Detailed Course Outline
Introduction
- Course Schedule
- Key Challenges for Administrators
- This Course in Context
- Classroom Setup
- What Is Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
- Built-in and Integrated Manageability
Enterprise Manager Core Concepts
- Review Oracle Enterprise Manager architecture
- Security (high level)
- Controlling the Cloud Control Framework
- Viewing Log Files and Trace Files
- Self-Monitoring and Maintenance
- Backup and Recovery: Repository, OMS and OMA, Software Library
Targets Setup
- Groups
- Targets discovery (review)
- Administration Hierarchy
- Target Properties
Oracle Cloud In Your IT Ecosystem
- Describe how Enterprise Manager Cloud Control establishes a connection to Oracle Cloud services
- Explore the new capabilities that are unlocked when Cloud Control is managing Oracle Cloud services
- Explore how Oracle Cloud services can be managed and why Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a superior choice
- Describe the benefits of having Oracle Cloud services in your IT Ecosystem
Roles and Privileges
- Privileges
- Privileges and Roles Uses
- Who can define Roles and Privileges
- Roles
Monitoring Standards
- Define monitoring standards
- Setting and using metric thresholds
- Using Monitoring Templates and templates collection
Managing Events and Incidents
- Describe the processing priority of rules and notifications
- Corrective Actions
- Define and manage incidents
- Monitor problems (including incidents flooding)
- Metric Thresholds and Settings
- Use incident rule sets
- Distinguish between incidents and problems
- Incidents Dashboard
Using Notifications, Blackouts and Brownouts
- Brownouts
- Monitoring Service
- Blackouts
- Define Blackouts and Brownouts, benefits
- Metric Extensions
- Receiving Alerts and Notifications
Using the Job System
- Core Concepts and Tasks: what is new in EM 13c
- Create and manage jobs of different types
- Enable job notifications
- Creating a Multi-Task Job
- Use the job library
- Understand job privileges
- Distinguish predefined jobs for your user-defined ones
- View job activity
Managing Systems and Services
- Discuss the use of beacons
- Viewing the System Topology
- Define and monitor the availability of a service
- Specifying Service Level Rule Elements
- Define and administer systems
- Workflow for Systems and Services
- Define and monitor service levels
- Define and create services, service types
Patching and Provisioning
- Software library review
- Provisioning and patching
- Use of Deployment Procedure Manager
- Software life-cycle management
- Deployment procedures and use cases
- Software patching: modes and workflow
- Bare metal provisioning
- Software Upgrades
Managing Configurations
- Viewing Configurations
- Configuration topology
- Searching the Enterprise Configuration
- What Is Configuration Management?
- Comparing Configurations
Managing Compliance
- Compliance Management
- Describe the predefined compliance functionality
- Point out the doc Oracle® Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Oracle Database Compliance Standards
- Assign compliance standards to targets
- Define compliance management: framework, standards, and rules
- View the results: score and importance
Producing and Using EM Reports Using BI Publisher
- Reporting on Targets
- Information Publisher vs BIP: IP deprecated
- Publish Enterprise Manager Reports
- Workflow for Creating Reports
- Schedule, save, and email reports
- Using Oracle-Provided BIP Reports
- BIP intro and configuration basics