New Features of 12c Database Plugin
Ø Oracle
Real Applications Clusters Management Enhancements
Enterprise Manager Cloud Control can be
used to monitor and manage Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC)
Ø Manage Automatic Storage Management Clusters as a Target
We can now
monitor and manage clustered Automatic Storage Management (ASM) instances as a
single clustered target. This includes discovery, monitoring, configuration,
and administration operations at the cluster level.
Ø Backup
and Restore Enhancements
The new Group backup feature in Enterprise
Manager Cloud Control provides the ability to backup multiple databases, Oracle
homes, and file systems in one operation. Centrally maintained backup
configurations can be created, containing uniform database and file backup
settings that are applied to all of the objects in a Group backup.
Ø Streams
and XStreams Support
Streams and XStreams configurations can now
be managed and monitored using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.
Ø Active
Session History Analytics
Active Session History (ASH) Analytics
enables a performance specialist to explore the different performance
attributes of a database session at any point in time. With the ability to
create filters on various dimensions, the DBA can not only identify performance
issues but also obtain a good understanding of various performance patterns,
workload behavior, and system resource usage.
Ø Emergency
Monitoring
The Emergency Monitoring feature enables
the database administrator to connect to an unresponsive database through a
special proprietary mechanism and diagnose performance issues when normal mode
connection is not possible.
Ø Real-time
Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
Real-Time Automatic Database Diagnostic
Monitor (ADDM) is an innovative way to analyze problems in extremely slow or
hung databases, which would have traditionally required a database restart.
Ø Compare
Period ADDM
The administrator can compare performance
across any two periods of time and determine the root cause of why performance
in one period was different than in the other.
Ø New
Active Reports
Three new Active Reports have been added in
this release: ASH Analytics, Real-Time ADDM, and Compare Period ADDM. These are
interactive reports that can be used for offline analysis
Ø Data
Subsetting
Data Subsetting provides the ability to
create a smaller sized copy of the original production data that can be given
to developers for testing. While it is a data subset, the referential
relationships are preserved so that the data set is complete.
Ø Reversible
Data Masking
You can use reversible masking, which
relies on encryption and decryption algorithms, to enable user data encryption
deterministically, as a regular expression in a format that you choose.
Ø Real
Application Testing and Data Masking Integration
Real Application Testing and Data Masking
integration provides users with the ability to perform secure testing without
compromising data security and compliance regulations.
Ø Segregation
of Duties
Enterprise Manager now supports the separation
of roles specifically for provisioning into Designer and Operator. The Designer
role corresponds to administrators who define provisioning standards. The
Operator role typically corresponds to administrators who do actual software
provisioning. Operators can be less experienced administrators.
Ø Provisioning
Profiles
A provisioning profile is a read-only
snapshot of an existing database environment that can be used as a starting
point to provision a new database. The snapshot can capture the Grid infrastructure
(Cluster ware and Automatic Storage Management), homes, database homes, and
Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) templates. This can all be stored in
the Software Library for later use.
Ø Improved
Troubleshooting for Deployment Procedures
Deployment Procedures are integrated with
the Incident Framework, where incidents are automatically created for critical
failures. An incident triggers dump scripts to collect debug information, which
can then be packaged in an archive and sent to Oracle Support for analysis.
Ø Automatic
Storage Management Cluster File System Support
Enterprise Manager now supports Automatic
Storage Management Cluster File System Support (ACFS) Security and Encryption
features. ACFS encryption enables users to store data on disk in an encrypted
format. Enterprise Manager users who are ACFS administrators are now able to
use these features to implement and manage security on file system objects
stored in ACFS.
