Enterprise Manager Base Functionality

10 Enterprise Manager Base Functionality

This chapter outlines the list of features that are included with the base functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager:

The base installation of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c includes several features free of charge with the purchase of any Oracle software license or Support contract.

Base Framework Feature Summary

The following items are included as part of framework features of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c:

Base Framework Feature	Description
Agent Management	Start, stop, restart, and modify agent configuration from Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c. View agent health from agent home page.
Agent Provisioning and Patching	Automate deployment of agent software and patches to the target servers.
Agent-based Target Discovery	Discover targets running on a host automatically by deploying the agent.
Alerts and Metric Threshold Management (excludes notifications)	Configure thresholds for metrics and view alerts (server generated or generated based on threshold violation). This excludes notifications which requires one or more licensed Packs.
Auto-Discovery	Discover host on a network and promote to being managed by Enterprise Manager.
Dynamic Runbooks	Enable subject matter experts to encapsulate best practice steps for diagnosing and resolving issues into a runbook that can be executed directly inside Enterprise Manager. Dynamic Runbooks can be used in the context of hosts, agents, and the Enterprise Manager System (Managing the Manager). Dynamic Runbooks used in the context of jobs is not a part of the Enterprise Manager Base Functionality. The license required is based on the target type of the job, i.e., the Enterprise Manager management pack that contains the monitoring features for the target type will apply.
Enterprise Manager App for Grafana	Render Enterprise Manager's metric data onto Grafana for flexible dashboards and related analytics.
Enterprise Manager Dashboards	Use Enterprise Manager dashboards to gather real-time data from the enterprise and display them in easy-to-interpret widgets.
Enterprise Manager Federation	Define all your Enterprise Manager sites and access critical information from a single new interface.
Enterprise Manager Mobile	Monitor Enterprise Manager sites from a mobile application. The application can be downloaded from the App Store® for Apple mobile devices and from Google Play for Android mobile devices.
Enterprise Manager Self Management and Monitoring	View Management Services and Repository and Management Service target pages and reports. View Enterprise Manager topology.
Enterprise Manager Support Workbench	Access Checker Central diagnostics checks. Run EMDiag Kit. Package and send Problem information to Oracle Support.
Event Compression	Manage incidents better by compressing or grouping related events into a single incident. Event Compression can be used in the context of hosts, agents, and the Enterprise Manager System (Managing the Manager). When Event Compression is used in the context of jobs, licensing will be based on the target type of the job, i.e., the Enterprise Manager management pack that contains the monitoring features for the target type will apply. For example, if the target type of the job is a host, it will be covered under the Server, Storage, and Virtualization Management features.
Extensibility Development Kit (EDK)	Collection of tools, utilities, sample code, and documentation that enables creation of new plug-ins to extend Enterprise Manager's ability to monitor and manage new types of targets.
Groups and Systems Management	Enable administrators to manage multiple targets as one.
Information Publisher and Reporting	Create and manage reports in Enterprise Manager's embedded reporting solution or in the independently configured Oracle Analytics Server installation. Specific reports in Enterprise Manager may be licensed under Packs.
Job Diagnostics Dashboards	Diagnose problems and resolve job system performance issues using intuitive dashboards that provide an administrator view of the job system.
Job System and Corrective Actions	Automate routine (often repetitive) tasks. Enables automated response to metric alerts.
Monitoring and Incident Management	Provide administrators with ability to monitor targets individually or in groups or systems. View and manage incidents generate from events associated with targets.
My Oracle Support integration	Provide seamless access to My Oracle Support within the Enterprise Manager user interface. Manage Service Requests and review Knowledge Base articles, all without leaving the Enterprise Manager user interface.
Oracle Linux Virtualization (OLV)	Monitor Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and its constituent parts. A comprehensive set of predefined performance and health metrics enables automated monitoring of the Oracle Linux Virtualization environment.
Parallel OMS Upgrades	Upgrade the primary OMS and then upgrade all additional OMS simultaneously.
Self-update (functionality in plug-ins may be licensed under Packs)	Update Enterprise Manager with new features or fixes based on new versions of software available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) or My Oracle Support (MOS).
Software Library (excludes licensed software)	Manage software entities such as software patches, virtual appliance images, reference gold images, application software, and their associated directive scripts. This excludes any software entities that are a part of a licensed Pack.
User, Role and Credentials Management	Manage Enterprise Manager user access, the roles associated with users, and the credentials used by users to access targets.
vCPU Utilization Tracking	Track and report on Oracle product vCPU consumption on supported Oracle Engineered Systems.
Enterprise Manager–to-Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Bridge	Enterprise Manager–to-Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Bridge allows data transfer from Enterprise Manager targets and Oracle Management Repository (OMR) to OCI Object Storage where it can be accessed by cloud-native services.

