Introduction to the Engineered Systems Packs

Advanced Management and Monitoring Solution

The advanced management and monitoring functionality offered by these packs for hybrid Engineered System fleets focuses on the following value additions to the existing core management and monitoring functionality contained in the Exadata, ZDLRA, and Database plug-ins:

Automation of fleet-level, multi-step, complex procedures that cannot be easily performed outside of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Automation that leverages the inherent Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control capabilities like procedure scheduling and execution, credentials management, and the Software Library to streamline Engineered System configuration and maintenance
Features at both the individual system and fleet levels that integrate extensive Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control metric data with new UIs and dashboards to provide unique, deep analysis and visualization tools

Core Management and Monitoring Functionality

The following core management and monitoring functionality is standard in the Exadata and ZDLRA plug-ins:

Support for new Exadata, ZDLRA, and database software and hardware versions
Monitoring, including metrics for core functions
Per-system management workflows for core Exadata and ZDLRA administration operations

For more information about the plug-ins, see Related Resources.

Advantages of the Exadata and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Management Packs

Broad feature support across the major Engineered Systems on-premises and Cloud-based variants: Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer, Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance
User Interfaces, EMCLI verbs, workflows, jobs, and deployment procedures that address advanced Engineered System use cases beyond the functionality currently available in the Exadata, ZDLRA, and Database plug-ins
Fleet-scale deployment procedures that automate complex, multi-step processes across multiple Exadata systems, Recovery Appliances, databases, and hosts
Dashboards and consoles that operate at the Engineered System fleet level to provide large scale capacity, inventory and performance analysis, compliance management, and patching management
Advisors that provide deep, granular database performance analysis capabilities for an individual Exadata
Workflows and procedures that operate at the database fleet level to provide streamlined end-to-end backup configuration and scheduling for Recovery Appliance destinations
New Exadata and Recovery Appliance target consoles from which all the new advanced Engineered System fleet management features can be accessed

Benefits of the Exadata Management Pack

Exadata administrators who need to perform the following activities across a large fleet of on-premises and/or Cloud-based Exadata systems:

Analyze performance, capacity, and inventory across the Exadata fleet.
Manage and monitor Exachk compliance check policies, schedules, and invocations across the fleet.
Perform Exadata hardware component patching across the Exadata fleet.
Perform noisy-neighbor and CPU utilization analysis across all databases running on an Exadata.
Visualize Exascale storage usage across all databases running on an Exadata.
Visualize a detailed inventory of databases running on a Cloud-based Exadata (Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer and Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure).

Benefits of the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Management Pack

Recovery Appliance and database administrators who need to perform the following activities across a large database fleet combined with one or more Recovery Appliances:

Analyze performance, capacity, and inventory across the Recovery Appliance fleet.
Monitor Exachk compliance check policies, schedules, and invocations across the Recovery Appliance fleet.
Configure multiple databases to send backups and redo to one or more Recovery Appliances, including optional configuration of alternate Recovery Appliance destinations.
Configure databases in one or more Data Guard configurations to send backups and redo from the primary and/or standby databases to one or more Recovery Appliances, including optional configuration of alternate Recovery Appliance destinations.
Schedule automatic, optimized archival backups for multiple databases from a Recovery Appliance to Oracle Cloud storage or tape.