E-Business Suite Plug-in 12.1.0.3 for Enterprise Manager 12c Now Available

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Oracle E-Business Suite Plug-in 12.1.0.3.0 is now available for use with
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Oracle E-Business Suite Plug-in 12.1.0.3 is part
of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Application Management Suite for Oracle
E-Business Suite.

This latest plug-in extends EM 12c Cloud Control with E-Business Suite
specific system management capabilities and features enhanced change management
support.

The Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Application Management Suite for Oracle
E-Business Suite includes:

• Functionality that was available in the previously-standalone Application
  Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite and Application Change Management
  Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite
  
• Oracle Real User Experience Insight
  
• Oracle Configuration & Compliance capabilities
  

Licensing information

A license for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control is required to use
this product. There is an additional licensing cost for the Application
Management Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite. A license for the Application
Management Suite includes licenses for the E-Business Suite Plug-in, Oracle Real
User Experience Insight, and Oracle Configuration & Compliance products.

This is a Development blog, and we don't have the background to discuss
licensing in more detail. We'd recommend contacting your Oracle account manager
for more information about licenses.

Updates to product bundling

Features that were previously available in the standalone management packs
are now packaged in the Oracle E-Business Suite Plug-in, which is certified with
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control:

• Functionality previously available for Application Management Pack (AMP) is
  now classified as “System Management for Oracle E-Business Suite” within the
  plug-in.
  
• Functionality previously available for Application Change Management Pack
  (ACMP) is now classified as “Change Management for Oracle E-Business Suite”
  within the plug-in.

The Application Configuration Console and the Configuration Change Console
are now native components of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

New enhancements in this release

Administration/Configuration/Monitoring

• Privilege Propagation Using Administration Groups: Privilege
  propagating groups enable administrators to extend privileges to members of a
  group. For example, if new targets are later added to the privilege propagating
  group, then the administrators receive the privileges on the target
  automatically. Additionally, when a new administrator is hired, you only need to
  grant the role to the administrator for the administrator to receive all the
  privileges on the targets automatically.
  
  
• Oracle E-Business Suite Region in Exalogic Dashboard: An Oracle
  E-Business Suite summary region is included on the Exalogic Dashboard.
  
  
• Configuration Comparison Templates: Configuration comparison
  templates allow customers to compare Oracle E-Business Suite technology
  configurations of two or more Oracle E-Business Suite environments.
  
  
• Certified Monitoring Templates: Out-of-the-box monitoring templates
  allow you to standardize monitoring settings across Oracle E-Business Suite
  environments by allowing you to specify metric thresholds to monitor E-Business
  Suite services, components and technology stacks.
  
  
• Performance Monitoring: Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 customers can
  diagnose performance issues by using Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Diagnostic
  integration. Customers can monitor live and historical transactions and drill
  down from end user activities through all layers of technology, including Real
  User Experience Insight (RUEI), WebLogic Suite (WLS) and database.
  
  
• Integration with Service Test Infrastructure: Administrators can
  define service tests and beacons using Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS)
  to determine the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite services. Pre-seeded
  service tests can be used to ensure that Oracle E-Business Suite services are
  available for users.
  
  
• Extended Target Modeling: Administrators can now easily add Fusion
  Middleware components that are externally-integrated with Oracle E-Business
  Suite to the availability definition.
  
  
• Blacking Out Patch Edition in Oracle E-Business Suite12.2: Patch
  edition targets are automatically blacked out in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 to
  prevent false incidents.
  

Compliance Framework

• Out-of-the-box Oracle E-Business Suite Compliance Standards: In
  addition to the seeded security compliance standards delivered in the previous
  release, we have added new compliance standards that check for mandatory
  database configuration parameters (init.ora) for Oracle E-Business
  Suite.
  

Customization Management

• User Defined Customization Standards: Customers now have the ability
  to define their own standards to validate customizations and create packages
  according.
  

Patch Management

• Patch Promotion Policy: Patch Manager now allows customers to create
  patch promotion policies for applying patches onto pre-production systems before
  applying them to production systems
  

Automated Cloning

• Cloning support for Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2: Multi-node
  cloning, scale-up or scale-down cloning, and shared file system cloning is
  supported for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.
  

Quick Provisioning of E-Business Suite

• Oracle E-Business Suite Assemblies: Customers can now provision
  Oracle E-Business Suite Instances quickly using Oracle Virtual Assemblies
  delivered for EBS 12.1.3 and EBS 12.2.
  

Installation & Upgrades

• Customers currently running on Enterprise Manager 12c, can use Self Update
  to download and install AMP 12.1.0.3.0.

• All others can download it here: Oracle Software Delivery Cloud

Prerequisites

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 4 (12.1.0.4.0)
  
  
• One or more of the following Oracle E-Business Suite Releases
  

• Release 12.2.3 or 12.2.2
  
  
• Release 12.1 with R12.ATG_PF.B.delta.3
  
  
• Release 12.0.4 with R12.ATG_PF.A.delta.6
  
  
• Release 11.5.10 CU2 with 11i.ATG_PF.H.RUP6 or
  higher
  

References

• Getting
  Started with Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite
  (AMP), Release 12.1.0.3.0 (Doc ID 1623105.1)
  
  
• Oracle
  Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Guide, Release
  12.1.0.3.0, Part No. E51704-01, July 2014
  
  
• Application
  Management Suite: Quick Provisioning of Oracle E-Business Suite Using Virtual
  Assemblies (Doc ID 1904928.1)

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