Oracle has wrapped the application configuration software that came to it when it bought mValent at the start of the year into Oracle Enterprise Manager to extend the configuration management capabilities of its applications controller.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is a set of systems management tools used to monitor and automate database and application administration.
The addition of the mValent programs means the system can better discover and track IT assets and components to quickly remediate configuration issues, the company said.
It comes with more than 100 Oracle and non-Oracle configuration management templates that support most popular enterprise applications, but developers can also build their own customised frames.
“Tracking and managing dependencies between application components and their associated configurations are some of the most extreme challenges in today’s IT environments” said Richard Sarwal, Oracle senior VP. Oracle Enterprise Manager brings a level of control to the job.
The system builds on mValent’s approach of using software models of the application infrastructure along with some agentless technology to detect what assets exist, to manage changes to those assets, and to release key updates to those assets in a controlled and safe way.
As an IT service dependency mapping tool the product would sit alongside a configuration management database, to offer the same sort of functions as do various products provided by BMC, CA, EMC, HP, IBM, Tideway or Veritas.
The move to integrate with the mValent software effectively provides Oracle Enterprise Manager with a means of making application system comparisons on the fly, using the mValent component to drive real-time configuration updates and reconciliation processes.
