Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook

324 Pages·2013·18.15 MB·English

by  Dhananjay Papde

Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c
Administration
Cookbook
Over 50 practical recipes to install, configure, and monitor
your Oracle setup using Oracle Enterprise Manager
Dhananjay Papde
Tushar Nath
Vipul Patel
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
Administration Cookbook
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Credits
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Dhananjay Papde Leena Purkait
Tushar Nath
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Reviewers
Indexer
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Monica Ajmera Mehta
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Bobby Pannapara
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Foreword
When I first became aware of Dhananjay Papde's intent to author a book on Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c, I sent him a congratulatory note. This is an important subject area, and I felt a
special need to pass on my best wishes.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is Oracle's integrated enterprise IT management product to
manage an organization's entire IT infrastructure, from applications to Disk IT management,
from a single console. With an increasing number of databases across the organization,
significance of Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool for effectively managing and optimizing
resources is immense. This book has a very good style; on one hand, it has all the contents
for a patient learner and on the other hand, for an impatient "go-getter" there are ready
"recipes" in hand to get started on specific tasks.
This book uncovers various installation options—with simple configuration and with advanced
options. It also covers various upgrade options. This book includes recipes on monitoring the
infrastructure using the "Action Session History Analytics" and "Real Time ADDM" monitoring
report. There are recipes for creating and cloning databases and creating templates.
The key differentiator for this book is it covers the integration of Oracle Fusion Middleware
Data Integration products such as Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle
Business Intelligence Publisher, and Oracle WebLogic using OEM 12c. Last but not the least,
the book covers recipes on Incident and Problem Management using iPhone or iPad.
In a nutshell, this is an excellent book that can be utilized to learn the usage of OEM 12c, as
well as to get specific "tips" through various "recipes", and is a must read book!
Shashank Patwardhan
Head of Application Management Services, Europe
TechMahindra Limited
About the Authors
Dhananjay Papde has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, out of which he has
worked for over 10 years in UK. He is an experienced Oracle DBA and an Oracle eBusiness Suite
Applications DBA, and has experience in Oracle Fusion Middleware Data Integration products
such as Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Business Intelligence, and Oracle Data Integrator. He also
has strong experience in project and program management. He is a regular speaker at UK
Oracle User Group and also at Oracle events/forums.
Currently, he is based in UK and works as an IT Principal Consultant/IT Operations Head
for TechMahindra Ltd. He has worked as a Principal Consultant, Senior Manager, Oracle
Production DBA, Oracle Applications DBA, Systems Administrator, and Technical Project
Manager with Oracle Corporation, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Mastech Corporation.
Dhananjay has won the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award presented at Oracle
Open World 2011 in the US. He is an Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Certified Expert,
PMP, and MSP.
Dhananjay enjoys travelling around the world, watching cricket, and has recently started loving
to play a bit of piano.
You can get in touch with Dhananjay at [email protected]. You can also visit his blog at
http://dhananjaypapde.blogspot.co.uk/.
I would like to thank my parents, wife, and my daughters for their love and
enormous support. Without their understanding, this book would not have
been possible.

I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for their help and support,
especially James Keane, Leena Purkait, Mayur Hule and Kirti Pujari. It has
been a year long process with a lot of work, but we are very happy with the
result we have achieved! Also many thanks to my employer, TechMahindra,
and all my colleagues and managers for their continued support.

I hope you like this book as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Tushar Nath is working as Senior Database Administrator in TechMahindra Ltd. ,
managing large scale mission critical production database and Fusion Middleware estate.
Tushar has over 11 years of IT experience in administration of Oracle Database, Oracle
Enterprise Manager and Fusion Middleware products such as Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle
Goldengate, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Data Integrator, and Oracle Service Oriented
Architecture with Unix Administration duties. He likes end-to-end troubleshooting involving
Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware products. Tushar holds various Oracle
certifications such as Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation
Certified Expert (11g), Oracle WebLogic Server 10g System Administrator Certified Expert,
Oracle OCP DBA(11g) and Real Application Clusters Administrator Certified Expert (10g).
This is the first book I've co-authored. It appeared as an impossible mission
at the early stage of writing this book. Unconditional support provided by my
family transformed this impossible mission to a possible one at the end. I
would like to say a big thank you to my wife Chinmayi, for understanding and
motivating me throughout the process of writing, without which it would not
have been possible to complete this book.

I would also like to thank to my parents, my son, and all of my colleagues
from the bottom of my heart for their love and support.
Vipul Patel has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years, and in the past 12
years mainly in the Telecommunications industry. He started with a brief brush with Oracle 5
and Oracle Forms.
He has been involved with the complete software delivery lifecycle to the present day as
a DBA for a critical business application. The drive as an individual and philosopher is to
be a proactive manager, to capture problems early to prevent them from impacting the
system and the users of the system, and to stop them during testing cycles, to prevent the
performance issue from reaching production. He was involved in all aspects of management
of infrastructure, from commissioning to monitoring while in service, so he moved from the
early days of writing bespoke scripts to having a single GUI with OEM.
Vipul is one of the award winners of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award for 2011
presented at Oracle Open World 2011 in US. He is also a member of the Oracle Customer
Advisory Board for Data Integration Products. To relax and get away from one form of
technology to another, Vipul is an avid follower of F1 motor racing, spending weekends away
in a field in Silverstone.
About the Reviewers
Gokhan Atil is an independent consultant who has been working in the IT industry
since 2000. He worked as a Development and Production DBA, Trainer, and Software
Developer. He has a strong background in Linux and Solaris systems. He's an Oracle
Certified Professional (OCP) for Oracle Database 10g and 11g, and has hands-on experience
in Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i. He is an active member of the Oracle community who has written
and presented papers at various conferences. He's also a founding member of the Turkish
Oracle User Group (TROUG).
Gokhan Atil was honored with the Oracle ACE award in 2011. He has a blog on which
he shares his experience about Oracle since 2008. You can get in touch with Gokhan at
http://www.gokhanatil.com.
Bobby Pannapara is a Consultant specializing in Oracle Database and Java Middleware
technologies. His experience comes from integrations at various Telcos using Oracle Databases,
WebLogic, GoldenGate, Data Integrator, and OBIEE, with a focus on technical infrastructure,
server-side solutions, and installing, administering, and configuring the Oracle stack. In his spare
time he enjoys doing DIY, watching football, and spending time with his family.
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