This year 2013 valentines day, we announced the GA of several brand new Plug-ins versions for Enterprise Manger Cloud Control 12c.
We also released Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2 Plug-in Update 1 (12.1.0.2) for multiple platforms. Release 2 Plug-in Update 1, contains the original bits of 12c EM Cloud Control Release 2 (that was originally released in Oct 2012), packaged with the latest versions of several Plug-ins (including some brand new plugins).
Following shows the list of new plug-ins versions available along the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2 Plug-in Update 1 (12.1.0.2). The new plug-ins have dependency on 12.1.0.2, and customer needs to be on minimum 12.1.0.2 version of the product before deploying new plug-in versions. The new plug-ins include tons of new features, support for new managed targets, along with stability and performance bug fixes.
The brand new version of DB plugin ( DB 12.1.0.3), comes packed with stability and brand new features of diagnosability, High Availability, Manageability, RAC and Grid Infrastructure, Security etc. Above plug-in list includes Enterprise manager Storage Management Framework, a brand new plug-in that enables Snap Clone functionality by leveraging the snapshot and Copy on write features of underlying Storage. The new plug ins are packed with features like Testing as a service, Snap Clone, Schema as a service, RMAN based Data Prov just to name a few.
Note: The "Oracle Big Data Appliance"& "Oracle Engineered System Healthcheck" Plug-ins were released sometime back (and have been available to EM customers on Self Update).
We also released a new version for the following plugin, but it is not packaged inside Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2 Plug-in Update 1 (12.1.0.2).
Installation/Upgrade paths:
- EM Customers can do a fresh installation using "Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2 Plug-in Update 1 (12.1.0.2)", and will get the latest version of the product, along with all the latest plug-ins out of the box.
- EM Customers who are on Release1 (12.1.0.1), or on older releases 11g and 10.2.0.5, can choose to use Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2 Plug-in Update 1, to move/upgrade directly to the latest Release 2, and all plug-ins will be automatically upgraded to the latest versions of all Plug-ins deployed.
- EM Customers who have previously already moved on to EM Cloud Control Release 2 (12.1.0.2), can choose to utilize Self Update to download/import and deploy the new Plug-in versions, using the self update feature in the product.
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