The document provides an overview of Oracle Cloud Control 12c, detailing its new features, simplified installation process, and deployment options for agents. It highlights improvements over previous versions, such as a more user-friendly interface and additional monitoring capabilities for various components. Key enhancements include better integration with Oracle support, service management features, and increased resource requirements for installation.

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Cloud Control 12c
Pierre Sicot
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2. Cloud Control 12c
Agenda
Agenda
i. Introduction
ii. Installation
iii. Agent deployment
iv. Architecture
v. New Features
vi. Core messages
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3. Cloud Control 12c
Introduction
 Grid Control became Cloud Control (by the way, beta releases
were named Grid Control 12g)
 Cloud Control 12c is the Oracle Management platform, also called
“Enterprise Manager” Cloud Control 12c
 Next generation of the Grid Control 10g/11g
 It allows to operate/monitor the following components and much
more:
 Databases & Middleware infrastructures
 Exadata infrastructures
 Monitoring of SQL Server
 Oracle VM infrastructures
 etc.
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4. Cloud Control 12c
Interface presentation
 Cloud Control 12c demo
 Environment
 Oracle Cloud Control 12c
 Oracle Enterprise Linux
 Demo 1
 New login and console “Welcome” pages
 New menus
 Configurable layout
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Agenda
Agenda
i. Introduction
ii. Installation
iii. Agent deployment
iv. Architecture
v. New Features
vi. Core messages
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6. Cloud Control 12c
Installation
 Globally the installation has become much easier
 All components are installed smoothly in one step:
 JAVA , Weblogic Server, OMS
 The only “surprise” comes from the Oracle installation “zip” file
you download from Oracle Technet
 The “unzip” command provided by Oracle Enterprise Linux is not
able to extract these files! The installation crashes!
 On AIX 6.1 you have to use the unzip utility and not to use the
unzip_AIX downloaded from Oracle Technet
 More details on: www.dbi-services.com/blog
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7. Cloud Control 12c
Installation
 Enterprise Manager 12c binaries are bigger than 11g version
 JDK, WebLogic and EM 12c are installed by a single installer
 Installer 12c needs less inputs and has less install screens than in
previous versions (10g/11g)
EM 12c EM11g EM 10g
Nb of screens 8 13 21
Nb of inputs 12 30 36
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8. Cloud Control 12c
Installation
 EM 12c needs more resources
12c 11g
Memory Disk Memory Disk
OMS 4 Gb 7 Gb 3 Gb 6 Gb
Agent 512 Mb 1 Gb 512 Mb 850 Mb
Repository 2 Gb 50 Gb 2 Gb 50 Gb
(database)
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9. Cloud Control 12c
Installation
 A lot of pre-requisites checks during installation
12c 11g
Checking if Oracle software certified on the current O/S X X
Checking for required packages installed on the system X X
Checking whether required GLIBC installed on the system X X
Checking for sufficient disk space in TEMP location X X
Checking for sufficient disk space in Inventory location X X
Checking whether the software is compatible for current O/S X X
Checking for TZ region X -
Checking for sufficient physical memory X X
Checking for sufficient swap space X -
Checking for required ulimit value X X
Checking for the Hostname X X
Checking for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable X -
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10. Cloud Control 12c
Installation summary
 Installation of Cloud Control 12c became much easier than Grid
Control 11g
 Weblogic Server fully integrated (no need to install a WLS server
before), even better no need to Patch!
 8 installation screens instead of 13 (for Grid Control 11g)
 Lots of prerequisites checks
 Grid Control 12c needs more resources
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Agenda
Agenda
i. Introduction
ii. Installation
iii. Agent deployment
iv. Architecture
v. New Features
vi. Core messages
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12. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment
 Several methods are available to deploy the agents 
 Setup discovery using IP scan (not agent based)
 Multiple Target Discovery on single host (agent based)
 Add targets manually
 Silent mode using emcli
 RPM method (only on Linux)
 Agent 12c not yet available on Windows (Q4 2012)
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13. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 Agent deployment methods
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14. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 To deploy the agent on a target, we have first to discover a host
manually :
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15. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 The deployment procedure uses named credentials
 Oracle uses /usr/local/bin/sudo, a symbolic link solves the
problem
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16. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 An older release of the agent cannot be present on the system,
you have to un-install or remove it from inventory
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17. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 Remote prerequisites checks are performed:
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18. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 Finally the agent is configured on the target host:
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19. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 Once the agent is installed on the future managed host we can
add non host targets:
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20. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment GUI
 The agent directory architecture is new :
Agent 12c Agent11g
<agent_base_directory> <agent_base_directory>
|_____core |_____ agentpatch
|_____12.1.0.1.0 |_____ bin
|_____plugins |_____ ccr
|_____plugins.txt |_____ config
|_____plugins.txt.status ……
|_____agent_inst |_____ srvm
|_____sbin |_____ sysman
|_____agentimage.properties |_____ xdk
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21. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment silent mode
