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: Security by Asset book whitepaper

Earlier this week I posted about Assets and linked in that MOS post was "Security by Book White Paper" found by article ID 111129.1 but I think it is important to highlight it here in Weekend Learning because there is always an opportunity to learn more so check this 30+ page PDF out to pick up something new!

Weekend Learning: Whitepaper on validation of Diskgroups and ASM

In our efforts to get more understanding of Oracle technology for our toolbox, I suggest that you read the MOS whitepaper "How to Validate Normal or High Redundancy Diskgroups and ASM Disks Partnership (White Paper)" from article ID 1961372.1 to add to that toolbox!  This really takes us step by step on the validation procedure, and makes me think of ways we can monitor this (if OEM does not take care of it!).

Weekend Learning: R12 GL: Setup and usage of budgets and controls

Are you going to R12, or would you just like to know more about GL budgets and their associated controls?  If you answered yes to either of those, head on over to MOS to read document "Budgets and Budgetary Control - Setup and Usage" found via note ID 1928941.1 for all the details!  I think this is a great whitepaper that has been put together that not only uses visuals by the way of screenshots, but has an actual business scenario included that helps walk us through the whole thing!

Weekend Reading: Oracle Whitepaper on MOAC for custom code in R12

Researching this week, I found the Oracle Whitepaper entitled "Oracle Applications Multiple Organizations Access Control for Custom Code" in MOS note ID 420787.1.  This article contains primarily R12 content, since MOAC was introduced in R12, and while it is not required that you enable it when you install R12 it may be important information for you during your planning if having multiple organizations is a possibility.

I've been published by Oracle!!

Several months ago I was lucky enough to present for the OAUG and as a result, there was some interest in the Whitepaper that I generated to go along with it.  I didn't want to post the documents right away anyways, since I felt OAUG members should get first crack at them but after hearing that the Oracle mothership was interested I really thought if they were willing to help out by hosting it that they should be able to monitor the traffic and get the good results!

Today, I happened to be searching for some details about the new R12 directory structure apps_st when I stumbled upon the main WorkFlow Analyzer document and curiosity got the best of me so I opened the page up to see if my document had been attached yet.  If you search MOS for my name, or go directly to Note 1369938.1, you'll be able to pull up the document and click on the link "Whitepaper on analyzing WF data for increased system performance".  That's MY paper!  This couldn't have happened without a lot of people being involved, and I hope I was able to capture everybody in the credits!

If you have any questions or comments you can reply to this thread or get in touch with me directly via any number of other outlets privately if you would like, as I would love to hear what you think!

What is RBAC and how does it affect EBS?

In today's entry of our spotlight, comes a guest author detailing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) which shifts the access paradigm from our traditional (old) ways of directly assigning responsibilities directly to user accounts to a better (new) way of using responsibility assignments in conjunction with grant assignments as another layer of security.  It may surprise you to know that this isn't just for R12 either!  Plain old R11 can utilize this as well so give the whitepaper a read, if only so you are sure of what RBAC is and is not.