Weekend Learning: Whitepaper on Exadata monitoring with Enterprise Manager

Do not miss this whitepaper on Monitoring Exadata Storage Server Grids with Enterprise Manager from the Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) team which has the entire step by step process and all the SQL you need to set up all of the conditions you need to alert on!

Weekend Learning: Deploying OEM 12c plugins

Do you want to learn a bit more outside of the Support realm?  Visit My Oracle Support document "EM 12c: How to Deploy the Latest Database Plugin to the OMS / Agent ?" via article ID 1388143.1 to pick up something new tonight with this article that goes step by step with a good number of screenshots to help reinforce the instructions!

EM12c: Reports not running due to special character in password

I have told you about my adventures with passwords before, but today is a new type of issue!  Instead of the EBS application, the MOS document "EM 12c: Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control BIP Reports do not Execute if the User Login Password has a Special Character (like $)" found via note ID 1951651.1 is about encountering error messages when trying to view BI Publisher reports if the account has a special character in the password for the account.  Is that because special characters are not allowed?  Nope, they are perfectly valid characters but do not interact well with BI Publisher report output files!!

Weekend Learning: Using ASH Analytics in EM12c

Have you used Enterprise Manager 12c yet to drill into ASH analytic data?  If you have not had the chance, I would visit the page Kellyn Pot'vin shared via Twitter tonight where she uses EM12c to identify a negative trend and then dive into the ASH data to figure out what is going on!  This was a great article where she gives us the entire "train of thought" plus screenshots for every event so we can duplicate her efforts when we have our own problems!