Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center supports the following key features in the Exalogic machine environment:
Hardware lifecycle management
InfiniBand fabric views and Ethernet network view
Console access to launch the browser user interface for managing the storage appliance and the InfiniBand switches
Serial console access to the service processors of compute nodes, switches, and storage appliance
Integration with Oracle Services
Problem management for the storage appliance
Note:
The storage appliance has the ability to create service requests when it detects a problem condition. When the appliance is running in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center environment, Ops Center also detects the problem condition and creates an alert. You can use this feature of Ops Center to report all problems.
In addition, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center supports bare metal provisioning, discovery of hardware assets, patch automation, import of firmware images, creation policies, and firmware upgrade for the hardware components of an Exalogic machine.