2 Options and Packs

This chapter describes the separately licensed Oracle Database options, management packs, and other products you can purchase to enhance the capabilities of Oracle Database in specific application environments. This chapter contains the following sections:

You may not use the options, packs, or products described below without separately purchased licenses. The fact that these options, packs, or products may be included in product CDs or downloads or described in documentation that you receive does not authorize you to use them without purchasing appropriate licenses.

Oracle Database Options

All the Oracle Database options can be purchased with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is included with Oracle Database Standard Edition. You cannot purchase any options with Oracle Database Standard Edition One or Oracle Express Edition. The Personal Edition includes all options except Oracle RAC at no additional cost.

This section describes the following database options:

Oracle Active Data Guard

Oracle Active Data Guard increases performance, availability, data protection, and return on investment wherever Data Guard is used for real-time data protection and availability. An Oracle Active Data Guard standby database can be used to offload a primary database of reporting, ad-hoc queries, data extracts, and backups, making it a very effective way to insulate interactive users and critical business tasks on the production system from the overhead of long-running operations. Oracle Active Data Guard provides read-only access to a physical standby database while it is synchronized with a primary database, enabling minimal latency between reporting and production data. Unlike other replication methods, Active Data Guard is very simple to use, transparently supports all datatypes, and offers very high performance with complete read consistency at the reporting database. Oracle Active Data Guard automatically repairs physical corruption on either the primary or standby database, increasing availability and maintaining data protection at all times. Oracle Active Data Guard 12c reduces downtime for Oracle Database upgrades and other database maintenance while avoiding error-prone manual procedures. Oracle Active Data Guard 12c Far Sync enables zero data loss disaster protection (DR) across any distance without impacting database performance. Oracle Active Data Guard 12c also includes Global Data Services to extend the concepts of automated service failover and workload management to globally distributed systems, and Application Continuity to provide transparent failover of in-flight transactions in Data Guard configurations that do not use Oracle Real Application Cluster (Oracle RAC).

The Active Data Guard option contains the following features:

  • Physical Standby with Real-time Query

  • Fast Incremental Backup on Physical Standby

  • Automatic Block Repair

  • Active Data Guard Far Sync

  • Global Data Services

  • Real-Time Cascade

  • Application Continuity

  • Rolling Upgrade using Active Data Guard

If a physical standby database in a Data Guard configuration has any of the above features enabled, then the Active Data Guard option must be licensed for every such physical standby, and also for the primary database.

Oracle Advanced Analytics

Oracle Advanced Analytics empowers data and business analysts to extract knowledge, discover new insights and make predictions—working directly with large data volumes in the Oracle Database. Oracle Advanced Analytics provides a combination of powerful in-database algorithms and open source R algorithms. Analytic capabilities are accessible via SQL and R languages, and through the SQL Developer extension or open-source R clients. Together, these features enhance the database with a comprehensive range of analytical functionality for data mining, text mining and predictive analytics, summary and descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis and graphics, comparative statistics, correlations, univariate and multivariate statistics, and advanced numerical computations.

Oracle Advanced Analytics comprises the following features:

  • In-database data mining algorithms:

    • Model build (accessed via the DBMS_DATA_MINING package)

    • Data transformations (accessed via the DBMS_DATA_MINING_TRANSFORM package)

    • Model scoring (accessed via SQL Scoring functions)

    • Predictive Analytics (accessed via the DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALYTICS package)

  • Oracle R Enterprise (integration with open-source R)

    • The Oracle R Enterprise R transparency layer: The transparency layer allows an R user to directly interact with database-resident data using R language constructs.

    • The Oracle R Enterprise statistics engine, a collection of statistical functions and procedures.

    • Embedded R: ORE can launch multiple R servers while the database manages data flows to enable parallel R processes running independently.

    • All Oracle R Enterprise functionality is invoked using the ORE package.

Oracle Advanced Compression

Oracle Advanced Compression provides comprehensive data compression and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) capabilities for all types of data: structured/unstructured, backup, network, archive, and Data Guard Redo Transport traffic. To facilitate automated ILM, Heat Map and Automatic Data Optimization enable organizations to maintain system-generated data usage statistics, at the row and segment levels, and to set policies that implement data compression/movement automatically.

The Oracle Advanced Compression option contains the following features:

  • Advanced Row Compression

  • Advanced LOB Compression

  • Advanced LOB Deduplication

  • RMAN Backup Compression (RMAN DEFAULT COMPRESS does not require the Advanced Compression option)

  • Data Pump Data Compression (COMPRESSION=METADATA_ONLY does not require the Advanced Compression option)

  • Heat Map

  • Automatic Data Optimization

  • Data Guard Redo Transport Compression

  • Advanced Network Compression

  • Optimization for Flashback Data Archive History Tables

  • Storage Snapshot Optimization

  • Online Move Partition (to any compressed format)

  • Exadata Flash Cache Compression: This feature can be enabled only on Exadata storage servers, and all database processors that access the Exadata storage servers must be licensed for Oracle Advanced Compression.

  • Advanced Index Compression

  • Hybrid Columnar Compression Row-Level Locking (Requires Exadata, Supercluster, ZFS, or FS1 storage)

Oracle Advanced Security

Oracle Advanced Security helps you protect sensitive information and comply with various privacy and compliance regulations including breach notification laws and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) by enabling encryption inside the database that is transparent to applications and enabling redaction of sensitive data before it leaves the database.

Oracle Advanced Security provides two primary security features: Transparent Data Encryption and Data Redaction. Data Redaction is new in Oracle Advanced Security with the release of Oracle Database 12c and provides the ability to redact sensitive information such as credit card data and social security numbers before the information leaves the database and is displayed by applications. Transparent Data Encryption provides encryption of data stored in the database, exported from the database using DataPump, or disk-based backups using Oracle RMAN.

Oracle Advanced Security includes the following features:

  • Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for tablespaces and columns (including Oracle SecureFiles)

  • DataPump Export File encryption

  • RMAN backup encryption to disk

  • TDE master key storage in an Oracle Wallet or external Hardware Security Module

  • Data Redaction of sensitive data returned to applications

    • Full, Partial, Regular Expression, and Random techniques

Network encryption (native network encryption and SSL/TLS) and strong authentication services (Kerberos, PKI, and RADIUS) are no longer part of Oracle Advanced Security and are available in all licensed editions of all supported releases of the Oracle database.

Oracle Advanced Security includes a restricted-use license for the following Oracle Enterprise Manager features:

  • Application Data Modeling (previously called Data Discovery and Modeling)

  • Sensitive Column Types and Sensitive Data Discovery

  • Application Accelerators

If you want to use the Oracle Enterprise Manager features listed above not solely for the purposes of Oracle Advanced Security, then you must purchase a full-use license for Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.

