OEM Grid Control and the SOA Management Pack

The latest Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Grid Control 12c is Oracle's monitoring and management product of choice for the majority of Oracle software and applications. By leveraging OEM Grid Control, you can monitor and manage all your Oracle and non-Oracle software through a single, centralized console. OEM Grid Control is licensed separately from Oracle SOA Suite.

OEM Grid Control should not be confused with Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control or other consoles such as Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control (included with older versions of the Oracle Application Server).

An agent (specifically, the Oracle Management Agent) is installed on every server you wish to monitor, and data on the installed server and operating system is collected and reported back to the central repository (specifically, the Oracle Management Server) at regular intervals. It is through the Oracle Management Server (OMS) that you can log...