Finding an EM13.5 Release Update

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.

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Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 11 (13.5.0.11) is now available

EM 13.5.0.11 download available on My Oracle Support

Release Updates Details

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.

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Reducing alert fatigue with Event Compression Policies in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Proactive alerting of issues is important, but having too many alerts can be overwhelming. The latter can cause alert fatigue, and this is usually the result of not being able to correlate related alerts (or events) into a single issue that can be managed holistically.

Event Compression Policies in Enterprise Manager address this need. It automatically correlates and compresses related events into a single, actionable incident.  The overall result of compression is a smaller set of meaningful incidents that ITOps teams can manage. This feature is available in Enterprise Manager 13.5 Release Update 8 (RU8) and later versions.

Read the complete article by Ana Maria McCollum

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 8 (13.5.0.8) is now available

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 8 (13.5.0.8), RU8 for short, is now available for download from My Oracle Support > Patches & Updates.

Release Updates Details

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. Release Updates 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 Release Update as soon as possible.

Read the complete article by Daniela Hansell

Respond to and manage incidents using the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 Connector for Jira Service Management

Are you currently using Jira Service Management for incident management and are interested in integrating it with Oracle Enterprise Manager monitoring? Now you can use our Jira Service Management REST Ticketing Connector to integrate Jira with Enterprise Manager for incident response and management.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure scores 78 percent in 2021 Gartner Solution Scorecard for IaaS and PaaS, showing continued momentum

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has again demonstrated strong growth, introducing hundreds of services and features over the past year. With all the challenges of a global pandemic, our teams continued to deliver on our product vision, and I’m both amazed and sincerely grateful.

Gartner® analyzes major cloud infrastructure providers in three reports: The 2021 Gartner Solution Scorecards for Integrated infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), the 2021 Critical Capabilities for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS), and the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CIPS. I’m happy to share the following results:

• OCI scored 78% overall in 2021 Gartner Solution Scorecard for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IaaS+PaaS, from 62% in 2020.
• Oracle’s score for required criteria grew from 74% to 90%, including scores of 100% for Compute, Storage, Networking, and Software Infrastructure, such as Database as a Service and Functions offerings.
• OCI scored better in all criteria and use cases in the 2021 Critical Capabilities for CIPS.
• Finally, we grew in both “ability to execute” and “completeness in vision” in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CIPS.

Read the complete article by Clay Magouyrk

Available now: SQL Tuning Advisor for Oracle Cloud Databases

SQL Tuning for maximizing Oracle Database performance 

Tuning usually implies fixing performance problems. However, tuning should be part of the life cycle of an application—through the analysis, design, coding, production, and maintenance stages. 

An important facet of database system performance tuning is the tuning of SQL statements. SQL tuning involves three basic steps:

•    Identifying high load or top SQL statements that are responsible for a large share of the application workload and system resources, by reviewing past SQL execution history from the system.
•    Verifying that the execution plans produced by the query optimizer for the statements perform reasonably.
•    Implementing corrective actions to generate better execution plans for poorly performing SQL statements.

Read the complete article by Sriram Vrinda

Exadata Insights in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Insights

Exadata Insights features

The OCI Operations Insights service enables business executives, database, and DevOps personnel to make informed, and data-driven compute resource and performance management decisions. With Operations Insights, you have the following capabilities:

• Analyze resource usage of databases 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 enterprise-wide databases

With the introduction of Exadata Insights, you can now analyze the resource utilization of the Exadata systems and identify the spare capacity for new workloads. This feature is available for Exadata systems that are managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 RU01 and later.

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Automated Patching and Compliance to Improve Database Security

Learn best practices used by Fortune 500 companies to secure database estates while cutting manual effort for patching, provisioning, updates and compliance using Oracle Enterprise Manager pre-built automation. During this webcast, attendees will learn how to:

– Use automation to stay current with software updates for your database fleet

– Proactively patch and upgrade database environments to address critical security vulnerabilities

– Identify vulnerable assets, prioritize vulnerability regression, and remediation management

– Achieve CIS, STIG regulatory compliance and security business objectives for databases

How To Use Key Features of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Mobile Application

Guest author Bill Keicher,  Oracle Software Development Snr Manager, shares the latest features of Oracle Enterprise Manager Mobile, which are compatible with Oracle Enterprise Manager software 13.4 and later, including several marquee capabilities. In this blog, he will review how you can filter groups and incidents, execute host commands, manage federation, and compliance remotely.

Please read the complete articlehttps://blogs.oracle.com/observability/post/how-to-use-key-features-of-the-oracle-enterprise-manager-mobile-application