Oracle Database In-Memory

Oracle Database In-Memory allows any existing Oracle Database-compatible application to automatically and transparently take advantage of columnar in-memory processing, without additional programming or application changes.

Oracle Database In-Memory includes the following features:

  • In-Memory Column Store

  • Fault Tolerant In-Memory Column Store (Requires Exadata, Supercluster, or Database Appliance)

  • In-Memory Aggregation

Note:

The Oracle Database In-Memory option is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2).

Oracle Database Vault

Oracle Database Vault lets you control who, when, and where the database and application data can be accessed—helping protect your business against the most common security threats that target privileged user accounts or attempt to bypass applications. Enforcing separation of duties, even among administrators, Oracle Database Vault additionally serves as a powerful preventive control to help comply with today's stringent compliance and privacy requirements.

Oracle Database Vault option includes the following features:

  • Realms

  • Mandatory Realms

  • Command Rules

  • Privilege Analysis

Oracle Database Vault includes a restricted-use license for the following Oracle Enterprise Management features:

  • Application Data Modeling (previously called Data Discovery and Modeling)

  • Sensitive Column Types and Sensitive Data Discovery

  • Application Accelerators

If you want to use the Oracle Enterprise Management features listed above not solely for the purposes of Oracle Database Vault, then you must purchase a full-use license for Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.

Oracle Label Security

Oracle Label Security provides sophisticated and flexible security based on row labels for fine-grained access control. This option employs labeling concepts used by government, defense, and commercial organizations to protect sensitive information and provide data separation. Oracle Identity Management Directory Services Plus, can be licensed separately to enable centralized management of Oracle Label Security policies and authorizations.

The Oracle Label Security option includes the following features:

  • Label based access control (LBAC)

  • Multi-level security (MLS)

  • Label factors for Database Vault (Confidential, Sensitive)

  • User label authorizations (Confidential, Sensitive: PII)

  • Data labels (Sensitive: PII)

Oracle Label Security includes a restricted-use license for the following Oracle Enterprise Manager features:

  • Application Data Modeling (previously called Data Discovery and Modeling)

  • Sensitive Column Types and Sensitive Data Discovery

  • Application Accelerators

If you want to use the Oracle Enterprise Manager features listed above not solely for the purposes of Oracle Label Security, then you must purchase a full-use license for Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.

Oracle Multitenant

Multitenant is the capability that enables an Oracle database to function as a multitenant container database (CDB) that includes one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a portable collection of schemas, schema objects, and nonschema objects that appears to an Oracle client as a non-CDB. All Oracle databases before Oracle Database 12c were non-CDBs. Multitenant brings these benefits:

  • Very fast provisioning of a new database or of a copy of an existing database. Very fast redeployment, by unplug and plug, of an existing database to a new platform.

  • Patch or upgrade the Oracle Database version for many databases quickly, and for the human cost of doing it once. Patch or upgrade by unplugging a PDB and plugging it into a different CDB at a later version.

  • Consolidate many more PDBs onto a single platform than you can monolithic databases.

Oracle Multitenant includes the following feature:

  • The ability to have up to 252 PDBs per multitenant container database

The multitenant architecture with one user-created pluggable database (single tenant) is available in all editions without the Multitenant Option.

Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)

The OLAP option to Oracle Database is a full-featured OLAP server embedded in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle OLAP cube datatypes improve business intelligence tools and applications by providing excellent query performance, rich analysis, and fast incremental updates of data sets. OLAP cubes are easily queried by SQL-based business intelligence tools through cube-organized materialized views and OLAP cube views. Cube-organized materialized views provide an alternative summary management solution to table-based materialized views. As with a table-based materialized view, an OLAP cube is accessed by SQL-based tools transparently using the automatic SQL query rewrite feature of the materialized views. SQL-based tools can access both summary data and rich analytic content directly through OLAP cube views. Multidimensional OLAP tools can provides a full-dimensional OLAP experience using the Oracle OLAP multidimensional API to cubes. A single OLAP cube can service each of these types of applications.

The Oracle OLAP option includes the following features:

  • OLAP Cube Definition, Storage, and Querying

  • OLAP API and Metadata

  • OLAP Cube Materialized Views

  • Analytic Workspaces

  • SQL Access to OLAP Cubes

Oracle Partitioning

Oracle Partitioning enhances the data management environment for OLTP, data mart, data warehouse, and content management applications by adding significant manageability, availability, and performance capabilities to large underlying database tables and indexes. Oracle Partitioning lets you store large tables as individually managed smaller pieces, while retaining a single application-level view of the data.

The Oracle Partitioning option includes the following features:

  • Table Partitions and Subpartitions

  • Global and Local Index Partitions and Subpartitions

  • Sharded Queues

  • Zone Maps (Available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2); Requires Exadata or Supercluster)

Oracle RAC One Node

Oracle RAC One Node is the one-node version of Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). It enables customers to standardize on a single deployment model for all their database needs. Oracle RAC One Node makes the database highly available in the presence of computer hardware failures, software failures, or planned software maintenance events. In the event of failures, the database instance is restarted on an available server in the cluster and the client connections are moved to the new instance. Oracle RAC One Node can be online upgraded to full Oracle RAC (RAC license required) in order to scale to multiple servers.

Oracle RAC One Node includes the following features:

  • Database Cold Failover to another node in the cluster in case of server or instance failure

  • Online migration of the database instance to another server

  • Support for online rolling upgrades of the database, grid infrastructure, and OS homes

  • Online upgrade to Oracle Real Application Clusters

  • Policy-managed Server Pools

  • Quality of Service Management

  • Application Continuity

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is a database computing environment that harnesses the processing power of multiple interconnected computers using clustering technology. Oracle RAC enables multiple servers to mount a single databases, providing unlimited scalability and high availability for all applications. Oracle RAC makes the database highly available in the presence of computer hardware or software failure: in the event any computer in the cluster fails, the database continues to provide service on the surviving computers in the cluster. Oracle RAC provides scalable performance: as demand for database throughput grows, additional computers can be added to the database cluster with no downtime. Oracle RAC also supports a single-system image for ease of management.

Oracle Real Application Clusters includes the following features:

  • All the capabilities of Oracle RAC One Node

    • With the exception of "Online migration of the database instance to another server"

  • Real Application Clusters scaling to multiple servers

  • Connection Load Balancing

  • Fast Connection Failover

  • Hot Cluster Failover

Oracle Real Application Testing

The Oracle Real Application Testing option comprises a suite of features that help protect database applications from undesirable impact of routine changes such as hardware/software upgrades, configuration changes, platform migrations, and so forth. These features enable comprehensive testing of real-world applications so that any issues resulting from system changes are fully identified and addressed during testing, and unexpected problems encountered when a change is finally made in the production systems are minimized.

