Oracle Enterprise manager cloud control 12c : managing data center chaos ; get to grips with the latest innovative techniques for managing data center chaos including performance tuning, security compliance, patching and more / Porus Homi Havewala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Havewala, Porus Homi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Chaotic behavior in systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

HAVEWALA PORUS HOMI: Porus Homi Havewala works as the Senior Manager (for database management) in the Enterprise Technology Program Office of Oracle Corporation, based in Singapore, and specializes in Oracle Enterprise Manager. He is a double Oracle Certified Master (OCM) in 10g and 11g, as well as the first Oracle employee ACE in the country. He was awarded the prestigious Oracle ACE Director title by Oracle HQ in 2008. There are less than 150 Oracle ACE Directors in the entire world and Poruswas the very first Oracle ACE and ACE Director in Singapore a recognition of his outstanding achievements in the Oracle world. Porus has had extensive experience in Oracle technology since 1994; this includes him working as a Senior Production DBA, Principal Database Consultant, Database Architect, E-Business Technical DBA, Development DBA, and Database Designer and Modeler (using Oracle Designer). He has published numerous articles on Oracle Enterprise Manager on OTN, and has created http: //enterprise-manager. blogspot. com, one of the world's first blogs dedicated to Enterprise Manager (with Oracle Press Credentials). Porus is also the author of the book, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Rampant TechPress which was published in 2010. He started in the IT industry in the mid-1980s as a Turbo-C programmer in India and then as a dBase/FoxPro Developer in Australia. In the early 1990s he wrote a book on Microsoft FoxPro, which was his first published technical work. He entered the heady world of Oracle technology from 1994 as an Oracle DBA/Developer (using Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, and Oracle Designer). In Telstra, the largest telecommunications company in Australia, Porus was the Senior Database Consultant in the central DBA team for a number of years and was responsible for database standards, database architecture, and the architecture, setup, and management of the first production Enterprise Manager Grid Control site in the world. He next worked in Oracle ACS India (Mumbai), and then with an Oracle Platinum Partner, S&I Systems in Singapore, before rejoining Oracle in the same city. Porus is an enthusiast for Oracle technology, especially Oracle Enterprise Manager, on which he has conducted popular seminars and webinars for large MNCs, and implemented this powerful enterprise toolset. The following is a full list of his published technical articles and white papers on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). A couple of these articles were in the most popular OTN article list in 2009. The OTN is the world's largest community of developers, DBAs, and architects. Published white papers on OTN include: Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Managing Oracle Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Published technical articles on OTN include: Using Grid Control with Filer Snapshotting Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Architecture for Very Large Sites Oracle RMAN Backups: Pushing the Easy Button Patch a Thousand Databases, Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Easy Disaster Proof Production with Grid Control Using Oracle GoldenGate for Real-Time Data Integration Mask Your Secrets Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Manage Mass Provisioning Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Overview of Oracle EM Management Packs Provision Your Oracle RAC Systems Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c For the Internet links to the articles and white papers, please see the blog entry: http: //enterprise-manager. blogspot. sg/2012/11/latest-list-ofpublished-white-papers. html In early 2009, Porus was also voted leader of the Oracle RAC Special Interest Group (SIG) in Singapore, a rotating position he held for 2 years.

Summary:

This book is a practical step-by-step tutorial with screenshots for carrying out tasks showing you how to manage and administer your data center with Oracle Enterprise Manager. It is packed with best practices and tips that will help you benefit from the author's extensive experience of working with Oracle Enterprise Manager since at least a decade, and combined with his 25+ years IT industry experience. If you are a Data Center, IT or Database Team manager who wants to take advantage of the automation and compliance benefits of Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control, then Oracle Enterprise Mana

Contents:

Preface; Chaos at Data Centers; Team Effort; Common solutions used in data centers; Summary; Enter Oracle Cloud Control; The Grid - where the cloud came from; Overview of version 12c; Striking new features in 12c; Bonus sections; Ease the Chaos with Performance Management; Laying the foundation; Top Activity; Testing infrastructure changes; SQL Monitoring; Doctor in the database; Real-Time ADDM; Compare Period ADDM; Active Session History (ASH) analytics; Summary; Ease the Chaos with Configuration Management and Security Compliance; Lifecycle management; Auto discovery; Inventory

Detailed configurationSearch Capability; History and compares; Topology; Custom configurations; Client configurations; Compliance; Compliance library; Configuration and compliance reporting; Summary; Ease the Chaos with Automated Provisioning; Lifecycle management; First steps: Software Library; Provisioning library; Provisioning profiles; Deployment procedures; Customization; Lock down; Configuration details; Compliance standards; Granting permissions to the Provisioning Operator; Running EM as the Provisioning Operator; Running the Procedure; Other possibilities; Summary

Ease the Chaos with Automated PatchingRecommended patches; Patch plan; Out-of-place patching; Pre-patching analysis; Deployment; Plan template; Patching roles; Refreshes; Other patching procedures; Reporting; Summary; Ease the Chaos with Change Management; Change management; Schema comparison; Schema Change Plan; Schema synchronization; Synchronization Rules and Mode; Synchronization results; Executing the Synchronization; Synchronization without a change plan; Data comparison; Continuous comparison; Use cases; Summary; Ease the Chaos with Test Data Management; Test Data Management

Creating packagesCreating the Application Data Model; Data subsetting; Applications; Table Rules; Rule Parameters; Space Estimates; Pre/Post Subset Script; Generate Subset; Benefits and capabilities; Summary; Ease the Chaos with Data Masking; Finding sensitive data; Creating data masking definitions; New capabilities; Adding columns to mask; Defining the masking format; Advanced options; Generated Script; Scheduling the job; Testing the results; Format library; Benefits and capabilities; Summary; Ease the Chaos with Exadata Management; Meeting the challenges; Discovering Exadata

Adding the hostsAdding non-host targets; Adding the cluster and databases; Monitoring and managing Exadata; Database machine resource utilization; Exadata grid; Infiniband network; Database performance pages; Total capabilities; Summary; Real-life Examples and Case Studies, and It's a Wrap: The Future is the Cloud; Case study - telecom; Case study - pharmaceutical; Case study - computer manufacturer; Case study - online store; Case study - financial institution; Case study - university; Future of cloud computing; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781283938075

1283938073

9781849684798

1849684790

OCLC:

823719036