Oracle Management Cloud

Introduction to Oracle Management Cloud

We have been seeing so many products of Oracle off late. A new suite from Oracle named Oracle Management Cloud is introduced.

Please do not get confused with cloud offerings of Oracle. This is a management suite and not any Cloud solution on the first note.

What is Oracle Management Cloud then?

Oracle Management Cloud is a suite of integrated monitoring, management, and analytics cloud offerings. What makes it more unique is it supports on-premise environments, Oracle Cloud and other third party cloud environments (AWS, Microsoft Azure etc) as well. 

How does it work?

Oracle Management Cloud (Aka OMC in short) will extract monitoring data from the infrastructure using its multiple agents (Cloud Agent, Gateway Agent, APM Agent, Data Collector etc) and it collects metrics, logs from Database Server, Application server, Exadata, OEM and it analyzes existing data using machine language and thus helps to increase efficiency and maximize performance. It will further eliminate multiple information silos in end-user and infrastructure data, resolve application issues faster, and run IT like a business. 

In simple Oracle Management Cloud suite provide real-time monitoring, alerting, rapid diagnostics, operational insight, and business analytics.

What are offerings?

Oracle Application Performance Monitoring: Provides a platform for monitoring and managing applications.
Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring: Monitors the status and health of the entire IT infrastructure from a single platform and alerts administrators about issues.
Oracle Database Management: Monitors the health and performance of Autonomous Databases and on-premises Oracle Databases on a unified platform. 

Oracle Orchestration: Automates cloud and on-premises infrastructure and executes tasks by calling REST API or third-party automation framework.
Oracle IT Analytics: Provides a 360-degree insight into the performance, availability, and capacity of applications and infrastructure investments. 

Oracle Log Analytics: Monitors, aggregates, indexes, and analyzes log data from applications and infrastructure.  

How about Licensing?

Oracle Management Cloud offerings are categorized and available in three license editions, and we can select one or more license editions, based on our business requirements. 

 

Oracle Management Cloud – Standard Edition
Oracle Management Cloud – Enterprise Edition
Oracle Management Cloud – Log Analytics Edition
 

How are these licenses different?

1) Within Standard Edition, we get the following offerings:

Oracle Application Performance Monitoring: Provides a platform for monitoring and managing applications.
Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring: Monitors the status and health of the entire IT infrastructure from a single platform and alerts administrators about issues.
Oracle Database Management: Monitors the health and performance of Autonomous Databases and on-premises Oracle Databases on a unified platform.
 

Note: The data collected is retained for 14 days. 

2) Within Enterprise Edition, following are the offerings:

It includes all the offerings of Standard Edition (Oracle APM, Infrastructure Monitoring and Database Management) plus
Oracle Orchestration: Automates cloud and on-premises infrastructure and executes tasks by calling REST API or third-party automation framework.
Oracle IT Analytics: Provides a 360-degree insight into the performance, availability, and capacity of applications and infrastructure investments.
 

Note: The data collected is retained for 13 months. 

3) Within Oracle Log Analytics: Monitors, aggregates, indexes, and analyzes log data from applications and infrastructure.
 

Note : It does not include offerings from Standard and Enterprise Editions.

The most important, it is a cloud based solution. Easy and fast to configure and use.