The Oracle Real Application Testing option includes the following features:

  • Database Replay

  • SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA)

  • Database Consolidation Workbench

Oracle Real Application Testing functionality can be accessed by Enterprise Manager as well as through the database server command-line APIs. The use of either interface requires an Oracle Real Application Testing option license.

In addition, the use of the following reports requires a license of Oracle Diagnostics Pack. For Database Consolidation Workbench see Database Consolidation Workbench.

  • Capture and Replay ASH Analytics Reports

  • Compare Period ADDM Report

  • Replay Compare Period Report

Command-Line APIs

The Database Replay feature can also be accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces:

  • DBMS_WORKLOAD_CAPTURE package is part of the Oracle Real Application Testing option

  • DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPLAY package is part of the Oracle Real Application Testing option

    The use of the DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPLAY.COMPARE_PERIOD_REPORT() function also requires a license of Oracle Diagnostics Pack.

The SQL Performance Analyzer feature can also be accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces:

  • DBMS_SQLPA package is part of Oracle Real Application Testing option

Database Consolidation Workbench

Database Consolidation Workbench introduced in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c is part of the Real Application Testing option. It provides a data-driven and systematic approach to consolidation by eliminating guess work and human errors. Database Consolidation Workbench has three key capabilities, consolidation planning, database migration, and performance validation.

Prerequisites

  • Consolidation Planning

    Use of the consolidation planning feature of Database Consolidation Workbench requires an Oracle Database Diagnostics Pack license.

  • Database Migration

    Use of the database migration feature of Database Consolidation Workbench requires a Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database license.

Licensed Links

The following are the licensed pages and links for the Database Consolidation Workbench within Oracle Enterprise Manager:

Database Consolidation Workbench page

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Consolidation, then select Database Consolidation Workbench.

  • On the database target home page, select the Administration menu, then select Database Consolidation Workbench.

  • All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Consolidation Workbench.

The Oracle Real Application Testing license is required on both capture and replay systems for Database Replay and is charged by the total number of CPUs on those systems.

Oracle Spatial and Graph

The Oracle Spatial and Graph option includes advanced features for spatial data and analysis and for physical, network, and social graph applications.

Spatial Features

The geospatial data features support complex geographic information systems (GIS) applications, enterprise applications, and location-based services applications, augmenting the Oracle Database Locator feature, which provides storage, analysis, and indexing of location data accessible through SQL and standard programming languages.

These advanced spatial features include:

  • SPATIAL_VECTOR_ACCELERATION to significantly improve 2D and 3D spatial vector query performance

  • Classes in packages other than the oracle.spatial.geometry (sdoapi.jar) and oracle.spatial.util (sdoutil.jar) packages of the Spatial Java API

  • Linear Referencing System (LRS) support

  • GeoRaster Storage, Indexing, and Querying

  • Network Data Model

  • Topology Data Model

  • Spatial analysis and mining subprograms (SDO_SAM package)

  • Spatial Routing Engine

  • Geocoding Engine

  • Spatial Web Services including OpenLS support, including support for geocoding, mapping, business directory (Yellow Pages), and driving directions (routing) services, Web feature service (WFS) support (SDO_WFS_PROCESS and SDO_WFS_LOCK packages), and Catalog services for the Web (CSW) support (SDO_CSW_PROCESS package)

  • 3-D Geometry, Surface, Triangulated irregular network (TIN), and Point Cloud Storage, Indexing, and Querying

Note:

Oracle Locator, a feature of Oracle Database 12c, includes the spatial vector geometry type, spatial indexing and operators, and a limited set of spatial functions. The list of functions included in Locator can be found in Appendix B of Oracle Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide.

Graph Features

The graph database features include two graph models:

  • A network data model (NDM) graph to model and analyze link-node graphs to represent physical and logical networks used in transportation, utilities and telco

  • A semantic RDF graph to model and analyze data represented as triples for social network, linked data, and other semantic applications

The Network Data Model graph features include:

  • A storage model to represent graphs and networks in link and node tables

  • Java APIs to perform analysis in memory

  • Numerous graph analysis functions including shortest path, within cost, nearest neighbors, traveling salesman, spanning tree, and more

  • Explicit storage and connectivity of the graph with link- and node-level attributes

  • Support for directed and undirected graphs with or without cost

The RDF Semantic Graph features include:

  • Graph relationships represented as triples in compressed, partitioned tables

  • Indexing, querying, and ontology management

  • RDFS, OWL, and user-defined inferencing (parallel, batch, and incremental)

  • Support for SPARQL 1.1 and mixed SPARQL and SQL queries

  • Enhanced Open Source Tools including Jena, Sesame, Joseki Web Services

Note:

The RDF Semantic Graph features require the Oracle Partitioning option.

Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache

Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache enables you to improve application transaction response time by caching a performance critical subset of tables from an Oracle Database to the application tier. Applications perform read/write operations on the cache tables using standard SQL with automatic persistence, transactional consistency, and data synchronization with the Oracle database.

Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache includes the following features:

  • Data access using PL/SQL, JDBC, ODBC, ttClasses, OCI, and Pro*C/C++ interfaces

  • Transaction Log API (XLA) for change notification

  • Multi-node Cache Grid

  • Automatic data synchronization with the Oracle database

  • Transactional replication between the in-memory cache databases

  • Automated failure detection and database failovers

  • TimesTen Extension for Oracle SQL Developer

  • TimesTen Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Management Packs

The sections that follow describe the Oracle management packs. The management packs can be purchased only with Enterprise Edition. The features in these packs are accessible through Oracle Enterprise Manager, Desktop Widgets, and APIs provided with Oracle Database software.

This section describes the following management packs:

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database helps to set up a Database Cloud and operate the Database as a Service model.

Features

Some of the features provided by this pack are:

  • Database-as-a-Service comprising self-service database provisioning on physical or virtual infrastructure

  • DBaaS Rapid Start Kit allowing users to set up and configure Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c in under a minute.

  • Pluggable Database-as-a-Service (PDBaaS) providing self-service provisioning on a pool of multitenant container databases (CDBs).

  • Support shared server, shared cluster, and shared database (Schema-as-a-Service) deployment models

  • Virtual assembly provisioning. For example, if there is an assembly topology of three VMs (two WebLogic Server-managed servers and one database), you will need both packs to cover the respective tiers.

  • Snap Clone, a fast, storage efficient way of cloning Oracle databases

  • Full clones using RMAN backups

  • Role based access and resource control through quotas and retirement policies

  • Schedule- and performance-based resource management policies

  • Metering and chargeback based on fixed cost, utilization metrics and configuration parameters of the database

  • Programmatic access to the Self-Service Portal

  • Blueprint driven orchestration of cloud operations

Prerequisites

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database requires Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.

Licensed Links

Starting on the Enterprise Summary home page, the following licensed pages and links of this pack apply:

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Infrastructure Home.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Infrastructure Request Dashboard.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Infrastructure Policies.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Middleware and Database Home.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Middleware and Database Request Dashboard.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Self Service Portal.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Service Instances.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Chargeback.

