Oracle EBS: Streamline Business and IT Ops with Logging Analytics

30/03/202330/03/2023Leave a comment

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is one of the most comprehensive suites of business applications used by organizations of all sizes and plays a critical role in daily business operations. As such, it’s important to ensure that EBS is functioning properly at all times from both technical and business perspectives.

Oracle introduced EBS discovery and automatic topology creation in OCI Logging Analytics last year. It provided in-depth monitoring from an IT perspective. Customers loved it because it simplified setting up EBS monitoring and we have been releasing a steady stream of enhancements customers have been requesting for EBS. The number one request from customers was how to streamline business operations, and keep a tab on the functional health of critical business flows running on EBS.

Please read the full article by Kumarhttps://blogs.oracle.com/observability/post/oracle-ebs-streamline-with-logging-analytics Varun

Privileged Access Management (PAM) integration with Enterprise Manager

28/03/2023Leave a comment

With security a top focus of every enterprise, more organizations are employing Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. PAM solutions eliminate the need for hard-coded application credentials embedded in applications, scripts, or configuration files, and allow highly sensitive passwords to be centrally stored, logged, and managed within the Vault. This unique approach enables organizations to comply with internal and regulatory compliance requirements of periodic password replacement, and monitor and audit privileged access across all systems, databases, and applications. PAM solutions help provide secure privileged access to critical assets like database and hosts by centrally managing account passwords and provide access rules for both privileged and non-privileged accounts to control who can use those accounts to log on to your assets. For Enterprise Manager (EM) customers that use PAM providers like CyberArk, Centrify, HashiCorp, Oracle Key Vault, etc… we have an extensible EM credential framework that is integrated with them. The integration enables database management, database patching, and running host commands in accordance with security compliance policies.

This blog details EM integration with PAM providers so customers can use it to automate and further secure databases within their enterprise. Many features of EM are available with secure password access from PAM and protect against compromised credentials and breaches.

Read the complete article Sumesh Balakrishnan

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 13 (13.5.0.13) is now available

06/03/2023Leave a comment

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.13 download available on My Oracle Support

If you have been following the EM releases for a while, you are already familiar with Release Updates (RUs). RUs are the agile way to roll out new EM features and bug fixes quickly to customers, so they don’t have to wait for a major release. RUs are versioned with a trailing digit indicating the RU version. Note that RUs are cumulative, which means that the most recent RU includes functionality from all previous release updates. Our general recommendation is to apply the most current RU as soon as possible.

Access the download on My Oracle Support > Patches & Updates.

Read the complete article by Daniela Hansell

Oracle showcases innovations for multicloud observability and management

24/01/202330/01/2023Leave a comment

From Mughees Minhas (Senior Vice President of Product Management, Enterprise and Cloud Manageability)

I have some exciting news to share with you on our observability and management solutions. Please join me live January 25, 2023 at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET as I share an update on the most important innovations we have delivered recently. During this livestream event, I will demonstrate the new capabilities and answer your questions live with my team of architects, developers, and product managers.

We’ll provide examples on why Oracle should be considered as a strategic partner in your application, infrastructure management, and observability strategy.

Then, I will cover the key capabilities added to the platform, and finally what others are saying about our solution. I hope you enjoy this blog.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Insights now supports Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure

13/01/2023Leave a comment

Exadata Insights application within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Operations Insights service now has support for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure in the Oracle public cloud.

Exadata Insights provides a holistic view of all Exadata systems across your enterprise (on-premises and cloud) to help you optimize their capacity for your proactive planning and database consolidation use cases.

Key Exadata Insights capabilities

OCI Operations Insights enables business executives, database professionals, or those in IT Ops or DevOps roles to make informed, data-driven compute resource, and performance management decisions. Key Operations Insights Exadata Insights capabilities include:

Ability to analyze resource usage of databases, Exadata systems, and hosts across the enterprise
Forecast future demand for resources based on historical trends
Compare SQL performance across databases and identify common patterns
Identify SQL performance trends across databases enterprise-wide
Support of Exadata on-premises and the cloud

Read the complete article by Murtaza Husain

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 12 (13.5.0.12) is now available

13/01/2023Leave a comment

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.12 download available on My Oracle Support

Release Updates (RUs) are the agile way to roll out new EM features and bug fixes quickly to customers, so they don’t have to wait for a major release. RUs are versioned with a trailing digit indicating the RU version. Note that RUs are cumulative, which means that the most recent RU includes functionality from all previous release updates. Our general recommendation is to apply the most current RU as soon as possible.

Access the download on My Oracle Support > Patches & Updates.

Read the complete article by Daniela Hansell

Finding an EM13.5 Release Update

15/12/202215/12/2022Leave a comment

I understand from several visitors to my blog, that they do appreciate the announcements of new EM Release Updates, but are struggling in actually finding these on My Oracle Support.

Navigate and connect to https://support.oracle.com

Now navigate to the Pachtes & Updates tab

Select Enterprise Manager Base Platform as product and open the Release list and select Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.0.0 and Enterprise Manager Agent 13.5.0.0.0

Press [Search]

Voila…

Now select one of the patches and select [Download]

[Download]

Now select the link and the download will be activated.

Host Monitoring just got easier in Stack Monitoring

15/12/2022Leave a comment

Last September, we introduced support for host observability with Stack Monitoring. Stack Monitoring focuses on the discovery and monitoring of applications and application stack technologies such as Oracle Database, WebLogic Server, and E-Business Suite. With host monitoring, operations teams get more complete visibility into the application tech stack, enabling them to correlate possible application performance degradation with status or resource utilization issues of the underlying on-premises hosts or OCI compute instances on which their applications are running.

Read the complete article by Ana McCollum