New Enterprise Manager Article published on Oracle Technical Network (OTN)

Friends,

I am pleased to announce that a new article of mine has been published in October 2012 on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN).

Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching: 
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/oem/havewala-patching-oem12c-1864147.html

This is excerpted from my new book "Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos", published by Packt Publishing. Enjoy the world of Enterprise Manager!!

Regards,

Porus.

Oracle Enterprise Manager NEW VERSION Launch Event on Monday

Join Oracle Enterprise Manager launch event on Monday 3rd October at 5 PM pacific time.

Live : http://bit.ly/qC1C6y Online : http://bit.ly/rdwW9O #OOW11

News from my publisher

News from my publisher: Due to unforeseen printer-related delays for my EM Book, orders placed for the book may not have been delivered so far. The publisher is now using a new printer and expects to start delivery of my EM book very soon. If you have already placed an order, please wait another week or so for delivery. Thanks for your patience.

Regards,

Porus.

My Oracle White Paper published

Friends,

The good news is that I have recently written an Oracle White paper that has been published. This is my first white paper in addition to my articles already published on the Oracle Technical Network.

The white paper is on Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g. The paper has been announced in the Enterprise Manager Newsletter of September 2010.

Please read and recommend to your friends! Thanks very much.

Regards,

Porus.

Oracle Live Webcasts on "Improving Business Performance with Oracle Core Technology"

Friends, If you and your colleagues are interested, you can attend Oracle Live Webcasts on "Improving Business Performance with Oracle Core Technology". This is to show you how to improve business performance with small changes to your database. The results are rapid and can make a real difference to the performance of all your applications.

Check out the EMEA live Webcast in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish here. You learn about how to transform your database with a big impact on the business. The contents of the Webcasts also cover topics relevant for Oracle Enterprise Manager (business-driven Application management, integrated application-to-disk management, performance, analytics, availability etc.).

Rejoined Oracle

I am happy to announce that I have rejoined Oracle, in the Enterprise Technology team, focussing on Oracle Enterprise Manager.

My ACE status has also changed from an Oracle ACE Director, to an Oracle Employee ACE.

I look forward to working more closely on Oracle Enterprise Manager from now on.

New Article on Oracle GoldenGate published

Friends,

I am pleased to announce a New article of mine has been published in April 2010
on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN):

Using Oracle GoldenGate for Real-Time Data Integration
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/havawala-goldengate.html

This article shows you how to install, set up, and configure Oracle GoldenGate to easily achieve seamless replication of data between Oracle Database 10g and 11g. The Enterprise Manager Management Pack for Oracle GoldenGate is also described (Oracle GoldenGate Director).

Feedback I received recently from a DBA:

I read your article "Using Oracle GoldenGate for Real-Time Data
Integration" in oracle.com technology section.It was very interesting and
nicely documented. Thanks for writing good articles like this.

Regards,

Porus.

Announcing the launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

Representing years of research, planning, and development, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g is set to be unveiled on April 22 by Oracle President Charles Phillips.

If you are in the New York area, join Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Senior Vice President Richard Sarwal for the launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g. You can register here: http://bit.ly/bqUskZ

It's also possible to show your interest or even if your attending at this LinkedIn event. http://events.linkedin.com/Oracle-Enterprise-Manager-11g-Launch-New/pub/258070

If you're not able to attende the Live event, don't worry about that, we will be live broadcasting it. You can register for that live webcast from this page: http://bit.ly/9Qnh5f

- The Oracle Enterprise Manager team

Lots of interest in new book

Friends, I have received lots of interest in my new upcoming book (http://www.rampant-books.com/book_1001_advanced_techniques_oem_grid_control.htm), thanks for that.
Here are some of your comments, thanks a lot guys. The book is to be published this Fall 2010.

That is a fantastic news Porus. I will definitely read this book. Do let me
know once it is out in the market. All the very best to your book.

Congrats Sir, will spread the mail around to all my tech staffs.

Congradulations!!! I will look for it.

Congratz on publishing the new book Porus.

Congratulations on the new book. I am wondering if there is a way to get an advance copy of this book either in electronic format or in physical format? I am very interested in this subject.

Porus - Congratulations on completing the book. I will like to get a copy for myself once available in the market.

Well done on putting the book together.I will keep an eye out for it downunder in Australia.

Congratulations on the publication of your New Book!

Eager enough to buy your book on Grid Control as we have installed 10g Grid Control in our environment and I'm sure it'll be boon to us.

Congratulations Porus. Will definetly by it! I with you to finish this book with success.

