Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c - Top 10 Features for DBAs

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Top 10 Features for DBAs

Leighton L. Nelson

About Me @leight0nn

• Oracle DBA for 10+ years• Oracle ACE• Oracle Certified Expert: RAC and Grid

Infrastructure 11gR2• Co-Author Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager

Cloud Control 12c – Apress 2013• Oracle RAC SIG US Events Chair/IOUG

Liaison

Company Information• Sixth largest Catholic health care system in the U.S.

• Serves more than 3 million people annually.

• Highly integrated organization that includes 32 hospitals, 300 outpatient locations, 39,000 co-workers and 1,700 integrated physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

• Among 10 percent of health care organizations nationwide to have a comprehensive, integrated electric health record that provides real-time, paperless access to patient information

• MyMercy, a free service, allows patients to connect online with their doctors, plus see medical information, view test results, renew prescriptions an schedule appointments using a personal computer or smart phone

• Health Information and Management Systems Society, a global leader in health care technology, designated Mercy a stage six of a seven-stage process, joining the ranks of health care leaders such as Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic

• $60 million data center provides fail-safe protection and power. When an EF5 tornado struck Mercy's Joplin facility in 2011, patient records electronically backed up at offsite data center were immediately available

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Agenda• New Features Overview• Top 10 Database Features

• Database Lifecycle Management

• Real-Time Database Operations

• EMCLI

• ASH Analytics

• Backup & Recovery

• Pluggable Database Support

• Compare Period ADDM

• Real-Time ADDM

• DBaaS

• Extensibility

New Features Overview

• What’s in the box?

New Features Overview

Lots of new stuff.

Login page highlights

some key features plus

new features.

New Features Overview

• Pluggable database support• Provision• Plug/Unplug• Clone

• Advanced EMCLI• Scripting option• JYTHON

• Change Activity Planner• Configuration Management• Compliance Management• Automation

12.1.0.3

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

• Database Patching & Updates• Manual patching is time consuming and confusing

• PSUs/CPUs• One-offs• Opatch• Error Prone

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

• Database Upgrades• Upgrades can be scary

• Pre-requisites• Backups• Down-time• Cross-fingers

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

• Database Patching & Updates• Use Patch Plans• Out of Place Patching support• Integrates with MOS

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

• Database Patching & Updates• 5 Step Process to patch many DBs

• Patch Description• Select the patches to apply and the

targets• Deployment options• Patch Validation & Analysis• Review and Deploy

• More automation with EMCLI• emcli submit_patch_plan

2/ Real-Time Database Operations Monitoring

• Simple Statements• SQL Monitoring• PL/SQL Monitoring

• Composite Database Operations• Enabled by default when

STATISTICS_LEVEL=TYPICAL/ALL

• Define DB Operation• DBMS_SQL_MONITOR.BEGIN_OPERATION• DBMS_SQL_MONITOR.END_OPERATION

12c

2/ Real-Time Database Operations Monitoring

• SQL Monitoring

3/ EM Command Line Interface

• Turbo charges EM!• Enables Script

Automation• Install from OEM

Console• Standard or Advanced

with Scripting Option

3/ EM Command Line Interface

3/ EM Command Line Interface

• emcli help• emcli verb help

4/ ASH Analytics

• Multi-dimensional view of ASH data • DB-Time Analysis• Top Activity +

• Resize sample window• More dimensions• Load map tree

4/ ASH Analytics

5/ Backup & Recovery

When I ask the sysadmins, “The backups are making it to tape, right?”

-DBA Reactions

5/ Backup & Recovery

• RMAN Backup• Target-based RMAN backup

• Wizard-driven interface• Oracle-Suggested or Customized Backup

• Job System based RMAN backup• Use existing RMAN scripts

• Group Backups using deployment procedure• Backup multiple databases, homes and filesystems in a

single operation

5/ Backup & Recovery

6/ Pluggable Database Support

• Oracle Multi-tenant support• Pluggable databases (PDB)• Container databases (CDB)

7/ Compare Period ADDM

“Why is the database slower today than yesterday?”

Compares database activity over two periods of time

8/ Real-Time Automatic Database Diagnostics Monitor

• Real-Time ADDM• Analyzes hung or very slow DB• Finds sources of contention• Performs DB Time Analysis• Uses 2 connection modes

• Normal JDBC connection• Latch-less connection

• Enhanced Real-Time ADDM 12c

8/ Real-Time ADDM

Real-time ADDM Active Reports

9/ ‘C’ is for Cloud

• Database-as-a-Service“I promised management that we’d get the project

rolling today. Is the database ready?”

“What database?”

9/ Database-as-a-Service

• DBCA Template• RMAN Backup• Storage Snap Clone (NetApp/Sun ZFS)

9/ Database-as-a-Service

• Database-as-a-Service

9/ Database-as-a-Service

• Database-as-a-Service

When the SAN admin says, “Nah, nothing changed recently.”

10/ Extensibility (3rd Party Plug-ins)

• VMware Plug-in (Blue Medora)• Storage Plug-ins

• NetApp• EMC VMAX

• Amazon AWS Plug-in

10/ Extensibility (3rd Party Plug-ins)

There’s more…

• Corrective Actions• Metric Extensions• Job System• Incident Management• Administration Groups• Configuration Search• Compliance Standards

Thank You

• Questions?

Contact Information

http://blogs.griddba.com

linkedin.com/pub/leighton-nelson/4/6b8/a7a

@leight0nn

leighton.nelson@mercy.net