Configuration management

In the last chapter, we learned about configuration management and how Enterprise Manager helps to manage configurations for IT resources of your enterprise. The configuration management features offered by Enterprise Manager help to reduce manual and error prone tasks; thereby freeing WebLogic administrators to focus on more proactive maintenance activities. Many administrators use ad-hoc processes such as spreadsheets to track assets in their IT environment, and that leads to several issues and administrators have no way to enforce policies.

Asset tracking

Enterprise Manager helps you to automate the asset tracking by collecting WebLogic Server configuration files at regular intervals and stores them in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) as a part of the repository database. This helps you to track any changes in your WebLogic configurations by allowing you to compare two different versions of configurations for the same server or two different servers...