the Management Service (OMS).
The ADF Web GUI is called Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. And at last, there are server- and client-side plugins in the format of Oracle Virtualization. These plugins are for Oracle Virtual Manager based systems.
All together, these products are bundled into one common name: Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) or Enterprise Manager (EM).