OEM 19c | Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 19c

Course Objectives

Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly-experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom. Working within in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

• Use Cloud Control to organize your managed enterprise.
• Describe roles and privileges.
• Monitor the overall performance and health of your managed system.
• Manage incidents and set up notifications.
• Use the Job System to automate commonly performed tasks.
• Patch and provision new systems.
• View, search, and compare configurations.
• Explain compliance policies and evaluate policy violations.
• Create and use Cloud Control reports.

Need different skills or topics?  If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate.  We offer additional Oracle, database, scripting, administration and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs.

Course Prerequisites

This course provides and introduction to OEM for experienced Administrators, Database Administrators and Systems Administrators.

Take Before: Attendees should have skills equivalent to or should have attended this course as a pre-requisite:

• TTOR20519  Oracle 19c Database Administration I (Oracle DBA I)

Please see the Related Courses tab for specific Pre-Requisite courses, Related Courses that offer similar skills or topics, and next-step Learning Path recommendations.

Course Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

1. Introduction

• Describe Enterprise Manager Cloud Control as a single point of management and explain the benefits it provides
• Describe the course structure and its relationship with other courses
• Explain the system configuration for the course practices

2. Cloud Control Core Concepts

• Confirm your understanding of the Cloud Control architecture
• Explore the Enterprise Manager interface

3. Organizing Targets into Groups

• Define and distinguish Enterprise Manager groups
• Describe the benefits of using groups
• Explain target properties and how they relate to groups
• Create various types of groups
• Set up a monitoring hierarchy

4. Oracle Cloud in Your IT Ecosystem

• Identify the Oracle Cloud services that can be managed by Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• Describe how Enterprise Manager Cloud Control manages Oracle Cloud services
• List the operations that Enterprise Manager Cloud Control enables between on-premises targets and Oracle Cloud services

5. Cloud Control Access

• Identify how access to Cloud Control targets is controlled
• Define roles and privileges and how they relate to groups
• Distinguish between various types of roles
• Describe target credentials and their types

6. Monitoring

• Explain the monitoring infrastructure and the process of creating standards for monitoring your enterprise
• Identify out-of-the-box monitoring settings
• Customize metric settings
• Create and apply monitoring templates and template collections, and relate them to Administration Groups
• Describe metric extensions

7. Managing Events and Incidents

• Describe the use of events, incidents, and problems in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• Access Incident Manager to manage events, incidents, and problems
• Perform incident lifecycle operations

8. Responding to Events, Incidents, and Problems

9. Using the Job System

• Define and describe jobs and related terms
• Explain the difference between job steps, executions, and job runs
• Distinguish predefined jobs from customizable jobs
• Create and manage jobs of different types
• View job activity
• Use the job library

10. Managing Systems and Services

11. Patching and Provisioning

• Define software lifecycle management
• Describe the different roles and responsibilities
• Define provisioning, patching, and the Software Library
• Review configuration of the Software Library
• Use deployment procedures for provisioning and patching automation
• Patch software
• Define bare metal provisioning

12. Managing Configurations

• Explain the need for configuration management
• Describe configuration management
• View configurations of managed targets
• Compare configurations of managed targets
• View the configuration summary for managed targets
• Enable drift and consistency tracking
• Use change activity planning

13. Managing Compliance

• Define compliance management: framework, standards, rules, and facets
• Describe the predefined compliance standards
• Assign compliance standards to targets
• Explain the compliance evaluation method
• Analyze compliance results

14. Using the Cloud Control Reporting Framework

• Explain the basics of BI Publisher reporting
• View and customize out-of-the-box reports
• Create custom reports
• Schedule reports

Course Materials

Student Materials & Lab Environment  All course software (limited versions, for course use only), courseware files or course notes (as applicable), labs / data sets and solutions (as applicable) are provided for you in our “easy access / no install required” high-speed remote lab environment. Our dedicated live tech team works with every student to ensure everyone is set up with working access and ready to go prior to every course start date, ensuring a smooth delivery and great hands-on experience. All your coursework can be accessed or downloaded after class, so you never lose your work or materials. Please ask for details.