Base Database Management Feature Summary

Users of Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition databases can use the Base Framework features and the Base Database Management Features. The following items are included as part of base database management features of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c:

Base Database Management Feature	Description
Add Protected Database for ZDLRA	Perform Recovery Appliance administration using the Add Protected Database operation verb, `manage_ra`.
Advisor Central	Initiate an Advisor operation for various database management tasks, such as Segment Advisor, Memory Advisor. Some Advisors may be licensed under Packs.
Data movement	Configure and manage movement of data between databases using features such streams, replication, data pump.
Database Migration Workbench	Migrate workloads from an on-premises database to an Autonomous Database using the Database Migration Workbench. Database Migration Workbench features include the actual migration, post-migration analysis, and post-migration performance comparison.
Error management	View error history reported in the database alert log. Manage and diagnose critical errors reported using Support Workbench. Package errors and associated trace files into incidents for reporting on My Oracle Support.
Execute SQL REST API	Use HTTP-based REST endpoints to execute SQL commands and extract data from the Oracle Management Repository or a database target configured in Enterprise Manager.
Grid Infrastructure management	Manage all components of Oracle Grid Infrastructure including Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Clusterware (including Cluster Ready Services (CRS).
High availability	Configure and manage database backups, initiate recovery actions, configure flashback. View and configure standby databases. Analyze high availability configuration against Maximum Availability Architecture.
Multi-OMS deployment for high availability	OMS deployed on the primary site in an active/active configuration. Note: In a high availability/disaster recovery configuration with primary and standby sites, additional licensing is required to use RAC or Data Guard for the Oracle Management Repository. For information, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Restricted-use License.
Non-structured data management	Manage multi-dimensional data such as OLAP, semi-structured data such as XML, and unstructured data such as text.
Object, program and initialization parameters management	Manage database objects such as tables, indexes, views, materialized views. Manage PL/SQL and Java-based database programs such as triggers, procedures, functions. View and manage database initialization parameters.
Optimizer Management	Manage optimizer statistics and SQL plans. Some capabilities under SQL Plan Control may be licensed under Packs.
Pluggable Database (PDB) Create/Plug/Unplug	Create PDB from seed, plug PDB from unplugged PDB and unplug PDB (single target operations only using non-customized deployment procedure).
Resource Management	Manage the distribution of operating system resources by defining and assigning resource plans to consumer groups within the database.
Scheduler Central	Manage automated jobs maintained by Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager including Automatic Maintenance Tasks.
Security	Manage database users, roles, profiles, configure Virtual Private Database (VPN) policies. Certain database security pages are licensed under the corresponding database security option, for example, Database Vault, Audit Vault.
SQL Execution	View SQL execution history, execute ad hoc SQL using Run SQL or SQL Worksheet.
Space and Undo Management	Manage control files, tablespaces, datafiles, log files, automatic undo management.
Support Workbench	View critical errors captured in the Automatic Diagnostic Repository, create incidents from errors to report to My Oracle Support.
Upgrade Planner	My Oracle Support Upgrade Planner.
Workspace management	Define and configure workspaces to maintain different versions of table row values in different workspaces.

Base Middleware Management Feature Summary

The following items are included as part of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Middleware management:

Note:

Only the target home page itself is unlicensed. All links including metric links to look at historical metrics are part of the appropriate middleware management pack and require a license.

Base Middleware Management Feature	Description
Discovery of Oracle Fusion Middleware Farm/WebLogic Domain	Allow for discovery of Oracle WebLogic Domains and Oracle Fusion Middleware Farms (includes discovery of Fusion Middleware components deployed to the domains as well).
Drilldowns to Administration Consoles	Provide links for launching and accessing administration consoles such as the Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control console and Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console.
Fusion Middleware targets home pages (Exception is JVM and JVM Pool target home pages; these two home pages are part of a management pack and require a license.)	View target home pages including, but not limited to the following target types: WebLogic Domain Fusion Middleware Farm WebLogic Cluster and WebLogic Server Application Deployment and Clustered Application Deployment WebCenter Oracle Service Bus target SOA Infrastructure and Composite target
Process Control	Ability to start, stop, restart Oracle Fusion Middleware related components.
Refresh or Rediscovery of Oracle Fusion Middleware Farm/WebLogic Domain	Refresh or rediscover Oracle Fusion Middleware Farm/WebLogic Domain and its members - either manually or automatically with a predefined job.
Support Workbench	Automatic collection of diagnostic data when critical errors occur in WebLogic Server and SOA Infrastructure components. Data can then be quickly and easily packaged and sent to Oracle Support to reduce problem resolution time.
WLST Script job	Schedule and track the execution of WLST commands from the Cloud Control console.

