Enterprise Manager 12c Rollout

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Overview
Architecture / Planning

Patching

Installation

Groups

Users/Credentials/MOS

Monitoring Templates

Licensing

Incidents/Notifications

Extensibility

Discovery
Competence
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Architecture / Planning

What do you want from EM12c?

What will be the role of EM?
What other tools will you use?
Do you need integration?

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Architecture / Planning

Phases
Planning/Architecture

Licensing

Installation

Patching

MOS
Connection/Credentials

Authentication

Group Setup

Target discorery

Daily use of EM

Upgrading

Integration

Backup / Recovery

Monitoring Templates

Incidents/Notifications

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Architecture / Planning

Do you need licences from the start?

No, you do not
You need licence(s) when
You need HA options
You need management pack options

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Architecture / Planning

Check Do you need a separate test and

production environment?
Pros
Only possible solution when there are separate network zones
Can test patches in test environment

Cons
Higher cost for maintenance and hardware
Cannot verifiy every patch first, but do you need it?
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Architecture / Planning

Check Where is your service desk?

Will all be handeled in EM ?
Do you have external systems for this?
Nagios
HP

Remedy

This is handeled by Connectors or custom

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Architecture / Planning

Check Is there any ITIL requirements?

EM fits the ITIL vocubulary well
There is good support for compliance rules / framework

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Architecture / Planning

Check Will you use an LDAP service?

You can have a user base in EM, but we recommend only for a small
set of users
If you have LDAP in place, we recommend using it
This will need some setup on the LDAP service
Use personal users not SYSMAN

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Architecture / Planning

Check Do you have any OS requirements?

We recommend Oracle Enterprise Linux
But others work too

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Architecture / Planning

Check Can you run this virtual?

Recommended is dedicated physical environment

For redundancy: ODA X4-2

For virtual environment we recommend OVM

Not on same virtual environment as the rest (separate OVM Manager)

Licencing is not an issue, so use a fast server recommendation is 32GB RAM,

minimum 16GB RAM

Check that your disk is not slow

Our recommendation is the simplest choice: Run DB and EM on same node

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Architecture / Planning

Check Do you need HA?

HA will require HA on database, and you will have to licence the database

HA will require a more complex installation procedure

For clustered install, Oracle Database Appliance is an option

If you are not sure, plan for HA or growth

for example configure a virtual host name
use the middle size option instead of small

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Installation

Installation, patching & deployment options

Is handeled in separate presentations

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Browsers
Chrome is the fastest
Firefox comes as second
IE is very slow on older versions
Have seen login-problems on different browsers
You need to handle Certificate that comes with EM, it gives
certificate problem
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Licencing
Enable Annotations

Enable/disable appropriate packs

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Credentials
Each target type has a set of credentials (name/password)
Ex Agent: Normal Host Credentials, Privileged Host Credentials

Default Preferred Credentials

Target Preferred Credentials

Named credentials (use them)

Can be given access to for others
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Credentials

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Credentials

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Competence
Try out EM!
Install on a test server or use Virtual Box Image
Trainings or tailored Workshops
Or work together with those who know the products

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Up and running

Common Challenges
Do not get relevant notifications
Must activate relevant rules

Do get too many notifications

Stop those not relevant

Target monitoring / Notifications

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Q&A

Email: jonpetter.hjulstad@sysco.no
Twitter: jphjulstad
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