Well this Oracle Open World thing got started today and I already have some lessons learned… First, most important, register early and get accommodations in San Francisco. I am staying in Berkeley CA, and taking BART to the conference, which is fine but on Sunday the red line from Berkeley to SF does not run and requires a transfer before crossing under, yes under, the bay. So, because of the additional time, I missed the first session, Enterprise Manager Grid Control--Moments of Truth.
The second session, DBA Fusion--An Introduction to Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g was interesting. Ray Smith from Portland General Electric gave a presentation on his experiences of 11g Grid Control. Some highlights:
· Oracle is really taking this Grid Control serious as a management tool for enterprise datacenter management. I had heard this last year at the 10g Grid Control training and it was very to the Oracle product line.
· Don’t do try and have the DBA group install, manage and monitor the Fusion Weblogic middle tier. This should be done by the middleware group, ( Dan, are you ready to install Weblogic :-) This really requires a person with Java experience to take control
· During the install try as much as possible to keep the defaults for the names, ( i.e. Middleware for the MIDDLEWARE_HOME name) and directory structure. This will help when talking with Oracle support on problems
· As with the database software, or any Oracle software, apply patches when finished after the install.. Weblogic uses a thing called “Smart Update Installer” Good thing it is smart…
· There was some discussion after the session about the memory utilization of the application server and keeping the application tier separate from the database repository. We are currently not doing this in the 10g Grid environment but then it was just the DBA group that did it all.
After the session, I thought it might be good to get started in the 11g Grid ( Fusion Middleware) by installing it in a VM and pointing the development / test environments to it. Then direct the production to it. I hope to get to the Demo grounds to view some actual “stuff” with Oracle 11g Grid Control tomorrow.
Well, just wanted to get in the habit updating this blog as much as possible with notes.
Hope it is found useful..
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