  • Click the Enterprise menu. Select Provisioning and Patching, then Database Provisioning. In the Database Provisioning page, in the Related Links section of the left menu pane, click Provision Pluggable Databases. Next, from the PDB Operations section, select Create New Pluggable Databases. Click Launch, and from Pluggable Database Creation Options, select Clone an Existing PDB -> Snap Clone.

  • On the Multitenant container database's home page, from the Oracle Database menu, select Provisioning, then Provision Pluggable Database. Next, from the PDB Operations section, select Create New Pluggable Databases. Click Launch, and from Pluggable Database Creation Options, select Clone an Existing PDB -> Snap Clone.

  • Click the Setup menu. Select Cloud. Select Infrastructure.

  • Click the Setup menu. Select Cloud. Select Database.

  • Click the Setup menu. Select Provisioning and Patching, then Storage Registration.

Licensed APIs

API Description
Assembly Operations Any POST/GET/PUT/DELETE on /em/cloud/iaas URI space for Resources Assembly Template and Assembly Instance
DBaaS Operations Any POST/GET/PUT/DELETE on /em/cloud/dbaas URI space
DBaaS Setup Operations Any POST/GET/PUT/DELETE on /em/websvcs/restful/extws/cloudservices/admin/cfw/v1 URI space.

Licensed Command Line Interface Verbs

The following Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) verbs are licensed as part of Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database. These verbs operate on a database pool.

  • add_pool_members

  • create_charge_item

  • create_dbaas_quota

  • create_dbprofile

  • create_pool

  • create_service_template

  • delete_charge_item

  • delete_dbaas_quota

  • delete_pool

  • delete_service_template

  • get_dbaas_quota

  • get_dbaas_request_settings

  • get_metering_data

  • get_pool_capacity_data

  • get_pool_capacity_summary_data

  • get_pool_constraints

  • get_pool_criteria

  • get_pool_detail

  • get_pool_instance_data

  • get_pool_target_type

  • get_pools

  • get_service_template

  • list_charge_item_candidates

  • remove_pool_members

  • update_dbaas_quota

  • update_dbaas_request_settings

  • update_pool

Licensed Views and Tables

The following objects within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database:

  • Tables starting with EMCT_CBA

  • Views starting with EMCT$CBA

  • The views:

    • GP_EMCT_CBA_TARGET_CHARGE

    • MGMT$EMCT_CBA_CHARGE_DAILY

    • MGMT$EMCT_CBA_CHARGE_HOURLY

Licensed Chargeback Reports

The following BI Publisher reports are licensed under Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Middleware. Also, any report created using the "create-like" feature of BI publisher referring the following reports, falls under this license.

  • Charge Trend Report

  • Charge Summary Report

  • Usage Trend Report

  • Usage Summary Report

Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack

Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack facilitates the creation of production like data for non-production environments by replacing production data with fictitious yet realistic values. Generation of the fictitious data can be performed during export or on a separate staging server. The Subsetting functionality provides the ability to subset a database by deleting or extraction a portion of data. Subsetting can optionally be used in line with masking functionality.

Features

Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack includes the following components and features:

  • Application Data Modeling

  • Data Masking Formats Library

  • Data Masking Definitions

  • Data Subsetting Definitions

  • Application Data Modeling, Data Masking and Subsetting Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) verbs

  • Application Data Modeling accelerator for select versions of Oracle E-Business Suite

  • Application Data Modeling accelerator for select versions of Oracle Fusion Applications

  • Data Masking templates for select versions of Oracle Fusion Applications

  • Data Masking templates for select versions of Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack includes the following restricted-use licenses:

  • Database Gateway for APPC

  • Database Gateway for DRDA

  • Database Gateway for Informix

  • Database Gateway for SQLServer

  • Database Gateway for Sybase

  • Database Gateway for Teradata

If you want to use the Oracle Database Gateways listed above not solely for the purposes of Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack, then you must purchase full-use licenses for the Oracle Database Gateways. When using Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack for non-Oracle databases, the Oracle Database Gateways stage the data in a separately licensed Oracle Database. Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting functionality cannot be executed directly against the non-Oracle database.

Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack must be licensed for:

  1. The source database server, i.e., the databases from which the data originates.

  2. The staging database server on which masking and subsetting operations are executed.

Licensed Links

The following are the licensed pages and links for Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack within Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Licensed Page/Link How to Access
Application Data Modeling From the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Quality Management, then Application Data Modeling.

From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Security menu, then Application Data Modeling.

All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on these menus are licensed as part of the Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.

Data Masking Definitions From the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Quality Management, then Data Masking Definitions.

From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Security menu, then Data Masking Definitions.

All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on these menus are licensed as part of the Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.

Data Masking Formats From the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Quality Management, then Data Masking Formats.

All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on these menus are licensed as part of the Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.

Data Subset Definitions From the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Quality Management, then Data Subset Definitions.

From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Schema menu, then Data Subsetting.

All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on these menus are licensed as part of the Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack.


Note:

  1. Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack incorporates the previous Oracle Data Masking Pack, Oracle Test Data Management Pack, and Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack for non-Oracle Databases.

  2. Application Data Modeling was previously called Data Discovery and Modeling.

Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database

The Database Lifecycle Management Pack is a comprehensive solution that helps database, system, and application administrators automate the processes required to manage the Oracle Database Lifecycle. It eliminates manual and time consuming tasks related to discovery, initial provisioning, patching, configuration management, and ongoing change management. In addition, the Database Lifecycle Management pack provides compliance frameworks for reporting and management of industry and regulatory compliance standards.

The Database Lifecycle Management covers the entire lifecycle of the databases, including:

  • Discovery and Inventory tracking: the ability to discover your assets and track them.

  • Initial provisioning: the ability to rollout databases in minutes.

  • Ongoing Change Management: end-to-end management of patches, upgrades, schema and data changes.

  • Configuration Management: track inventory, configuration drift, and detailed configuration search.

  • Compliance Management: reporting and management of industry and regulatory compliance standards.

The Database Lifecycle Management pack is also a prerequisite for the Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database.

Features

The Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database includes the following features, which you can use after purchasing a license:

  • Change Activity Plans

  • Client system analyzer

  • Compliance

  • Configuration Collection Extensibility

  • Configuration Compare

  • Configuration History

  • Configuration Instance Browser

  • Configuration Save

  • Configuration Search

  • Configuration Topology

  • Copy Objects

  • Database Patching

  • Database Provisioning

  • Database Upgrade

  • Disaster Recovery via Site Guard

  • Enterprise Data Governance

  • File Synchronization

  • Notifications

  • Pluggable Database (PDB) Clone

  • PDB Create/Plug/Unplug (Multiple target operations or performed using a customized deployment procedure.)

