This is going to be a busy month as I finish up presentations for multiple sessions at OpenWorld 2014.  It’s always such a great event, but a lot of work in September!

There’s a lot of valuable EM sessions that you can find here, but I’m going to highlight a few of the ones I’m working on with my team.

Zero to Manageability in One Hour: Build a Solid Foundation for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c [CON8134]

Wednesday, Oct 1, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM – Moscone South – 303
Speakers: Courtney Llamas (Oracle), Kellyn Pot’Vin (Oracle),  Dan Brint (SUNY)

We’re calling this our EM 101.  While we will have to skip a lot of the basic information due to the shorten sessions, this is geared towards those who are installing or upgrading to EM 12c and would like to learn from our experience with our “Fast Track” Methodology.   Even if you’ve already implemented or upgraded, you might learn a thing or two about organizing targets or managing your EM system.  We will also save some time for one of our customers (State University of New York) to share their experience in this process.

Abstract: Learn how to properly architect and deploy your Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c implementation, including designing for high availability and scalability. This session focuses on the essential tasks an implementation team must do to ensure Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c rollouts occur in a timely fashion and deliver a solid foundation for exploiting the marquee features of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Topics such as users, roles, groups, templates, and incidents are discussed, plus key architectural decisions. The Strategic Customer Programs team in Oracle Enterprise Manager Development works with customers worldwide to guide them to success with their implementations and has compiled some essential techniques and tips for getting from zero to manageability in the shortest time possible. 

Under the Hood: Diagnosing and Troubleshooting Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 [CON8225]

Monday, Sep 29, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM – Moscone South – 302
Speakers:  Werner DeGruyter (Oracle), Andrew Bulloch (Oracle)

This is our “graduate level” class.  For the people responsible for EM day by day, who have to troubleshoot performance issues or agent issues, this session is for you!  Don’t miss out.

Abstract:  This session equips attendees with the knowledge they need in order to understand the health and status of Oracle Enterprise Manager. It covers essential background information on the Oracle Enterprise Manager infrastructure (such as the repository and the agent) and selected managed targets. Building on this knowledge, the session then looks a little deeper and discusses techniques and tips for monitoring the performance of Oracle Enterprise Manager and tuning any bottlenecks that are commonly identified in Oracle Enterprise Manager. It also explores the essential parts of the Oracle Enterprise Manager UI every Oracle Enterprise Manager administrator should be familiar with and discusses some techniques for logging and tracing to assist in diagnosing problems.

Wait, there’s more!

In addition to the sessions above, I’ll be co-presenting with a few customers on their sessions, so come see how real customers are using EM to manage and monitor their targets!

Advanced Diagnostics and Monitoring with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c [CON4114]

Thursday, Oct 2, 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM – Moscone South – 301
Speakers:  Tyler Sharp (Cerner), Aaron Rimel (Cerner), Courtney Llamas

Abstract:  This session covers how Cerner Corporation, a leading healthcare IT company, leverages Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for database-specific thresholds, creating proactive monitoring of 26,000+ targets. Learn how to scrape Automatic Workload Repository data combined with Oracle Enterprise Manager repository data, exploiting common script issues in a homogeneous environment or personalized thresholds with historical data to proactively alarm, hours or even days before a potential outage. Report on compliance to feed management data on complexity and compliance of your data centers. With metric extensions, Cerner realized a 40 percent reduction in patient hours affected. Increase returns on your Oracle Enterprise Manager investment, and move your organization to proactive smart alerting.