Oracle has promised to deliver new, wide-ranging management functionality for Oracle Applications as well as third-party applications.
Today Enterprise Manager 10g is about managing customer-built applications running on Oracle and non-Oracle databases and middleware. What Oracle promises to do is enhance management and monitoring of Oracle E-Business Suite, its PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Siebel environments. It said support for additional packaged applications will follow.
The Oracle Application Management Pack for PeopleSoft Enterprise is planned for availability in Q4 of 2006, while the remaining Oracle Application Management Packs are planned for availability in spring of 2007.
Oracle said the software, when launched, will be the only offering of its kind to deliver, comprehensive management functionality from the operating system through the application layer regardless of the underlying infrastructure all the way to the end-user. It said this capability helps to drive down enterprise systems management costs and improve business results through higher quality of service.
Oracle Applications and third-party application customers will have a single solution at their disposal to manage their applications and underlying systems comprehensively, said Jay Rossiter, Oracle vp of system management products. With a consolidated view of their entire environment, customers will be better able to identify and resolve application availability and performance issues quickly and accurately, resulting in improved service quality.
The enhanced capabilities will offer lifecycle management of an application deployment including service level management, application performance management, configuration management, and change automation, the company said.
Oracle claims that the application performance management features will enable administrators to monitor the entire application environment, proactively measure the real users’ experience, and identify the root cause of problems regardless of where they occur in the application stack.
Administrators will also benefit from Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g’s monitoring and service level management features including alerts, automatic performance data collection and trending, blackout windows and templates, and lights-out monitoring to provide total system service monitoring for the PeopleSoft Enterprise application stack.
A graphical topology display of a PeopleSoft Enterprise environment will be available to outline the relationship between the various PeopleSoft Enterprise components. With this view, administrators can manage and monitor the entire domain of PeopleSoft Enterprise servers as a single system as opposed to managing servers individually.
Finally Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g’s web-based console will provide a more intuitive, user interface with step-by-step guidance for common tasks to improve ease-of-use. Log management has been centralized so that administrators can view specific logs with the option of searching, viewing or exporting them to their local machine, while logs can also be purged or archived either individually or via a scheduled job.