  • PDB Migrate

  • RAC Scale Back

  • RAC Scale Out

  • Real-time configuration change detection

  • Real-time schema change detection

  • Schema and Data Comparisons

  • Schema and Data Synchronization

  • Schema Change Plans

  • Schema Comparisons

  • User Defined Deployment Procedures (UDDP)

Licensed Parameters

The init.ora parameter ENABLE_DDL_LOGGING is licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack when set to TRUE. When set to TRUE, the database reports schema changes in real time into the database alert log under the message group schema_ddl. The default setting is FALSE.

Licensed Links

The following Licensed Links, features and functions apply only to the Oracle Database target and the associated host an Oracle Database is deployed on. For management on non-Oracle Database targets, you must purchase the appropriate management pack.

The following are the licensed pages and links for the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:

Licensed Page/Link How to Access
Database Provisioning Procedures From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Procedure Library. All Procedures that Clone and Provision a Database are licensed with the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Database Provisioning. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Oracle Database menu, then Provisioning. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Database Upgrade From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Procedure Library. All Procedures that Upgrade a Database are licensed with the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Oracle Database menu, then Provisioning. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

User Defined Deployment Procedures (UDDP) From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Procedure Library. On the Provisioning Library page, from the list of actions, the Create New option is licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
RAC Scale Out and Scale Back From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Procedure Library. All Procedures that Extend or Scale a database or RAC are licensed with the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Database Provisioning. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

From the Oracle cluster database target home page, click the Oracle Database menu, then Provisioning. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Database Patching From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Procedure Library. All Procedures that patch a database, Clusterware or Real Application Clusters are licensed with the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
Offline Patching From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Setup menu, Provisioning and Patching, then Offline Patching. From the Online and Offline Setting tab, the Connection, Offline setting is licensed with the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
Configuration Instance Browser From the Enterprise Manager home page, click on Targets, Databases, and select a Database. From the database home page, click on Oracle Database, Configuration. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu, excluding Topology, are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

From the database home page, click on Oracle Database, Configuration. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu, excluding Topology, are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Configuration Search From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Configuration and Search. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
Configuration History From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Configuration and History. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
Configuration Compare From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Configuration and Compare. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
Configuration Save From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Configuration and Save. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
Configuration Topology From the Target Home Page, click on Oracle Database, Configuration, Topology. In the View Dropdown, Used By is licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

From the Target Home Page, click on Oracle Database, Configuration, Topology, Customization. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

  • From the Target Home Page, click on Oracle Database, Configuration, Topology. In the View drop-down, Used By is licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

  • From the Target Home Page, click on Oracle Database, Configuration, Topology, Customization. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Configuration Collection Extensibility From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Configuration and Custom. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.
File Synchronization When viewing comparison results differences as described in the Configuration Compare feature, select the configuration specification in the tree on the left. Select Enable File Synchronization. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.
Schema Comparison From the Enterprise Manager home page, click on Targets, Databases, and then select a Database. From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, unctions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Schema and Data Comparisons From the Enterprise Manager home page, click on Targets, Databases, and then select a Database. From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Schema and Data Synchronization From the Enterprise Manager home page, click on Targets, Databases, and then select a Database. From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Copy Objects From the Enterprise Manager home page, click on Targets, Databases, and then select a Database. From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Real-Time Schema Change Detection From the Enterprise Manager home page, click on Targets, Databases, and then select a Database. From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

If the Target Home Page is accessed directly or by other paths:

From the database home page, click on Schema, Change Management. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Real-time Configuration Change Detection and Compliance From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu and Compliance. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs associated with the Library, Results and Real-Time Observations pages are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack.

Licensed Reports

The following reports are part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database. All reports in each of these sections are licensed as part of this pack. To access the reports go to the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Reports, Information Publisher Reports or BI Publisher Enterprise Reports.

The following reporting areas, reports, and sub-reports under Information Publisher Reports are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack:

  • Compliance

  • Deployment and Configuration

  • Sample Host reports, Configuration Reports

  • Security

The following reporting areas, reports and sub-reports under BI Publisher Enterprise Reports are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack:

  • Compliance

  • Deployment and Configuration

  • Sample Host reports, Configuration Reports

  • Security

Additional Licensed Features

With the purchase of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database, you also are entitled to the features described in the following sections. These features are restricted to the Oracle Database targets in the Oracle Database Home and the Platform (hardware and operating system) for the CPUs you have licensed.

  • Application Configuration Console

  • The oplan Utility (The basic OPlan feature is free for everyone that has an Oracle Support contract. Use of OPlan metadata to drive orchestration logic from either Enterprise Manager or custom/third-party scripts is part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.)

  • Migrate to ASM

  • Self Update

Licensed Command Line Interface Verbs

The following Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) verbs are licensed as part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack:

  • associate_cs_targets

  • clone_database

  • config_compare

  • config_db_service_target

  • configure_log_archive_locations

  • confirm_instance

  • create_database

  • describe_instance

  • describe_procedure_input

  • disable_config_history

  • enable_config_history

  • export_compliance_group

  • export_compliance_standard_rule

  • export_facet

  • export_standard

  • fix_compliance_state

  • get_config_searches

  • get_config_templates

  • get_executions

  • get_instance_data

  • get_instance_status

  • get_instances

  • get_oms_config_property

  • get_procedure_types

  • get_procedure_xml

  • get_procedures

  • get_retry_argument

  • get_saved_configs

  • ignore_instance

  • import_compliance_object

  • list_oms_config_properties

  • remove_cs_target_association

  • reschedule_instance

  • resume_instance

  • run_config_search

  • save_procedure

  • set_config_history_retention_period

  • stop_instance

  • submit_procedure

  • suspend_instance

  • update_and_retry_step

  • update_procedure_input

  • upgrade_database

Licensed Repository Views

The following repository views are part of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:

