Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c (OEM 13c)

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