 Silent mode is an alternative to add an agent using the add host
target wizard:
1. Configure emcli on the OMS host
2. Download the agent software on the OMS server using emcli
get_agentimage
3. Transfer the zip file to the future managed host where you want to
install the agent
4. Configure the agent.rsp response file
5. Install the agent using agentdeploy.sh
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22. Cloud Control 12c
Deployment RPM
 With Linux it is possible to use a RPM based installation
 Mandatory to have the /usr/lib/oracle directory and the rpm-build
package installed
 We use emcli on the OMS host to generate a RPM image :
emcli get_agentimage_rpm -destination=/tmp -
platform="Linux x86-64" -version="12.1.0.1.0“
1. We copy and uncompress the rpm generated file on the future
managed host, and configure /usr/lib/oracle/agent.properties
2. We run /etc/init.d/config.pl to install and configure the agent
3. We have to create the /usr/lib/oracle directory with the correct
permissions on the future managed host
4. The rpm-build package must also be installed
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23. Cloud Control 12c
Agent 12c summary
 Deployment to multiple servers in single step
1. Remote prerequisite checks
2. Automatically register agent with OMS
3. Retry/continue from failure
4. Control operations from GUI and EMCLI
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24. Cloud Control 12c
Agent 12c summary
 Consolidated summary of agent 12c from agent home page
1. Performance, usage and resource consumption metrics
2. Configuration information
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Agenda
Agenda
i. Introduction
ii. Installation
iii. Agent deployment
iv. Architecture
v. New Features
vi. Core messages
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26. Cloud Control 12c
Graphical User Interface
 New GUI (AJAX based, no more html based or JAVA based)
 New layout , based on (contextual) menus:
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27. Cloud Control 12c
Graphical User Interface
 Configurable layout (some pages) allowing to configure the
interface according to the user profile or needs
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28. Cloud Control 12c
Service Management
 Service Management Oriented features and layout (i.e. Incident
and problem management), see demo later on
 Better integration with My Oracle Support (i.e. ORA-XXX errors
are directly linked to corresponding My Oracle Support notes)
 Improved help and documentation
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29. Cloud Control 12c
Target monitoring – Admin. Groups
 Administration Groups and Template Collections improve the
management of targets and eases the monitoring strategy
 Administration Groups (improvement of Grid 11g Target Groups)
can be defined in hierarchies (properties of the parents inherited
by the Childs)
Source Oracle
documentation
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30. Cloud Control 12c
Target monitoring – Templ. Collections
 Templates collections are composed of “monitoring templates” (of
several types), “compliance standards” and “cloud policies”
 Both together provide default monitoring and management
settings to the deployed targets
 They allow to remain targets in sync (i.e. no monitoring metrics
differences)
 Template collections can be affected to any level of the
Administration Group Hierarchy
 45 default Oracle monitoring templates are provided with Cloud
Control 12c (HTTP server, agent, Weblogic, aso …)
 Several templates can be “loaded” within one template collection
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31. Cloud Control 12c
Service Management integration
 Cloud Control 12c introduces some basics of the Service
Management requirement
 Incident, problem management are covered based on the adrci
naming convention : “ORA-XXXX is a problem
 Possibility to assign, monitor, acknowledge incidents
 Possibility to create custom incidents
 Possibility to create custom incident views
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32. Cloud Control 12c
Service Management integration
 Cloud Control 12c demo
 Environment
 Oracle Cloud Control 12c
 Oracle Enterprise Linux
 Demo 2
 Incident generation
 Incident assignment
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33. Cloud Control 12c
Top new features
 Brand new interface
 Monitoring/management of additional products (i.e. Exadata)
 Improved security features with new privileges and fine grained
security policies
 Creation of Oracle Database from Cloud Control 12c
 Patch Oracle Database with minimum downtime
 Better integration of Oracle VM 3.0
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34. Cloud Control 12c
Top new features
 Compare ADDM periods
 ASH analytics permits to dig more with better graphics
 New concept for User Defined Metrics called : "Metrics extensions"
allowing you to create full-fledged metrics for a multitude of
target types
 Multi Channel Access (iPhone, iPod)
 Service Management Integration
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Agenda
Agenda
i. Introduction
ii. Installation
iii. Agent deployment
iv. Architecture
v. New Features
vi. Core messages
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36. Cloud Control 12c
Core messages
+ Cloud Control 12c is a real new milestone for the
Enterprise Manager product suite
+ GUI improvement, usage of menus and configurable pages
+ Service management orientation
+ Oracle support integration
+ Many new functionalities
- New product which will need time to get stabilized
- Cost of several packs
- High resource usage compared to 10g and 11g
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37. Cloud Control 12c
References
 Some very interesting References to get started with Cloud
Control 12c
 Basic Cloud Control 12c installation :
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/12c/
CloudControl12cR1InstallationOnOracleLinux5And6.php
 TechNet Oracle :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/
enterprise-manager/overview/index.html
 Online Demos on YouTube! accessible from TechNet :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/em12c-screenwatches-512013.html
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38. Cloud Control 12c
Any Questions? Please Do Ask!
„Have fun with Cloud Control 12c!“
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