  • Compliance Views

    • MGMT$CCC_ALL_OBS_BUNDLES

    • MGMT$CCC_ALL_OBSERVATIONS

    • MGMT$CCC_DIAG_ANALYTICS

    • MGMT$CCC_DIAG_QUEUEBACKLOG

    • MGMT$COMPLIANCE_STANDARD

    • MGMT$COMPLIANCE_STANDARD_GROUP

    • MGMT$COMPLIANCE_STANDARD_RULE

    • MGMT$COMPOSITE_CS_EVAL_SUMMARY

    • MGMT$CS_ASM_DISKGRP_SETTINGS

    • MGMT$CS_DB_CONTROL_FILE_COUNT

    • MGMT$CS_DB_INIT_PARAMS

    • MGMT$CS_DB_RBS_IN_SYSTEM

    • MGMT$CS_DB_REC_SEG_SETTINGS

    • MGMT$CS_DB_REC_TS_SETTINGS

    • MGMT$CS_DB_REC_USER_SETTINGS

    • MGMT$CS_DB_REDO_LOG_COUNT

    • MGMT$CS_DB_REDO_LOGS

    • MGMT$CS_DB_TABLESPACES

    • MGMT$CS_DB_TBSP_SEGSPACE_MGMT

    • MGMT$CS_EVAL_SUMMARY

    • MGMT$CS_FEATURE_USAGE

    • MGMT$CS_GROUP_EVAL_SUMMARY

    • MGMT$CS_GROUP_KEYWORD

    • MGMT$CS_HA_INFO

    • MGMT$CS_HIERARCHY

    • MGMT$CS_KEYWORD

    • MGMT$CS_RQS_HIERARCHY

    • MGMT$CS_RULE_ATTRS

    • MGMT$CS_RULE_EVAL_SUMMARY

    • MGMT$CS_RULEFOLDER

    • MGMT$CS_TARGET_ASSOC

    • MGMT$CS_TGT_ASSOC_TXF_REQ

    • MGMT$CSG_HIERARCHY

    • MGMT$CSG_SUBGROUP

    • MGMT$CSR_CURRENT_VIOLATION

    • MGMT$CSR_TARGET_ASSOC

    • MGMT$CSR_VIOLATION_CONTEXT

    • MGMT$CSRF_TARGET_ASSOC

    • MGMT$EM_CS_RULE_EVENT_ERROR

    • MGMT$EM_RULE_VIOL_CTXT_DEF

    • MGMT$ICS_TARGET_ASSOC

    • MGMT$REPO_RULE_CHK_DETAILS

    • MGMT$REPOSITORY_RULE_BIND_VARS

    • MGMT$REPOSITORY_RULE_PARAMS

    • MGMT$RULE_KEYWORD

  • Provisioning and Patching Views

    • EM$PROV_APPTYPES

    • EM$PROVAPP_METADATA

    • EM$PROVAPP_METADATA_VERSION

    • EM$PROVAPP_TAG_PROPERTIES

    • EM$PROVAPP_TAGS

    • MGMT$PA_RECOM_METRIC_SOURCE

  • Patching Views

    • GC$EM_PC_PLAN_PATCHES

    • GC$EM_PC_PLANS

    • GC$EM_PC_PLAN_TARGETS

    • GC_PC_EXECUTION_INSTANCES

    • GC_PC_PLAN_ANALYSIS_RS

    • GC_PC_PLAN_REMEDY

    • GC_PC_PLAN_REMEDY_DETAILS

    • GC_PC_PLAN_USERS

    • GC_PC_TARGETS

    • MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHES

    • MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHSETS

    • MGMT$ARU_FAMILY_PRODUCT_MAP

    • MGMT$ARU_LANGUAGES

    • MGMT$ARU_PATCH_RECOMMENDATIONS

    • MGMT$ARU_PLATFORMS

    • MGMT$ARU_PRODUCT_RELEASE_MAP

    • MGMT$ARU_PRODUCTS

    • MGMT$ARU_RELEASES

    • MGMT$ARU_TARGETS

    • MGMT$PA_AFFTED_HOST_GUID_OH

    • MGMT$PA_AFFTED_HOST_OH

    • MGMT$PA_AFFTED_TARGETS

    • MGMT$PA_FINAL_PATCH_LIST

    • MGMT$PA_TARGET_MAPPING

    • MGMT$PR_APPL_PATCHES_TO_OH

    • MGMT$PR_APPL_PATCHES_TO_OH_TGT

    • MGMT$PR_HOME_INFO

    • MGMT$PR_HOMES_AFFECTED_COUNT

    • MGMT$RECOM_METRIC_SOURCE

  • Configuration Views

    • GC$ECM_COMP_PROPERTIES

    • GC$ECM_CONFIG_SUMMARY

    • GC$ECM_CURR_CONFIG

    • GC$ECM_CURR_CONFIG_FLAT_MEMS

    • GC$ECM_CURR_CONFIG_SNAPSHOTS

    • GC$ECM_CURR_TARGET_SNAPSHOTS

    • GC$ECM_DATA_RETENTION_TIME

    • GC$ECM_GEN_SNAPSHOT

    • GC$ECM_SAVED_CONFIG

    • GC$ECM_SAVED_CONFIG_FLAT_MEMS

    • GC$ECM_SAVED_CONFIG_SNAPSHOTS

    • GC$ECM_SAVED_CONFIG_TARGETS

    • GC$ECM_SAVED_TARGET_SNAPSHOTS

    • MGMT$CCS_DATA

    • MGMT$CCS_DATA_SOURCE

    • MGMT$CCS_DATA_SOURCE_VISIBLE

    • MGMT$CCS_DATA_VISIBLE

    • MGMT$DB_CONTROLFILES

    • MGMT$DB_DATAFILES

    • MGMT$DB_DBNINSTANCEINFO

    • MGMT$DB_FEATUREUSAGE

    • MGMT$DB_INIT_PARAMS

    • MGMT$DB_LICENSE

    • MGMT$DB_OPTIONS

    • MGMT$DB_REDOLOGS

    • MGMT$DB_ROLLBACK_SEGS

    • MGMT$DB_SGA

    • MGMT$DB_TABLESPACES

    • MGMT$DB_TABLESPACES_ALL

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_JOB_LAST_RESULTS

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_JOBS

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_RPT_CCS_DS

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_RPT_CCS_DS_DTLS

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_RPT_CCS_PD_ALL

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_RPT_CCS_PD_DIFFS

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_RPT_CI_DIFFS

    • MGMT$ECM_CMP_VISIBLE_CONFIGS

    • MGMT$ECM_CURRENT_SNAPSHOTS

    • MGMT$ECM_VISIBLE_SNAPSHOTS

    • MGMT$SERVICETAG_INSTANCES

    • MGMT$SERVICETAG_REGISTRY

    • MGMT$UNPATCHABLE_DB_TARGETS

  • Oracle Home Patching Views

    • MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHES

    • MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHSETS

    • MGMT$APPL_PATCH_AND_PATCHSET

    • MGMT$CPF_ADVISORY_INFO

    • MGMT$CPF_HOMES_INFO

    • MGMT$CPF_PATCH_INFO

    • MGMT$EM_HOMES_PLATFORM

    • MGMT$HOMES_AFFECTED

    • MGMT$OH_CLONE_PROPERTIES

    • MGMT$OH_COMP_DEP_RULE

    • MGMT$OH_COMP_INST_TYPE

    • MGMT$OH_COMPONENT

    • MGMT$OH_CRS_NODES

    • MGMT$OH_DEP_HOMES

    • MGMT$OH_FILE

    • MGMT$OH_HOME_INFO

    • MGMT$OH_INSTALLED_TARGETS

    • MGMT$OH_INV_SUMMARY

    • MGMT$OH_PATCH

    • MGMT$OH_PATCHED_COMPONENT

    • MGMT$OH_PATCHED_FILE

    • MGMT$OH_PATCH_FIXED_BUG

    • MGMT$OH_PATCHSET

    • MGMT$OH_VERSIONED_PATCHV

    • MGMT$PATCH_ADVISORIES

  • Security Views

    • MGMT$ESA_ALL_PRIVS_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_ANY_DICT_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_ANY_PRIV_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_AUDIT_SYSTEM_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_BECOME_USER_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_CATALOG_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_CONN_PRIV_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_CREATE_PRIV_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_DBA_GROUP_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_DBA_ROLE_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_DIRECT_PRIV_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_EXMPT_ACCESS_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_KEY_OBJECTS_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_OH_OWNERSHIP_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_OH_PERMISSION_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_POWER_PRIV_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_PUB_PRIV_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_SYS_PUB_PKG_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_TABSP_OWNERS_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_TRC_AUD_PERM_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_WITH_ADMIN_REPORT

