Oracle® Enterprise Manager Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide 12c Release 2 (12.1.0.2) Part Number E27046-08 |
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In today's world, with the cloud infrastructure, numerous low cost servers and software deployments on those servers have brought in a fresh set of lifecycle management challenges. The challenges range from discovering and monitoring the health of existing software deployments to provisioning new software deployments and maintaining them over a period of time.
Besides that, other problems include difficulty in managing consistency and compatibility across these software deployments and operating systems, managing configuration changes, and managing security vulnerabilities that lead to lack of compliance.
These lifecycle management challenges eventually force you to engage more human resources and devote significant amount of time in managing the data center operations.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (Cloud Control) offers lifecycle management solutions that help you meet all lifecycle management challenges easily by automating time-consuming tasks related to discovery, initial provisioning and cloning, patching, configuration management, ongoing change management, and compliance management.
Figure 1-1 illustrates the lifecycle management solutions offered by Cloud Control.
Table 1-1 describes each of these lifecycle management solutions.
Table 1-1 Lifecycle Management Solutions
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The provisioning and patch management solutions are essentially based on deployment procedures, which are Oracle-supplied predesigned procedures that help you accomplish the provisioning and patching tasks. Deployment procedures contain a hierarchal sequence of steps, where each step might contain a sequence of other steps. Essentially, they encapsulate the workflow of all the tasks that need to be performed for a provisioning or patching operation. For more information about deployment procedures, see Chapter 32. For information about the default deployment procedure that you must use for your provisioning or patching operation, refer to the respective chapters.Table 1-2 lists the chapters and sections relevant to the various lifecycle management solutions offered by Cloud Control. Consider this an information roadmap to learn about the solution and perform the required operations.
Table 1-2 Information Map for Lifecycle Management Solutions
Target Name | Solution Area | Reference Links |
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Database |
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Single-Instance Database |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Upgrade |
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Patching |
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Change Management |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle Real Application Server (Oracle RAC) |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Patching |
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Change Management |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle RAC One Database |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
Provisioning Oracle Real Application Clusters One (Oracle RAC One) Node Databases |
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Change Management |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle Database Replay Client |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Change Management |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Fusion Middleware |
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Oracle Fusion Middleware |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Java EE Applications |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Coherence Nodes and Clusters |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle SOA Artifacts and Composites |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle Service Bus |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle BPEL Process Manager |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Oracle Application Server |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Patching |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Operating System |
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Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SuSE Linux (SLES) |
Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Patching |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |