Enterprise Manager 12 c (EM12 c ), Oracle’s newest and fully-integrated enterprise management product, now provides a complete cloud lifecycle management solution and enterprise environment management interface. Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c opens up the secrets of this incredible management tool, saving you time while enhancing your visibility as someone management can rely upon to deliver reliable database service in today’s increasingly chaotic and change-driven IT environment. Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c covers all the topics you demand and need to function effectively, from basic monitoring and configuration to advanced metric extensions and plugins. Real-life scenarios and demonstrations place you in the comfort zone of using the EM12 c console, and the experienced author team provides deep understanding of the inner workings of this new Enterprise Manager. Database administrators and system administrators are expected to offer increasing levels of service for 24X7 systems and newer cloud environments. Em12 c offers robust, end-to-end intelligent management of the complete environment. It includes direct, real-time integration with Oracle’s online knowledgebase. Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c helps you master this important tool and manage any challenge that comes your way. Provides example solutions to everyday problems through EM12c features. Explains the changes in EM12 c , included trusted extensions. Focuses on advanced aspects of the EM12 c interface. What you’ll learn Installation and agent employment Patching and provisioning Advanced techniques for managing and monitoring Use of EM12 c in cloud environments, with RAC, and for Exadata Creation of EM12 c plugins and metric extensions High-availability and disaster-recovery options with EM12 c Incident Manager and EM12 c job management Who this book is for Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is for database administrators who are ready to upgrade, or who have already upgraded to Enterprise Manager 12c. The book also appeals to system administrators who may have responsibility for helping support Oracle Database environments – including RAC and Exadata – at the enterprise level. Table of Contents Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Architecture Installation and Agent Deployment Management of the OMS and Repository Interacting with the EM12c Console Cloud Lifecycle Management Patching, Provisioning and the Software Library Managing and Monitoring Best Practices Managing Engineered Systems Performance Pages and ASH Analytics Metric Extensions and EM12c Plugins Enterprise Manager Jobs Incident Manager High Availability, Backup, and Recovery About the Author Kellyn Pot'Vin is an Oracle ACE Director and Sr. TechnicalConsultant at Enkitec, managing Oracle and SQL Server. She specializes inenvironment optimization tuning and creating systems that are robust andenterprise level. Kellyn works mostly on mult-TB size databases, includingExadata and databases with driven performance involving solid state disksolutions. Kellyn is deeply involved in the Oracle User Group Community,speaking at conferences around the world and is the director for the RockyMountain Training Days Conference, (RMOUG) one of the largest regionalconferences. Kellyn blogs at https://dbakevlar.comand is engrossed in social media. Shecan be found on Twitter under the handle, @DBAKevlar, Linked in and Facebook,where she often discusses her daily technical adventures since she works fromhome and doesn't have any co-workers to tell them to. She also heads up local and global WIT,(Women in Technology) groups, mentoring fellow women in technical fields. Kellyn resides in Westminster, CO with herpartner, Tim Gorman and her three children, Sam, Cait and Josh. Niall Litchfield is a DBA of 15 years standing, with extensive experience of running databases on various x86(64) platforms, and with a particular bias towards Microsoft Windows. Niall began professional life as a ""bean-counter"" for KPMG, consequently he is a DBA who respects auditors, not least because they have to stand in unheated warehouses in the middle of winter watching other people count things, something he never wants to do again. His dad was a real engineer crafting genuinely useful objects with fine tolerances and that, coupled with an early experience in which he showed that the two competing macro-economic theories of the time both explained actual behavior equally well, and that neither explained it adequately, rather explains his evidence based approach to databases in general and performance tuning in particular. FewDBAs are as well equipped as Alex Gorbachev to handle any kind of database scenario. Alexhas architected and designed numerous successful database solutions addressingchallenging business requirements. Alex is a respected figure in the Oracleworld and a sought-after leader and speaker at Oracle conferences around theglobe. He regularly publishes articles on the Pythian blog and runs onlinewebinars. Alex is a member of OakTable Network and an Oracle ACE Director. Today, Alex is working at The Pythian Group. Hestarted at Pythian in Ottawa, leading a team of database experts before movingto Australia to embrace the challenges of setting up company business in theEast Asia/Pacific region. Now he's back in Ottawa as Pythian's Chief TechnologyOfficer, continuing to bridge the gap between business and technology. Thesearch for the perfect fit between technology, engineering talents and businessprocesses is what keeps him up at night. Anand Akela is Senior Principal Product Marketing Directorfor Oracle Enterprise Manager. He focuses on Oracle’s enterprise cloud,virtualization, and infrastructure management offerings. Prior to his currentrole at Oracle, he worked at HP in various product marketing, productmanagement, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, datacenter energy efficiency, and enterprise software areas. Anand is an active participant in various data centerindustry consortiums and currently serves as Chairman for the Data Collectionand Analysis Work Group at The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a globalconsortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energyefficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems around the globe.Anand also serves as an advisor to PeersNet, a web services provider. Anandreceived his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a B.S.in Computer Science from Pune University in India. Bobby Curtis is a Solution Architect at BIAS Corporation in Atlanta, GA. He has been a database administrator for 11 of 17 years in the IT industry, with experience in Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase. Bobby specializes in database implementation, configuration, and data integration for enterprise level databases and monitoring tools. He is a member of the Georgia Oracle User Group (GOUSER), Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG), and Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG). Bobby is also certified in Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle Exadata. He now puts particular focus on the Oracle Database Appliance. Computers,General,System Administration,Databases