    • MGMT$ESA_WITH_GRANT_REPORT

  • Client Configuration Views

    • MGMT$CSA_COLLECTIONS

    • MGMT$CSA_FAILED

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_COOKIES

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_CPUS

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_CUSTOM

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_IOCARDS

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_NICS

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_COMPONENTS

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_FILESYSEMS

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_PROPERTIES

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_RULES

    • MGMT$CSA_HOST_SW

    • MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY

Oracle Diagnostics Pack

Oracle Diagnostics Pack provides automatic performance diagnostic and advanced system monitoring functionality.

Features

Oracle Diagnostics Pack includes the following features:

  • Performance monitoring and diagnostics (database and host)

  • Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)

  • AWR Warehouse

  • Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)

  • Compare Period ADDM

  • Real Time ADDM

  • Active Session History (ASH)

  • ASH analytics

  • Performance Hub

  • Exadata Cell Grid Administration

  • Exadata Cell Grid Performance

  • Exadata Cell Group Health Overview page

  • Exadata Resource Utilization

  • Blackouts

  • Notifications

  • Metric and Alert/Event history

  • User-Defined Metrics and Metric Extensions

  • Management Connectors

  • Dynamic metric baselines and Adaptive metric thresholds

  • Monitoring templates and Template Collections

  • Replay Compare Period Report

  • Supporting functionality to perform per stream bottleneck detection and per component top wait event analysis

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for Oracle Diagnostics Pack. A new initialization parameter, CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS, controls access to Oracle Diagnostics Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack. This parameter can be set to one of three values:

  • DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING: Oracle Diagnostics Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack functionally is enabled in the database server.

  • DIAGNOSTIC: Only Oracle Diagnostics Pack functionality is enabled in the server.

  • NONE: Oracle Diagnostics Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack functionally is disabled in the database server.

Any and all methods of accessing Oracle Diagnostics Pack functionality, whether through Enterprise Manager Console, Desktop Widgets, command-line APIs, or direct access to the underlying data, requires an Oracle Diagnostics Pack license.

Licensed Links

To determine which links in Enterprise Manager are part of Oracle Diagnostics Pack, click the Setup link on the top right-hand part of the Enterprise Manager Home page.

  • When you click the Setup link, the navigation bar contains the Management Pack Access link. Click this link.

  • This will take you to the Management Pack Access page, which allows you to grant and remove access from all the management packs.

    • For Enterprise Manager Database Control, click the Remove Access radio button for the Diagnostics Pack and click Apply.

    • For Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, click the appropriate check box for the Diagnostics Pack and click Apply.

This procedure disables all the links and tabs associated with Oracle Diagnostics Pack in Enterprise Manager. All the disabled links and tabs are part of Oracle Diagnostics Pack and therefore require a pack license.

Licensed Command-Line APIs

Oracle Diagnostics Pack features can also be accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces:

  • The DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY package is part of this pack.

  • The DBMS_ADDM package is part of this pack.

  • The DBMS_ADVISOR package is part of this pack if you specify ADDM as the value of the advisor_name parameter, or if you specify for the value of the task_name parameter any value starting with the ADDM prefix.

  • The DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPLAY.COMPARE_PERIOD_REPORT function is part of this pack.

  • The V$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY dynamic performance view and its underlying table, X$ASH, are part of this pack.

  • The DBA_STREAMS_TP_PATH_BOTTLENECK view is part of this pack.

  • All views beginning with DBA_ADDM_ are part of this pack.

  • Some data in DBA_STREAMS_TP_COMPONENT_STAT requires Oracle Diagnostics Pack. The following filter clause to any query on DBA_STREAMS_TP_COMPONENT_STAT shows Diagnostics-Pack-dependent data:

    where STATISTIC_UNIT  = 'PERCENT'
    

    For example, the following query shows Diagnostics-Pack-dependent data only:

    SELECT * FROM DBA_STREAMS_TP_COMPONENT_STAT
       where STATISTIC_UNIT = 'PERCENT';
    
  • All data dictionary views beginning with the prefix DBA_HIST_ are part of this pack, along with their underlying tables.The only exception are the views: DBA_HIST_SNAPSHOT, DBA_HIST_DATABASE_INSTANCE, DBA_HIST_SNAP_ERROR, DBA_HIST_SEG_STAT, DBA_HIST_SEG_STAT_OBJ, and DBA_HIST_UNDOSTAT. They can be used without the Oracle Diagnostics Pack license.

  • All data dictionary views with the prefix DBA_ADVISOR_ are part of this pack if queries to these views return rows with the value ADDM in the ADVISOR_NAME column or a value of ADDM* in the TASK_NAME column or the corresponding TASK_ID.

  • The following reports found in the /rdbms/admin/ directory of the Oracle home directory are part of this pack: awrrpt.sql, awrrpti.sql, awrgrpt.sql, awrgrpti.sql, awrgdrpt.sql, awrgdrpi.sql, addmrpt.sql, addmrpti.sql, ashrpt.sql, ashrpti.sql, awrddrpt.sql, awrddrpi.sql, awrsqrpi.sql, awrsqrpt.sql, awrextr.sql, awrload.sql, awrinfo.sql, spawrio.sql, and spawrrac.sql.

