This document summarizes the top 10 features for database administrators (DBAs) in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. It discusses features such as database lifecycle management, real-time database operations monitoring, the EM Command Line Interface (EMCLI), ASH analytics, backup and recovery improvements, pluggable database support, Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) enhancements, and database-as-a-service capabilities. The presentation was given by Leighton Nelson, an Oracle DBA of over 10 years who works at Mercy, a large Catholic health system.

1. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud
Control 12c
Top 10 Features for DBAs
Leighton L. Nelson

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. New Features Overview
• What’s in the box?

6. New Features Overview
Lots of new stuff.
Login page highlights
some key features plus
new features.

7. 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

8. 1/ Database Lifecycle Management
• Database Patching & Updates
• Manual patching is time consuming and confusing
• PSUs/CPUs
• One-offs
• Opatch
• Error Prone

9. 1/ Database Lifecycle Management
• Database Upgrades
• Upgrades can be scary
• Pre-requisites
• Backups
• Down-time
• Cross-fingers

10. 1/ Database Lifecycle Management
• Database Patching & Updates
• Use Patch Plans
• Out of Place Patching support
• Integrates with MOS

11. 1/ Database Lifecycle Management

12. 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

13. 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

14. 2/ Real-Time Database Operations
Monitoring
• SQL Monitoring

15. 3/ EM Command Line Interface
• Turbo charges EM!
• Enables Script
Automation
• Install from OEM
Console
• Standard or Advanced
with Scripting Option

16. 3/ EM Command Line Interface

17. 3/ EM Command Line Interface
• emcli help
• emcli verb help

18. 4/ ASH Analytics
• Multi-dimensional view of ASH data
• DB-Time Analysis
• Top Activity +
• Resize sample window
• More dimensions
• Load map tree

19. 4/ ASH Analytics

20. 5/ Backup & Recovery
When I ask the sysadmins, “The backups are making it
to tape, right?”
-DBA Reactions

21. 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

22. 5/ Backup & Recovery

23. 6/ Pluggable Database Support
• Oracle Multi-tenant support
• Pluggable databases (PDB)
• Container databases (CDB)

24. 7/ Compare Period ADDM
“Why is the database slower today
than yesterday?”
Compares database activity over
two periods of time

25. 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

26. 8/ Real-Time ADDM
Real-time ADDM
Active Reports

27. 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?”

28. 9/ Database-as-a-Service
• DBCA Template
• RMAN Backup
• Storage Snap Clone (NetApp/Sun ZFS)

29. 9/ Database-as-a-Service
• Database-as-a-Service

30. 9/ Database-as-a-Service
• Database-as-a-Service

31. When the SAN admin says, “Nah,
nothing changed recently.”

32. 10/ Extensibility (3rd
Party Plug-ins)
• VMware Plug-in (Blue Medora)
• Storage Plug-ins
• NetApp
• EMC VMAX
• Amazon AWS Plug-in

33. 10/ Extensibility (3rd
Party Plug-ins)

34. There’s more…
• Corrective Actions
• Metric Extensions
• Job System
• Incident Management
• Administration Groups
• Configuration Search
• Compliance Standards

35. Thank You
• Questions?

36. Contact Information
http://blogs.griddba.com
linkedin.com/pub/leighton-nelson/4/6b8/a7a
@leight0nn
leighton.nelson@mercy.net