9 Cloud Management

This chapter describes the Cloud Management packs. The following packs are included:

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database
Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Middleware

Out-of-the-box cloud licenses are granted to already existing targets on which licenses are defined and whenever new targets are discovered the packs are granted automatically. License access information can be verified by clicking Setup, Management Packs, then Management Pack Access.

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database

Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database helps to set up a Database Cloud and operate the Database as a Service model.

Features

Some of the feature provided by this pack are:

Self-service Database provisioning on physical infrastructure.
Self-service, Database-only Assembly provisioning on Oracle Virtualization Management infrastructure. For example, if there is an assembly topology of three VMs (two WebLogic Server-managed servers and one database), you will need both packs to cover the two set of servers.
Support both single instance and Real Application Clusters (RAC) configuration.
Policy-driven resource management, such as scale out and scale back of compute power.
Metering and chargeback based on fixed cost, utilization metrics and configuration parameters of the database and the underlying infrastructure (host, VM, storage).
Programmatic access to the Self-Service Portal.

Prerequisites

The Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database requires the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.

Licensed Links

Starting on the Enterprise Summary home page, the following licensed pages and links of this pack apply:

Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Infrastructure Home.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Infrastructure Request Dashboard.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Infrastructure Policies.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Middleware and Database Home.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Middleware and Database Request Dashboard.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Self Service Portal.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Cloud, then Service Instances.
Click the Enterprise menu. Select Chargeback.
Click the Setup menu. Select Cloud.

Licensed APIs

API	Description
Assembly Upload	POST/GET/PUT/DELETE on `/em/library` URI space and subspace of Template media type with attribute "type" = "Assembly"
Assembly Deployment	POST on `/em/cloud` URI space and subspace of VDC media type's `assembly_instance` URI
Query Request Status of Assembly Deployment	GET on `/em/cloud` URI space and subspace of VDC media type's `assembly_instance` URI GET on `/em/cloud` URI space and subspace of AssemblyInstance media type
Retirement/Destroy	DELETE on `/em/cloud` URI space and subspace of AssemblyInstance media type
Scale up/down	PUT on `/em/cloud` URI space and subspace of AssemblyInstance media type PUT on `/em/cloud` URI space and subspace of ScalabilityGroup media type that is under an AssemblyInstance
`emcli get_metering_data`	Command line API to retrieve hourly-metering information. The data retrieval process can be used for integration with billing and reporting systems.

Licensed Views and Tables

The following objects within the repository schema are licensed under the Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database:

Tables starting with EMCT_CBA.
Views starting with EMCT$CBA.
The view GP_EMCT_CBA_TARGET_CHARGE.

Licensed Chargeback Reports

The following BI Publisher reports are licensed under the Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Middleware. Also, any report created using “create-like” feature of BI publisher referring the following reports, fall under this license.

Charge Trend Report
Charge Summary Report
Usage Trend Report
Usage Summary Report

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Middleware

Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Fusion Middleware helps to set up a Middleware Cloud and operate the Middleware (or Platform) as a Service model.