Licensed Repository Views

  • Monitoring Views

    • MGMT$ALERT_ANNOTATIONS

    • MGMT$ALERT_CURRENT

    • MGMT$ALERT_HISTORY

    • MGMT$ALERT_NOTIF_LOG

    • MGMT$AVAILABILITY_CURRENT

    • MGMT$AVAILABILITY_HISTORY

    • MGMT$BLACKOUT_HISTORY

    • MGMT$BLACKOUTS

    • MGMT$METRIC_COLLECTIONS

    • MGMT$ALERT_CURRENT

    • MGMT$METRIC_DAILY

    • MGMT$METRIC_DETAILS

    • MGMT$METRIC_HOURLY

    • MGMT$TARGET_METRIC_COLLECTIONS

    • MGMT$TARGET_METRIC_SETTINGS

  • Template Views

    • MGMT$TEMPLATES

    • MGMT$TEMPLATE_METRIC_COLLECTION

    • MGMT$TEMPLATE_METRIC_SETTINGS

    • MGMT$TEMPLATE_POLICY_SETTINGS

Oracle Tuning Pack

Oracle Tuning Pack provides database administrators with expert performance management for the Oracle environment, including SQL tuning and storage optimizations. Oracle Diagnostics Pack is a prerequisite product to Oracle Tuning Pack. Therefore, to use Oracle Tuning Pack, you must also have Oracle Diagnostics Pack.

Features

Oracle Tuning Pack includes the following features:

  • SQL Access Advisor

  • SQL Tuning Advisor

  • Oracle Database In-Memory Advisor

  • Automatic SQL Tuning

  • SQL Profiles

  • Real-time SQL and PL/SQL Monitoring

  • Real-time Database Operations Monitoring

  • Reorganize objects

A new initialization parameter, CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS, is introduced to control access to Oracle Diagnostics Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack in the database server. This parameter can be set to one of three values:

  • DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING: Oracle Diagnostics Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack functionally is enabled in the database server.

  • DIAGNOSTIC: Only Oracle Diagnostics Pack functionality is enabled in the server.

  • NONE: Oracle Diagnostics Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack functionally is disabled in the database server.

Any and all methods of accessing Oracle Tuning Pack functionality, whether through Enterprise Manager Console, Desktop Widgets, command-line APIs, or direct access to the underlying data, requires an Oracle Tuning Pack license.

Licensed Links

To determine which links in Enterprise Manager are part of Oracle Tuning Pack, click the Setup link on the top right-hand part of the Enterprise Manager Home page.

  • When you click the Setup link, the navigation bar contains the Management Pack Access link. Click this link.

  • This will take you to the Management Pack Access page, which allows you to grant and remove access from all the management packs.

    • For Enterprise Manager Database Control, click the Remove Access radio button for the Tuning Pack and click Apply.

    • For Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, click the appropriate check box for the Tuning Pack and click Apply.

This procedure disables all the links and tabs associated with Oracle Tuning Pack in Enterprise Manager. All the disabled links and tabs are part of Oracle Tuning Pack and therefore require a pack license.

Licensed Command-Line APIs

Oracle Tuning Pack features can also be accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces:

  • DBMS_ADVISOR, when the value of the advisor_name parameter is either SQL Tuning Advisor or SQL Access Advisor.

  • DBMS_SQLTUNE (See Note)

  • V$SQL_MONITOR

  • V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR

  • The following report found in the /rdbms/admin/ directory of the Oracle home directory is part of this pack: sqltrpt.sql.

Note: If you are licensed for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, then you can use certain subprograms of the DBMS_SQLTUNE package even if you do not have an Oracle Tuning Pack license. See the SQL Tuning Sets entry in Table 1-1 for more information.

Checking for Database Option and Management Pack Usage

Oracle provides the script options_packs_usage_statistics.sql, which enables you to check database option and management pack usage on your database. This script lists, in two distinct sections:

  • Database option and management pack usage

  • Features used by each database option and management pack

You can obtain the script from My Oracle Support as follows:

  1. Use a Web browser to view the My Oracle Support Web site:

    https://support.oracle.com
    
  2. Log in to My Oracle Support.

    If you are not a My Oracle Support registered user, then click Register and follow the registration instructions.

  3. Search for Document ID 1317265.1, or access it directly at the following URL:

    https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1317265.1
    

You can manually run the script on an individual database or use Oracle Enterprise Manager Job System to automatically run the script on multiple databases. Refer to Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administrator's Guide for information on Oracle Enterprise Manager Job System.

Note:

The information obtained from this script will provide you an overview of the licensable Database Options and Enterprise Management Packs that were identified as used by your organization. This is to be used for informational purposes only and this does not represent your license entitlement or requirement. Please contact the License Management Services representative at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/license-management-services/index.html to understand your license requirements.

Other Oracle Products

In addition to the options and packs described in this chapter, Oracle provides the following additional products for specific customer environments:

Oracle Database Mobile Server

Oracle Database Mobile Server is a powerful tool for controlling networks of mobile or embedded devices from a centralized management console. It provides a secure, scalable method for connecting applications running locally on mobile or embedded devices to an Oracle enterprise backend. The synchronization system is robust and fault tolerant. It is able to successfully synchronize over unreliable or intermittently available networks. Oracle Database Mobile Server provides management for applications, users, and devices. It runs on a variety of application server platforms, including Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, and Apache TomEE.

On the client device side, it is designed to work with Oracle Berkeley DB as a data store, providing efficient, reliable, and secure data management running locally on mobile and embedded devices. It is also compatible with SQLite, a widely used open source data store. Database Mobile Server supports many popular device platforms including Oracle Java, Linux, Windows (laptop as well as mobile/CE), and Android.

Oracle Programmer

Oracle Programmer is a separate Oracle product that provides a programmatic interface to any edition of Oracle Database for application programmers. Programmer provides a rich set of interfaces for developers who build enterprise applications that access and manipulate Oracle Database. This product is licensed separately from the Oracle Database products. Oracle Programmer is a family of the following products:

  • Embedded SQL-style interfaces: Pro*C/C++, Pro*COBOL, Pro*Fortran, SQL*Module for Ada, SQLJ

  • Utilities to generate host-language bindings from database schemas: Object Type Translator and JPub

Oracle Secure Backup

Oracle Secure Backup is a centralized tape backup management solution providing high performance, heterogeneous data protection in distributed UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments. Protecting file-system and Oracle Database data, Oracle Secure Backup provides a complete tape backup solution for your IT environment. In addition to tape backup, Oracle Secure Backup delivers an integrated Oracle Database backup to third-party cloud (Internet) storage, through the Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module.

Oracle Secure Backup offers the following two tape management editions, each suitable for different development and deployment scenarios:

  • Oracle Secure Backup is ideally suited for distributed environments consisting of multiple servers with advanced data protection requirements such as encryption, rotation of tapes between multiple locations, and protection of NAS devices.

  • Oracle Secure Backup Express edition provides reliable data protection for single-server Oracle Database environments. Oracle Secure Backup Express is available free with the Oracle Database and is the same core product as Oracle Secure Backup. The Express edition is limited to a single host with one direct-attached tape drive and has some restrictions on advanced feature usage. Refer to the Oracle Secure Backup Licensing Information for additional information.

The Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module provides Oracle Database backup to cloud storage using Recovery Manager (RMAN) and is independent of the Oracle Secure Backup tape management editions. The Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module can be used as a complement or replacement for the Oracle Secure Backup tape management solution or other third-party media-management products.