Congrats !!! Looking a lot more like this....

Congratulations !I am sure that will help lots of DBAs to upgrade from DBA v1.0 to DBA v2.0 in Oracle's terminology.

Good Luck with this.

Congratulations big achievement

Went through the details of your book, it's really a comprehensive guide for the GC guys. Best of luck for your efforts & continue with you endeavour.

Good Luck Porus, would be an interesting read.

My New Grid Control book

Friends,

I am pleased to announce that my new book "Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control: Advanced OEM Techniques for the Real World" is getting ready to be published soon (Fall 2010) by Rampant Techpress:

http://www.rampant-books.com/book_1001_advanced_techniques_oem_grid_control.htm

Please do recommend to all your friends and colleagues, it is a great handy book if you really want to make best use of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

I have based it on a lot of practical experience and I am sure it will be useful to a lot of you.

Regards,

Porus Homi Havewala
(Oracle ACE Director).

Final 2009 seminar on Oracle Performance Options, Products and Enterprise Manager Packs

This Friday, I conducted another interesting seminar which was S&I System's last Oracle seminar for the year. The topic was Oracle Performance Options, Products and Enterprise Manager Packs.

These were the topics I covered. The clients were introduced to many new Oracle concepts for the first time.

• Partitioning Option, and improvements in 11gR2
• Parallel Query Option, and improvements in 11gR2
• Advanced Compression Option (11g), and Hybrid Columnar Compression in 11gR2
• Active Data Guard (11g)
• In-memory Database Cache (Times-Ten), and it's Grid in 11gR2
• Enterprise Manager Diagnostics and Tuning Packs
  

The following Enterprise Manager packs were also demonstrated in live demos:

• Service Level Management Pack
• Configuration Management Pack
• Diagnostics and Tuning Packs
• Remedy Connector
  

I also demo'ed the new Enterprise Manager feature of SQL Monitoring of long-running SQL in 11g databases, which suitably impressed the attendees.

A number of clients immediately expressed interest in using the Service Level Management and Configuration Management packs for their hundreds of database targets, and discussed Grid Control architecture for such large systems.

The 2009 list of successful Oracle seminars conducted by S&I Systems can be seen on:

http://www.si-asia.com/marketing/oracleworkshops2009/

Patch a Thousand Databases, Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

I am happy to announce that a brand-new article of mine has been published on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) on 3rd Sept 2009. The article is titled :

"Patch a Thousand Databases, Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control".

You can read the full article with all the illustrations at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/havewala-patch1000.html

The article will allow you to "Get a tour of the automated patching capabilities now available to Oracle DBAs", especially the fantastic new Deployment Procedures.

Please read and tell your friends about it. I am sure you will find it very interesting.

I have received many good comments about this article, one of them on a LINKEDIN.COM Oracle discussion group was from a DBA Team Leader:

"Great article. Very comprehensive with screenshots and covers every details
in patching thru the Grid Control. A must read for every DBA. Thanks."

New One-Off Patch on top of 10.2.0.5 for Patch Automation

Download the latest one-off patch introducing fixes on Patch Automation feature from Enterprise Manager 10.2.0.5(Patch Number: 8653501)

Download the patch and apply it on one/all of the OMS server. Make sure you complete the additional steps in the readme.

Patch Summary

This one-off patch is applicable on top of 10.2.0.5 Enterprise manager, the patch introduces:

1. Enhanced Pre-requisites checks to standard deployment procedures,which can be invoked in Analyze mode to verify the applicability of the patch on the database environment.

Run the Deployment Procedures in Analyze Mode to do complete patchability check before the actual patching cycle. The below two modes are seen in the Review page during the Deployment procedure execution.

On submitting in ‘Analyze’ mode, the pre-req checks are run and you could check for the results with recommendations under RESULTS tab

2. Two new reports, accessible under Reports tab:
a. EM Target Patchability Report: Provides a comprehensive report on the automated patchability of the database environment managed by Grid control.
b. Patching Deployment Procedure Execution Summary Report: Provides a summary view of the deployment procedure's execution status across the given time period.

Deployment Procedures that are modified by the patch,
1. 'Patch Oracle Database'
2. 'Patch Oracle RAC - Rolling'
3. 'Patch Oracle RAC - All Nodes'
These procedures are accessible under 'Patching through Deployment Procedures'
in 'Deployments' page and versioned 5.1.

Related Metalink Note: 427577.1 : OMS and Agent Patches required for setting up Provisioning,Patching and Cloning in 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.5 GC

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