1. ORACLE DATA SHEET
ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
RELEASE 12
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
TOOLS
Oracle offers tools that help manage an Oracle E-Business Suite
ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT system throughout its lifecycle. These tools reduce total cost of
FEATURES ARE DELIVERED
THROUGH THE FOLLOWING ownership and increase IT agility to respond to changing business
TOOLS:
needs. Release 12 enhances these tools to simplify management and
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
Grid Control is the next maintenance of Oracle Applications. This data sheet describes many
generation management
solution used for managing
of these enhancements, grouping them into the following categories:
business applications, end-
Installation; Monitoring and Administration; Maintenance; Cloning;
user services, and the entire
grid infrastructure. and Supportability.
Application Management
pack for Oracle E-Business
Suite extends Grid Control to
Installation
provide central monitoring and
cloning Automation for Oracle Oracle E-Business Suite’s lifecycle begins with installation via Rapid Install.
E-Business Suite, and links
Grid Control with Oracle The enhancements made to Rapid Install in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Applications Manager include:
• Oracle Applications
Manager is the system Simplified installation: The Rapid Install Wizard has been significantly
management tool built into enhanced to simplify the process of installation. By centralizing system
Oracle E-Business Suite,
providing monitoring,
configuration information, Rapid Install now makes multi-node installations
administration, diagnostic, Oracle E-Business Suite even easier than before
and maintenance capabilities
for a given E-Business Suite Ability to configure advanced topologies: Rapid Install facilitates the
environment. configuration of advanced topologies, such as those that use DMZs, by
• Oracle iSetup is a web-based
supporting the deployment of database nodes and middle tier nodes into
tool built into Oracle E-
Business Suite that enables different network domains.
migration and monitoring of
data throughout the Support sharing of a central technology stack: Rapid Install facilitates
application lifecycle Oracle installation of multiple Oracle E-Business suite nodes that share a central
iSetup enables faster
implementation of Oracle E-
technology stack as well as a central APPL_TOP. Such deployments simplify
Business Suite at lower risk. application maintenance and help reduce downtime.
• Rapid Install is a wizard that
enables you to easily install
Monitoring and Administration
and configure a complete,
functional Oracle E-Business Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, the Application Management Pack for
Suite system. Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Applications Manager, combine to provide a
• Rapid Clone is a tool used to
comprehensive approach to system monitoring and administration. From Oracle
create a complete or partial
copy of an Oracle E-Business Grid Control, multiple Oracle E-Business Suite systems can be monitored for
Suite system. Rapid Clone adherence to custom performance, configuration and security policies.
can be used to back up,
duplicate, or scale Oracle E- Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite
Business Suite systems.
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The Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite extends Oracle
Enterprise Manager Grid Control to include the following features:
Automatic Discovery of Oracle Applications: This feature gives Grid
Control the capability to discover Oracle E-Business Suite systems
automatically.
Configuration Management: The Application Management Pack for Oracle
E-Business Suite enables administrators to collect, compare, and search Oracle
E-Business Suite configuration details, such as patches applied, application
configuration files, technology stack inventory, concurrent processing
configuration, Workflow configuration, and more
System Topology Views: Grid Control provides system administrators the
ability to view the infrastructure service topology of the Oracle E-Business
Suite system. The topology view (as shown in Figure 1) lists the dependencies
between infrastructure services, key system components, and other services. In
the event of service failure, the potential causes (as identified by root cause
analysis), are highlighted in the topology view.
Figure 1: Topology View
JVM Usage Monitoring: Grid Control monitors JVM usage in the latest Java
technology employed by Oracle E-Business Suite.
Application Service Level Management: Application Management Pack for
E-Business Suite automatically provides service level reporting for the key
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Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure and application services. Service level
alerts can be configured to trigger based on thresholds set on performance and
availability metrics. Monitored infrastructure services include concurrent
processing, Oracle Forms, HTML-based applications, and Oracle Workflow.
