Before, during and after the Open World, I have received numerous queries on the release of Enterprise Manager 13.2. This is an important release for Enterprise Manager 12c customers who traditionally wait for the release 2 of any product before upgrading, and for customers who have already upgraded to 13c, but want their critical issues addressed. And there are specific capabilities that are sought for by a specific set of customers, for example, security-sensitive customers have been asking for TLS 1.2 support.
Se here we are, announcing the release of Enterprise Manager 13.2. The primary focus of this
release was around security, scalability and availability of the platform. Some
long pending requirements have been addressed in the release. First, comes the
support for TLS1.2. The communication between the agent and OMS, the agent and
the targets, and in case of target types such as database, between the OMS and
the targets are now secure with TLS1.2 protocol. Second, Enterprise Manager
13.2 supports IPv6 addresses, allowing targets to be managed on IPv6-enabled
hosts. Lastly, for ensuring higher availability of the Enterprise Manager
platform, the "Always On" Monitoring feature has now been certified
to run on a different host than the OMS.
Enterprise Manager 13.2
continues to improve upon the 13c theme of having a unified hardware and
software management. The highlights in this area include better engineered
systems and infrastructure management with the support for Exadata X6-2, X6-8
and Oracle VM 3.4 (and therefore the latest PCA models). Couple of other
improvements in infrastructure management worth mentioning, are seamless ASR
integration for hardware telemetry and Solaris Compliance checks.
Management of database
and middleware platforms continues to evolve in this release. The
fleet-maintenance feature, first introduced in 12cR5, can now support a wider
range of database configurations, making patching really simple for cloud-scale
environments. For Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Manager now supports Weblogic
12.2.x, enabling customers to enjoy the benefits of multitenancy for their
Weblogic platform. Some of the benefits can also be enjoyed in a hybrid
environment, as on-prem targets as well as DBCS, JCS and SOACS targets can be
managed by a single Enterprise Manager instance.
Visit the OTN page to get more information on Enterprise Manager 13c.