Summary

In large and complex environments, the provisioning process if performed manually can easily take up to 50 percent of an administrator's time. There are many disparate pieces of hardware and software that need to be provisioned using different procedures. During the course of this chapter, we have seen how a great deal of the provisioning process can be automated by Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, using the powerful gold images, provisioning profiles, and deployment procedures. This will greatly reduce the provisioning effort and save the valuable time of the administrator.

A Provisioning Designer, normally a Senior DBA in the database engineering department, can create a locked-down procedure that can be published to the Provisioning Operator, who may be the Junior DBA. The Provisioning Operator can then seamlessly perform the actual action of provisioning without being able to change the locked-down inputs, and new databases can thus be provisioned as almost exact replicas...