The Application Management Pack for Oracle Applications also allows you to
record application transactions (both Forms and HTML-based) and schedule
playback for service level monitoring purposes.
Oracle E-Business Suite Home Page: Application Management Pack for
Oracle E-Business Suite provides a comprehensive view of the Applications
system, plus links to common administrative tasks in Oracle Applications.
Oracle Applications Manager
The enhancements made to Oracle Applications Manager include:
Enhanced User Interface: The Oracle Applications Manager Dashboard has
been enhanced to improve the monitoring of Oracle E-Business Suite in the
areas of performance and security:
o Performance: The enhanced Performance dashboard provides
administrators with key performance metrics related to online, batch, and
workflow activity. For customers using Oracle Real Application Clusters,
the dashboard shows these metrics distributed across RAC instances.
Additionally, system administrators can now subscribe to receive
automated alerts when concurrent requests run longer or wait longer than
specified thresholds.
o Security: An updated suite of diagnostic reports is now available within
the Security dashboard. These reports check the Oracle E-Business Suite
system configuration against Oracle’s recommended best practices, and
highlight possible security vulnerabilities.
Forms Monitoring: Oracle Applications Manager supports monitoring of the
Oracle Application Server components that provide Forms services in Release
12. Forms runtime process can be monitored, and detailed trace files can be
downloaded in HTML format.
Maintenance
Over the course of the Oracle E-Business Suite’s lifecycle, patches may be applied
to upgrade the Oracle E-Business Suite to the latest point release, to obtain product
enhancements, or to resolve known issues. The patch impact analysis feature within
Oracle Application Manager provides system administrators the ability to track
patches and understand their impact on the Oracle E-Business Suite system.
The key enhancements to patch impact analysis are as follows:
Ability to analyze impact of patches to customized files registered with the
system.
Ability for users to create a list of patches for analysis as a single set.
Ability to identify and merge multiple language patches
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DATA SCRAMBLING
Cloning
OVERVIEW
Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite automates the process of
Data Scrambling is the cloning Oracle e E-Business Suite systems via Grid Control. A step-by-step
process to obfuscate or
remove sensitive data, interview guides administrators though the cloning process. Grid Control automates
utilized by functional the creation of clone systems, and executes any required application-specific
administrators and database
actions. Additionally, administrators can modify the standard cloning process to
administrators when cloning
an environment. include custom actions.
The configuration of data Also in Release 12, Rapid Clone has been enhanced to support cloning of RAC
scrambling is performed systems deployed using Oracle Clusterware and Application Storage Management.
within Oracle Applications
Manager. To configure data
scrambling, the functional Supportability
administrators first identify In Release 12, Oracle Applications Manager has been enhanced to improve the
the sensitive data attributes
and map them to database
supportability of Oracle E-Business Suite systems.
columns. Then they collect
The main enhancements are in the areas of diagnostics and system alert
attributes together to define
scrambling policies and infrastructure:
policy sets.
Diagnostics: Oracle Applications Manager for Release 12 allows system
administrators to schedule and run diagnostics tests. Also, the Diagnostics
DATA SCRAMBLING
CHARACTERISTICS dashboard provides new graphical views of diagnostic test executions and
• Secure: When creating failures. Keyword searches can be performed on the test repository to locate
the new instance, relevant tests, which can then be grouped and executed directly from the same
scrambling will proceed
before any interfaces are
interface.
brought up, to ensure that
System Alert Infrastructure: The system alerting infrastructure has been
there is no access to the
internal image. enhanced with a new “flood control” mechanism to prevent multiple instances
• Irreversible: Scrambling of a given alert from overwhelming the alert system. Additionally, alerts have
is irreversible, so that the
been enhanced to allow summary and context information that can be retrieved
original data cannot be
derived from the in XML format via standard business event integration mechanisms. This
scrambled data. feature allows administrators to create automated responses to system alerts via
• Automated: Cloning is
the business event system.
typically performed by
system administrators as
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