Base Engineered Systems Management Feature Summary

Engineered Systems Management components include:

Exadata Management Features

The following pages are included as part of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Exadata management:

Exadata Management Feature	Description
Schematic	Database Machine Schematic Physical components Physical placement Temperature of cells Alter physical placement of each component through Edit Status summary of each component List of alerts
Topology Viewer	DB Machine Software Topology System Members InfiniBand Switch
Exadata Grid	Overview – Target status, Cell health, release version and IORM status Capacity – Disk capacity allocated to ASM, ASM Diskgroup summary and cell incidents Note: these regions are licensed by the Oracle Diagnostics Pack: Workload Distribution by Databases Cell level Performance charts – I/O, CPU, Network and Response Time
IB Network page	Overview – status, switches, firmware version, Schematic explaining the port status, Node status, List of alerts, incidents. Note: these regions are licensed by the Oracle Diagnostics Pack: Throughput details
ILOM, KVM, Cisco Switch, PDU	Summary, Job Activity, list of alerts

Exalogic Management Features

The following items are included as part of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Exalogic management:

Exalogic Management Feature	Description
Basic monitoring	Component placement – schematic view, temperature, hardware up and down status Software dashboard page Virtualization pages within the Exalogic Navigation tree Storage pages Topology view of the system and components Exalogic InfiniBand (IB) Fabric Page

Private Cloud Appliance Management Features

The following items are included as part of Enterprise manager cloud control Private Cloud Appliance management:

Private Cloud Appliance Feature	Description
IaaS Self Service Portal	Includes deployment of Operating System only templates or assemblies. Note: Provisioning templates or assemblies containing Oracle software such as Database or WebLogic Server requires the relevant Cloud and Lifecycle packs.
Chargeback	Chargeback for host only metrics (CPU, Memory and Storage etc).
Rack Monitoring	Private cloud appliance schematic Physical placement Temperature and IP information Status summary of each component List of alerts and incidents
Topology Viewer	Private cloud appliance topology System members Switch fabric

Server, Storage, and Virtualization Management Feature Summary

The following items are included as part of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c server and virtualization management. This also includes Oracle VM Server, Oracle VM Server for X86 with the Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.

Server, Storage, and Virtualization Features	Description
Administration	Provide remote administration capabilities for hosts.
Chargeback	Chargeback and Metering for guest virtual machines (VMs) and hosts. Note: Chargeback for VMs and hosts is free and does not require a license.
Configuration management	Provide hardware and software configuration data collection.
Consolidation Planner	Determine optimal server consolidation scenarios by leveraging data collected by Cloud Control against business and technical constraints.
Dynamic Topology	Maintain the child-to-parent relationship between the service processor, hypervisor, global zone, control domain, and virtual machine.
Guest VM/Linux OS Patching	Provide automated host patching and integration with an Unbreakable Linux network (ULN).
Historical Trending	View historical workload trends.
Host monitoring and management	Monitor of Cloud Control component services, such as jobs and notifications.
Infrastructure Management	Provide ready access to Home, Self-Service, Request Dashboard pages through the Infrastructure Cloud menu.
Metric Extensions	Create new metrics to monitor conditions specific to customer environments. Note: Metric Extensions are available free of charge only for the host target and not for other targets.
Monitoring Profiles for V12N	Provide monitoring attributes for issues associated with Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Container environments.
Notifications	Notification on events and incidents for infrastructure targets (hosts, storage, VMs).
Management Connectors	Management Connectors, such as ticketing connectors and event connectors, integrate Enterprise Manager with other management systems. Ticketing connectors open help desk tickets for incidents raised in Enterprise Manager. Event connectors share event information with other event management systems. The use of Management Connectors are available specifically for events and incidents on infrastructure targets (hosts, storage, VMs).
Oracle VM and Guest VM provisioning	Deploy Oracle VM server software to bare-metal servers and create Guest VMs using operating system ISOs or using the PXE mode.
Oracle VM management including Oracle VM manager and self-service console (IaaS Self Service Portal)	Manage and monitor Virtual Machines, hypervisors, storage and network environment.
Disaster Recovery (Site Guard) for Oracle VM	Disaster Recovery via Site Guard to automate complete site failover of Oracle Virtual Machine.
Performance monitoring	Provide real-time and historical performance monitoring.
Storage Plug-in	Manage storage assets more effectively.