RE: is Lifecycle management pack being used by anyone?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:39:20 +0000
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I got a customer who actually (had to) buy/bought it. So I am going to use it tomorrow to provision standard db's with it (http://youtu.be/FrmuXE22-rE) combined with OEM12cR2, for some system administrators who don't want to be over-flooded by 3rd party software companies and ruining there carefully setup Oracle VM 3.2.2 cluster environment. Enforcing stuff like our ideas about security and OFA, we/they should be able to provision 10ths of databases very quickly, while migrating their old environments.
We will see how good it is within OEM12cR2.
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To: pete.sharman_at_oracle.com; fuadar_at_yahoo.com; Chris.Stephens_at_adm.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: is Lifecycle management pack being used by anyone?
The original poster saw Lifecycle Management Pack on a list of items a new order was including. So it is definitely DBLM pack and not the ILM APEX thing that has been around for years. completely different purpose. ILM was never something a customer could buy. It was just a free APEX app you could use to define policies to move data based on age. it generated scripts to support ILM. All of the functionality of Config Management Pack including several acquisitions Oracle made in that space, along with the functionality of change management pack, and provisioning pack are all bundled together. There are some new features along each of those lines in EM12c.
The licensing guide is pretty good about describing what's in the pack. 2.3 Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database The Database Lifecycle Management Pack is a comprehensive solution that helps database, system, and application administrators automate the processes required to manage the Oracle Database Lifecycle. It eliminates manual and time consuming tasks related to discovery, initial provisioning, patching, configuration management and ongoing change management. In addition the Database Lifecycle Management pack provides compliance frameworks for reporting and management of industry and regulatory compliance standards. The Database Lifecycle Management covers the entire lifecycle of the databases, including:
- Discovery and Inventory tracking: the ability to discover your assets and track them.
- Initial provisioning: the ability to rollout databases in minutes.
- Ongoing Change Management: end-to-end management of patches, upgrades, schema and data changes.
- Configuration Management: track inventory, configuration drift. and detailed configuration search.
- Compliance Management: reporting and management of industry and regulatory compliance standards. The Database Lifecycle Management pack is also a prerequisite for the Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/license.121/e24474/ch2_db_mgmt.htm#BABCFJHA
If you previously owned either "Change Management", "Config Management", or "Provisioning and Patch Automation", you are entitled to use that corresponding subset of DB LifeCyclemanagement Pack.
There is a section in the licensing guide that explicitly covers the "Legacy" naming conventions. Here is one example:
Enterprise Manager Cloud Control no longer offers the Configuration Management Pack for Oracle Database. Enterprise Manager 10g and 11g Customers who purchased the Configuration Management Pack for Oracle Database can utilize the following Configuration Management features in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.
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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/license.121/e24474/ch2_db_mgmt.htm#BABDIBHI
From: Peter Sharman <pete.sharman_at_oracle.com> To: fuadar_at_yahoo.com; Chris.Stephens_at_adm.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Cc: Peter Sharman <pete.sharman_at_oracle.com> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: is Lifecycle management pack being used by anyone?
There are two different things being discussed here, so let's check back on which terminology the original poster meant.
From what I can recall, they mentioned "Lifecycle Management Pack". Tim responded with a discussion on ILM, which others have followed. Others have also used the term ILM when referring to an EM option. That option (or pack) is the ***Database*** Lifecycle Management pack, not ***Information*** Lifecycle Management. The fact that the original poster mentioned the term "pack" inclines me to believe they meant DBLM. However, if they could respond to confirm that, it would make life clearer. :)
Also, someone mentioned DBLM as a repackaging of three earlier 11g packs - the Change Management pack, Configuration Management pack for Oracle Database and Provisioning and Patch Automation for Database. This is not strictly true - it is not just a license consolidation exercise but includes new capabilities as well.
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Subject: RE: is Lifecycle management pack being used by anyone?
ILM is an ENterprise manager option and is used for provisioning and patching the database as well as provisioning a RAC I've been. POCing this pack and find it works well in a very non customized environment but does cost an arm and a leg <br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone
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