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.

New EM12c White Paper on Monitoring Strategies published

Friends,

The Product Management Team of Oracle Enterprise Manager just published on OTN a monitoring white paper "Strategies for Scalable, Smarter Monitoring using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control".

It's meant to provide guidance/best practices to customers who would like to use the EM12c monitoring features -- admin groups, template collections, monitoring templates, incident rules, incident manager.

The paper is available in the Enterprise Monitoring section of the EM OTN pages. Here is a link to the paper.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/sys-mgmt/wp-em12c-monitoring-strategies-1564964.pdf

Looks like a great white paper and will fill a gap in the monitoring space.

Regards,

Porus.

New Cookbook for Database as a Service

Cloud Management in Enterprise Manager 12c is generating a huge amount of interest!! Have a look at the latest Cookbook by Oracle Product Management, this shows how to set up DbaaS (Database as a Service) step by step.

Database as a Service using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cookbook
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/cloud-mgmt/em12c-dbaas-cookbook-1432364.pdf

Regards,

Porus.

New White Paper Published "Managing Oracle Applications with EM"

Friends,

I am pleased to announce that a brand new white paper of mine has been published this month (June 2011) on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN):

White Paper: Managing Oracle Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

This white paper delves into the four Oracle Application Management Suites for Oracle’s E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne products and examines the many management capabilities that they offer for Oracle Applications. It is geared towards Oracle application managers and application administrators, with a goal to provide a clear understanding of the immense advantages and benefits the Application Management suites have to offer. It is a fantastic introduction to these powerful Application Management Suites of Oracle Enterprise Manager. Enjoy the world of Oracle EM !

Some comments in LinkedIn groups:

"Many congrats and really appreciate the efforts for the documentation on E-Biz related features. Highly informative. Its indeed a powerful EM :-)."

"Nice improvement over previous versions of EM! "

"This white paper is very useful for our jobs!"

"Hey .. Great white paper very valuable."

"Thanks for sharing this, very useful."

Thanks people for appreciating the white paper.

Regards,

Porus.

Latest List of my Published White Papers and Technical Articles on OTN

Many of you have asked me for a full list of all my published technical articles/white papers on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN), for easy reference. Here is the latest list as of Oct 2012. I have placed the white papers at the top, and the articles are in chronological order in the article list. The latest article on Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, published in October 2012, is right at the bottom of the list. A couple of these articles were even in the most popular OTN article list in 2009.

My Published White Papers on Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

White Paper: Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
White Paper: Managing Oracle Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

My Published Articles on Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
Using Grid Control with Filer Snapshotting
Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Architecture for Very Large Sites
Oracle RMAN Backups: Pushing the "Easy" Button
Patch a Thousand Databases, Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control
Easy Disaster Proof Production with Grid Control
Using Oracle GoldenGate for Real-Time Data Integration
Mask Your Secrets Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
Manage Mass Provisioning Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

Overview of Oracle EM Management Packs

Provision Your Oracle RAC Systems Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
NEW!! Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Happy Reading

Database Application Developer Newsletter

My recent Enterprise Manager RAC provisioning article is featured in the February 2011 Database Application Developer Newsletter sent out by Oracle to thousands of subscribers this month. See attached newsletter. My article is the second one after the download link.

http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/65962-dad-nl-304424.html?msgid=3-3351742848

My latest OTN Article: Provision Your Oracle RAC Systems Using Oracle Enterprise Manager

Friends,

A new technical article written by myself has just been published on the

Oracle Technology Network (OTN):

Provision Your Oracle RAC Systems Using Oracle Enterprise Manager

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/havewala-rac-provisioning-253418.html

(Published January 2011)

Learn how to seamlessly provision multi-node Oracle RAC systems in a

totally automated manner - including provisioning of RAC databases.

Have a look and spread the word.

Regards,

Porus.

EM Packs Overview Article featured in Database Application Developer Newsletter

My latest OTN Article "Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Packs" is featured in Oracle's Database Application Developer Newsletter of Jan 2011 (see attached link).

