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Displaying CPU Graphs For Different Time Ranges in Enterprise Manager
This question was posted in Twitter from @matvarsh30, who asked, “How can I display CPU usage over different periods of time for databases in Enterprise Manager?” Everyone loves their trusty Top...
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Enterprise Manager 13c, “Webtier Could Not Be Started”
Let’s say you’re on call and you’re woke from a deep, delightful sleep from the pager, stating the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control isn’t available. You log into the host, check the status, it tells...
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Enterprise Manager 13c, System Broadcast
I thought this was kind of a cool feature- the ability to send a message to appear to specific or all users in the Cloud Control Console. I have to admit that I used to like a similar feature in...
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EM13c DBaaS, Part 2, Thin Clone Issues
I’ve been working on a test environment consisting of multiple containers in a really cool little setup. The folks that built it create the grand tours for Oracle and were hoping I’d really kick the...
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AWR Warehouse Fails on Upload- No New Snapshots
This issue can be seen in either EM12c or EM13c AWR Warehouse environments. It occurs when there is a outage on the AWR Warehouse and/or the source database that is to upload to it. The first...
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Gold Agent Image
The Gold Agent Image is going to simplify agent management in EM13c, something a lot of folks are going to appreciate. First step to using this new feature is to create a image to be used as your gold...
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EM13c- BI Publisher Reports
How much do you know about the big push to BI Publisher reports from Information Publisher reporting in Enterprise Manager 13c? Be honest now, Pete Sharman is watching…. I promise, there won’t be a...
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EM13c Proxy Setup, MOS and CSI Setup
The change in EM13c, is that it support multiple proxies, but you may still not know how to set up a proxy and then use it with your MOS credentials and then assign out your CSI’s to targets. Proxies...
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Enterprise Manager Support Files 101- The EMOMS files
Someone pinged me earlier today and said, “Do I even really need to know about logs in Enterprise Manager? I mean, it’s a GUI, (graphical user interface) so the logs should be unnecessary to the...
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Enterprise Manager Friday Tip- Management Packs and Annotations
Licensing can be a confusing topic for many, but additional stress can be felt for those that use tools that cover multiple products and features that can span more than one management pack. I’ve...
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Blue Medora’s Brian Williams Blogs About Custom Monitoring Templates
Monitoring templates are an essential feature to a basic Enterprise Manager environment, ensuring consistent monitoring across groups and target types. There’s an incredibly vast group of experts in...
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EM13c- Applying System Patches with the OMS Patcher
The OMS Patcher is a newer patching mechanism for the OMS specifically, (I know, the name kind of gave it away…) Although there are a number of similarities to Oracle’s infamous OPatch, I’ve been...
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Database Comparisons with AWR Warehouse- Part II, Comparison Period Report
There are two ways to compare one database to another in the AWR Warehouse. I covered the ADDM Comparison Report here and now we’ll go through the second one, which is much more involved and has us...
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Configuration Management Searches in EM13c
With the addition of the Configuration Management from OpsCenter to Enterprise Manager 13c, there are some additional features to ease the management of changes and drift in Enterprise Manager, but I’m...
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Changes to Configuration Management in EM13c
Change is difficult for technical folks. Our world is always moving at blinding speed, so if you start changing things that we don’t think need to be changed, even if you improve upon them, we’re not...
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EM13c Monitoring Non-Oracle Databases
This last week I presented at Great Lakes Oracle Conference, (GLOC16) and the discussion on monitoring of non-Oracle databases came up while we were on the topic of management packs, how to monitor...
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Options For Pre-EM13c Target Software and Non-Supported OS in EM13c
Per Oracle documentation, you’re able to upgrade from EM12c to EM13c, including the OMR, (Oracle Management Repository) to DB12c and the OMS, (Oracle Management Service) to EM13c, but leave the agent...
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Tools To Monitor and Work with Oracle on Azure
I’ve been studying for over a week for my certs. It really is a challenge for my ADHD brain, as I learn by interacting and using a product, not be reading about it and guess what? Most of what the...
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