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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos

You're reading from   Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos Take back control of your data center with this practical step-by-step tutorial to using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Real-life examples and case studies help you manage rationally rather than through day-to-day firefighting.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684781
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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PORUS HOMI HAVEWALA PORUS HOMI HAVEWALA
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12: Managing Data Center Chaos
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Chaos at Data Centers 2. Enter Oracle Cloud Control FREE CHAPTER 3. Ease the Chaos with Performance Management 4. Ease the Chaos with Configuration Management and Security Compliance 5. Ease the Chaos with Automated Provisioning 6. Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching 7. Ease the Chaos with Change Management 8. Ease the Chaos with Test Data Management 9. Ease the Chaos with Data Masking 10. Ease the Chaos with Exadata Management 11. Real-life Examples and Case Studies, and It's a Wrap: The Future is the Cloud Index

Chapter 6. Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching

We have seen how the provisioning capabilities of the Oracle Enterprise Manager's Database Lifecycle Management (DBLM) Pack enable you to deploy fully patched Oracle Database homes and databases, as replicas of the gold copy in the Software Library of Enterprise Manager. However, nothing placed in production should be treated as static. Software changes in development cycles, enhancements take place, or security/functional issues are found. For almost anything in the IT world, new patches are bound to be released. These will also need to be applied to production, testing, reporting, staging, and development environments in the data center on an ongoing basis.

For the database side of things, Oracle releases quarterly a combination of security fixes known as the Critical Patch Update (CPU) . Other patches are bundled together and released every quarter in the form of a Patch Set Update (PSU), and this also includes the CPU for that quarter...

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