Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center facilitates lifecycle management for your Oracle Solaris and Linux operating systems, including installing, updating (patching), upgrading, and monitoring your Oracle Solaris and Linux operating systems.
Use the software libraries, profiles, and plans in Enterprise Manager Ops Center to consistently provision, update, or upgrade a specific operating system release or package with your defined configuration on a discovered and managed hardware asset. You have the option to create a custom Oracle Solaris 11 AI manifest and use that manifest when provisioning Oracle Solaris 11 operating system.
You create reusable OS Provisioning and OS Configuration profiles to define how to install the software. The OS Provisioning profiles define the OS image or package and basic OS configuration and boot network information. The OS Configuration profiles define the networking configuration, including advanced networking configurations for Oracle Solaris. You can mix and match compatible OS Provisioning and OS Configuration profiles in OS Provisioning Deployment Plans. A plan defines the profiles to use and the targets to provision. When you apply a plan, you provide a specific IP address and have the option to make changes to the network and interface for the target. You can apply the plan immediately, or schedule the plan to provision the operating system during off-peak times without your intervention.
For Oracle Solaris 11.2 or later, you can create Unified Archive files from existing operating systems running on an asset and use them to deploy new ones or recover one.
When you provision the operating system, you can use the same SRU version that you selected when creating a profile to be used for provisioning.
You can use UAR when provisioning your operating system to speed up the process.
Similar to OS provisioning, the software uses OS Update profiles and plans to standardize how you perform updates and upgrades. You use Update Profiles and deployment plans to define which components or packages to install and the level of automation during the installation. You can simulate an update job, update an operating system immediately, or schedule the update job to run later.
A variety of OS reports enable you to easily maintain your supported operating systems, determine if an asset has the latest updates and packages and to apply updates to a group of assets. Use the Reports feature to check for security advisories. For example, the Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) report identifies systems that might have security vulnerabilities.
Monitor operating system status, view operating system details, utilization (such as CPU, memory, and network utilization), associated zones, incidents, storage and Oracle Solaris boot environments. Use the OS Analytics feature to track, evaluate, and improve the performance of supported operating systems and zones. The charts, reports, and utilization data provide details of an individual operating system or zone.