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
• Mercy SafeWatch, the largest electronic ICU in the nation, provides 24-hour vigilance to critically ill patients. Alongside on-site medical teams, high-definition cameras and sophisticated technology allow specialized ICU physicians and nurses in a central command center to expand each patient's care team
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