As a monitoring tool, the software discovers and identifies all assets in its environment, and displays the status of assets and details of a specific asset. As a provisioning tool, the software deploys new assets in a manner consistent with existing assets because you use profiles to set the attributes and you use plans to deploy the profiles to one target or many targets. As a virtualization manager, the software creates and manages virtual operating systems, virtual servers such as Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Zone, and virtual data centers in the cloud.
Various sites and various users within each site value different aspects of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center software:
As a monitoring tool, the software discovers and identifies all assets in its environment, and displays the status of assets and details of a specific asset. When an incident occurs, you can track the progress of the investigation or service request.
As a provisioning tool, the software deploys new assets in a manner consistent with existing assets because you use profiles to set the attributes and you use plans to deploy the profiles to one target or many targets. In a similar way, when assets must be upgraded, you use the update profiles and plans to perform the operations.
As a virtualization manager, the software creates and manages virtual operating systems, virtual servers such as Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Zone, and virtual data centers in the cloud. To support these virtual assets, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center manages and provides resources for storage and networks.
Not every product feature is relevant to your site's activities or for your role. What you see in the user interface is affected by several factors:
The role attached to your user account: The actions for your role are available in the Actions pane. The required roles for using a feature are listed in each chapter of this document. When you must accomplish a task and the necessary action is not available to you, your administrator can add the role to your user account. When you log in again, the action is available.
The current connection mode: In Connected mode, actions that rely on OS and firmware images and packages use the latest images and packages downloaded from Oracle and vendor sites. If your site uses the product software in Disconnected mode, the images and packages in your local knowledge base do not change until your site acquires them. Also in Connection mode, you can create service request from incidents with full asset information and warranty status. In Disconnected mode, you must contact My Oracle Support and provide this information.
Changing the connection mode can be done easily and temporarily. See the for the procedure for changing the connection mode.
The scope of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center: The product software is designed to manage assets of a data center, from small to large. However, the product software is also installed in an Oracle Engineered System, which is a complete set of integrated hardware and software designed to reach a specific level of capability, capacity, and scale. In this case, the product software is managing the components of the engineered system and the virtual assets that the system supports. Some actions are not relevant to an engineered system and so are not visible in the user interface.