Database Application Developer Newsletter January 2011

http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/63869-dad-nl-209775.html?msgid=3-3138049431

How does Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control do so much across so many different systems? The answer is through the use of licensable Management Packs, Monitoring Plug-ins, and Connectors. This article provides an overview of how all the pieces fit together.

Shared loader directory, RAC and WebLogic Clustering

A friend wrote:

I was reading your paper on OTN http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/havewala-gridcontrol-088685.html Its a very interesting paper and well written. I am doing a similar implemention using OEM 11g on a RAC environment and had a few questions..

1. In the paper you reference about using an IP configuration to load balance between a RAC environment. In this option, uses will round robin between the two management servers running on the two instances. In this case, what happens to the feeds that come from the managed agents to the EM cluster. the feed from the agent is only received by one instance and the certain data such as the log details are available only on one instance.. how does the data get over to the other instances. Can i use ACFS to locate these files so that they are visible to both servers.

2. Have you tried to cluster the weblogic servers so that they make the OMS highly available? the Weblogic server that comes with the GC download is not complete and many of the features are not available. however if the organization has weblogic can this be used, what are the implications with use this option, specifically with respect to future OEM upgrades etc.Is weblogic clustering supported for OEM implementation?

My reply:

Thanks for your kind words. RAC is optional. Even the load balancer is optional. The feed from the agents also goes to the load balancer on a different port and it is routed to the available management server. In normal case, this is ok. If there is a failure, that is where the concept of the shared loader directory is used - so other management servers can be used to pick up the load. This concept is explained in the advanced EM manual. You should be able to use ACFS for the shared loader directory, however it is not certified or supported for use for this purpose. See the manual for the additional steps to set up the shared loader directory.

WebLogic Clustering will not be used by EM GC 11g Release 1.

Good Luck for the implementation. My tip is, keep it as simple as possible. My idea would be to first put this on a single database with Data Guard, and then upgrade to RAC after EM GC has settled down.

Regards,

Porus.

OTN Bulletin "popular author"

Just noticed this OTN Bulletin in which Justin Kestelyn (OTN Editor in Chief) mentions:

"Although he’s relatively new to the OTN editorial scene, Oracle ACE Director Porus Homi Havewala became a popular author in 2009. His articles about the optimal use of Oracle Enterprise Manager for enterprise management have proven to be crowd-pleasers."

Thanks Justin for calling me a popular author, and thank you my readers for making me one!

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/10-mar/o20bulletin-088115.html

New article on OTN: Overview of EM Packs

A new article of mine has been published on the OTN in December 2010:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/oem-packs-overview-195704.html

Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Packs

Regards,

Porus.

New EM Provisioning Article published on Oracle Technical Network

Dear Friends,

Happy Deepavali (Indian Festival of Lights).

I am pleased to announce that a new article of mine has been published on the Oracle Technical Network in November 2010:

Manage Mass Provisioning Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/mass-provisioning-177500.html

Learn how to provision literally hundreds or even thousands of systems using the mass provisioning techniques described here. The Deployment Procedures supplied by Oracle for provisioning, really make it a simple process.

Regards,

Porus.

New Links to my OTN articles on EM

The Oracle Technical Network (OTN) recently upgraded its site and in the process there are new links to my articles that have been published on the OTN site in the past few years. Here are the new links, please use these from now on:

My Published Oracle White Paper
Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

My Published Articles on The Oracle Technology Network (OTN):

Using Grid Control with Filer Snapshotting

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Architecture for Very Large Sites

Oracle RMAN Backups: Pushing the "Easy" Button

Patch a Thousand Databases, Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

Easy Disaster Proof Production with Grid Control

Using Oracle GoldenGate for Real-Time Data Integration

Mask Your Secrets Using Oracle Enterprise Manager

New Article on Data Masking published on OTN

Friends, a new article I wrote on the Data Masking Pack of Enterprise Manager Grid Control has been published on August 2010 on the Oracle Technology Network. This is the article:

Mask Your Secrets Using Oracle Enterprise Manager

Please read and recommend to your friends. Thanks a lot.