Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4 is now available for download

Just to let you know, the new Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4 release is now available for download!

To download it, you can either visit the Oracle Enterprise Manager downloads page or visit the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

For more information about what’s in this release of Oracle Enterprise Manager, visit the following resources:

• Press Release:  Oracle Helps Customers Easily Move to Autonomous Cloud
• Blog:  Enterprise Manager CIS Benchmark Certification Eases Adoption of Secure Database Best Practices
• Blog:  What Customers and Partners are Saying about Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Video:  Oracle Enterprise Manager Delivers Next-Gen Automation
• Documentation, Release Notes and Installation/Upgrade instructions

Several third-parties also wrote about this release of Oracle Enterprise Manager.  Some of their articles are below:

• New Oracle Enterprise Manager release advances hybrid cloud (TechTarget)
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Updates Help Customers Easily Move to the Cloud (Database Trends and Applications)
• Oracle updates Enterprise Manager with a focus on hybrid deployments (ZDNet)
• Oracle Makes Managing Fleets of Databases Simpler (RTInsights)
• Oracle adds new features to Oracle Enterprise Manager (ITWeb Africa)

In addition to the features described in the links above (some of which will be fully-delivered via follow-on Bundle Patches to the 13.4 base release), this version of Oracle Enterprise Manager includes new stack uptakes of Oracle Middleware 12.2.1.3, Perl 5.28.1 and Java Development Kit (JDK) 8.  Also, as part of this release, the following Enterprise Manager Plug-Ins have been updated to 13.4.1.0.0 (you will see this listed in Enterprise Manager Self-Update).

• Enterprise Manager for Storage Management Framework
• Enterprise Manager for Systems Infrastructure
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Exadata
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Virtualization
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Virtual Infrastructure
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Cloud Application
• Enterprise Manager for Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Siebel
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Fusion Applications
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Consolidation Planning & Chargeback
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Database
• Enterprise Manager for Cloud Services Management
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Cloud Framework
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Big Data Appliance
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle ORAchk Health Checks
• Enterprise Manager for Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall

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Announcing Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4

Oracle Helps Customers Easily Move to Autonomous Cloud

New Oracle Enterprise Manager automates database migration and simplifies complex hybrid cloud environments

Read the complete Press Release

 

Enterprise Manager CIS Benchmark Certification Eases Adoption of Secure Database Best Practices

It only takes a single mistake for the “bad guys” to be able to exploit a misconfiguration and exfiltrate your data. Thanks to the Center for Internet Security, Oracle Database users can avoid such scenarios by following the best practices defined by CIS.  With the high rate of change in DevOps-oriented development teams and the profilferation of data across on-premise and cloud environments, database administrators now have an easy way to comply with these standards right within Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Read the complete article by Dan Koloski

Fall 2019 Update to Oracle Enterprise Manager App on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Get started using OEM 13c on OCI using the Oracle Enterprise Manager app in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The Cloud Marketplace image of EM13c now is based on the 13.3PG Bundle Patch release and installs on an Oracle Database 19.3c.

• The Enterprise Manager version deployed by the app is the 13.3PG Release with the latest Aug 2019 Bundle Patch for the OMS & Agent Platform.
• The Database version deployed by the app for the OMR is Oracle Database 19.3c.
• The Linux host leverages the latest OCI Linux image: OEL 7.7 – which includes a variety of security fixes.
• The included WebLogic for Oracle Enterprise Manager has been updated with the latest security patches.
• We’ve updated the Java Development Kit (JDK) to the latest JDK certified for Oracle Enterprise Manager (JDK build 1.7.0_231).
• We’ve included the latest Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostic Kit, which is EMDIAG Version 19.08.01.

Monitoring and Management When You Are Navigating On-Premises and the Cloud

Most companies manage IT resources in their data centers. Additionally, most companies are beginning to leverage the benefits of the cloud. Both, at the same time, which leads to new challenges. If you are experiencing any of the following, read on and learn how Oracle is making it easier to monitor and manage traditional as well as next generation IT environments.

In this blog post Moe Fardoost describes how both Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Oracle Managed Cloud (OMC) can be compared with one another and gives us his view on running them together and each of them separately.

 

Oracle Enterprise and Cloud Manageability Support for Multi-Cloud Environments

As customers roll out multi-cloud application environments, they will need to monitor and manage those applications across those multiple clouds.  Oracle customers who use Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) and/or Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) can take advantage of the appropriate capabilities offered by these solutions to work across their entire estate, regardless of which deployment model they leverage.

Checkout this Blog post by Dan Koloski, on monitoring Autonomous Database but also Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Using Chargeback in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Please be noted that 2 new Video’s have been added to the Oracle Learning Library on using Chargeback in Oracle Enterprise Manager:

The Dashboard for the Modern Database Fleet

Please checkout this Blog post on Enterprise Manager 13.3 updated Plugins 

“With this new update of Oracle Enterprise Manager, we have introduced support for Oracle Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud and other capabilities to enable our customers to monitor and manage their hybrid environments using the same tool they’ve been familiar with for years.”  — Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Oracle

Oracle Enterprise Manager Is Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Not sure if you noticed, but Dan Koloski wrote this note on Oracle’s OEM blog last March 22nd:

We’re excited to announce that Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c is now available as an app on Oracle Cloud Marketplace.  That means customers who are interested in trying EM without having to provision on-premises hardware have an easy path to start working with a fully-configured, updated EM instance with minimal installation effort.

Stay informed on Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Management Cloud

If you want to stay informed on Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Management Cloud, please check out Oracle’s blog on these products https://blogs.oracle.com/oem/

Apart from product information you will be informed on Webcasts brought to you by the Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Management Cloud development organization. We are presenting some of the best sessions from Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco in case you missed them.

Please check out the Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Management Cloud blogs for more information.