OEM GC 11.1 SPARC Solaris available for download

As of today, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11.1 is available for SPARC  Solaris.

You can download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oem/index.html

Filed under: Grid Control 11.1, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c

Upgrading Agent 10.2.0.5 to 11.1 as easy as 1,2,3…

After the upgrade of OMS 10.2.0.5 to 11.1 in my test environment, I started upgrading some of the remote agents.

OEM GC 11.1 includes an Upgrade Agent feature that allows you to upgrade the 10.2.0.5 Agent to 11.1 on multiple nodes at once.

Check out this document to see what I did and how easy it is.

Upgrading Agents OEM Grid Control 11.1

Filed under: Agents, Grid Control 11.1, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c, Upgrade

Successfully upgraded OEM GC 10.2.0.5 to 11.1

Someone on the OTN EM forum noticed that the software was available on http://delivery.oracle.com on April 10th

So I started to download the software from http://delivery.oracle.com

You can read about the upgrade I did right here

Upgrading OEM GC 10.2.0.5 to 11.1 – Publish

Filed under: Grid Control 11.1, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c, Upgrade

New Recommended Bundle Patch (APR 2010) – 9405592 for Patch Automation on EM 10.2.0.5

This one I received from Oracle today.

New Recommended Bundle Patch 9405592 is available for download from My Oracle Support now. This patch primarily enhances the Patching functionality offered by Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

This patch is  cumulative and is a superset of the previously released bundles # 9132461, #8992470, and #8653501 that were released previously, and
therefore, includes all the features that were introduced as part of those Recommended Bundle Patches.

For more information, refer to Comprehensive Overview of Recommended Bundle Patch 9405592 under
support note – OMS and Agent Patches required for setting up Provisioning, Patching and Cloning in 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.5 GC [ID 427577.1]

FAQ:
#1 If I had applied the previous recommended patches, do I need to rollback before applying this?
Yes, if you had applied any of the patches (# 9132461, #8992470 and #8653501) you would need to rollback the patch and apply this.
For rollback instructions, refer to the patch README from the support note 427577.1

#2 I recently applied the patch 9132461, do I still need the new patch?
The new patch contains additional bug fixes.  (For more info see, Comprehensive Overview of Recommended Bundle Patch 9405592)
- Augmented Verification and Support for Oracle Database 9i Release 2 (9.2.0.8) and Oracle  Databases on Microsoft Windows Platform
- Bug fixes resolving issues with patching CPUs on Databases running on Windows platforms.
– Key Bug fixes identified at the various customers
Oracle strongly recommends you to apply the latest patch to make sure your do not encounter these issues and you are at the current patch levels for faster issue resolution through support

#3 Can I apply this patch on top of PSU3 for Enterprise Manager ?
Yes, this patch does NOT conflict with PSU3 and can be applied over it.

#4 Is there any known conflicts?
If you had applied the patch 8573971, it would conflict with this patch(9405592). You would need to rollback the patch 8573971 and apply this Bundle.
Apply the overlay patch – 9583322 to get the fixes of the rolled back patch 8573971. Note: The overlay patch is currently unavailable, it will be made available in few days.

Filed under: Announcements, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c, Patching

Link to Documentation OEM GC 11.1 – withdrawn

Apparently, Oracle did not like the documentation of OEM GC 11.1 being published before the official Announcement Day April 22nd.

The link to the documentation of OEM GC 11.1 is not working at this moment.

I am afraid we have to wait for April the 22nd.

Filed under: Announcements, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c

Installing OEM GC 10.2.0.5 – Software only

I still notice that people are having difficulties installing OEM 10.2.0.5

I have described the installation of 10.2.0.5 – Software Only method.

Installing OEM GC 10.2.0.5 – Software Only

Filed under: Installation, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c

OEM Grid Control 11.1 Available for Linux

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11.1 is now available for Linux on:

http://edelivery.oracle.com

Filed under: Announcements, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c

New Features In Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1

I guess Oracle was not happy that this was communicated before April 22nd. The link now is withdrawn!

Sorry Guys, we need to wait again until April 22nd

New Features In Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1 can be found over here:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11857_01/em.111/e11982/whats_new.htm#CHDCIDIG

Filed under: Announcements, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c

OEM GC 11.1 – Documentation available

I guess Oracle was not happy that this was communicated before April 22nd. The link now is withdrawn!

Sorry Guys, we need to wait agina until April 22nd

Hello guys, I just noticed that the documentation for OEM GC 11.1 is available!

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11857_01/index.htm

Did not find the software yet….

Regards
Rob

Filed under: Announcements, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c

New Book “Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Handbook”

This week a new book “Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Handbook” was released.

http://astore.amazon.com/oraclebooks-20/detail/0071634223

I met one of the authors, Werner de Gruyter during a project I did at the Rabobank – Netherlands and can say that he is one brilliant mind and really knows a lot about the OEM GC Internals. I ordered the book myself and can’t wait reading it.

Authors:

Werner De Gruyter works at Oracle helping critical accounts with their roll-out and deployment of Grid Control.

Matthew Hart is the coauthor of Oracle 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and Data Guard and Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup and Recovery.

Daniel Nguyen has more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, including at Oracle Corporation.

Filed under: Announcements, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 - 11g - 12c