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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control pros and cons

Vendor: Oracle

4.1 out of 5

35 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control enables effective monitoring of databases and applications, offering centralized backup management and resource optimization. It supports performance management, job scheduling, and operational analysis. However, it lacks comprehensive monitoring for IBM AIX and Windows hosts, has complex installation on Windows, and suffers from agent instability and alert delays. Improvements are needed in patch management and security insights, impacting its reliability and ease of use for tech buyers.

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PROS

Administrators benefit from enhanced performance tuning and application insights, streamlining troubleshooting by identifying bottlenecks in application performance and offering quick insights and best practices from advisors.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control allows centralized management of backup strategies and environments, enhancing management efficiency and flexibility.

The platform supports a diverse monitoring capability, providing comprehensive views of operations and resource management, optimizing utilization across databases and applications.

Flexibility in managing incidents, scheduling jobs, and monitoring agent statuses proves valuable for operational analysis and performance, benefiting diverse industries and projects.

The feature-rich management capabilities, including database tuning, reporting, and the ability to manage incidents effectively, make it an invaluable tool for performance monitoring and operational excellence.

CONS

Registering a host provides complete information only on Linux systems, with limited support for IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows.

Enterprise Manager cannot replace WebLogic console for complete administration, necessitating dual management.

Alerts, such as those for redo log transport failure in Oracle Data Guard, are insufficient and sometimes delayed.

Installation is complex, lacking clear documentation and presenting challenges especially on Windows systems.

Technical support response times are long, prompting users to find independent solutions.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Pros review quotes

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Andreas-Stylianou

Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Feb 27, 2018

You can create a system group (database, application, and web server), so you can monitor performance as a system.

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IT Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 28, 2018

The solution provides very useful insights for application and database performance tuning. We were able to do away with guess work in determining where the bottlenecks were in application performance.

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Senior DBA at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 13, 2018

One of the clearest examples is the agility of discovering processes/sessions that are burdening the database environment. With this agility, the DBA can more quickly verify this type of problem, in addition to checking locked sessions and not having to do several searches in views and tables of the data dictionary. The tool already does this for you in an agile way.

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Andreas-Stylianou

Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Mar 13, 2018

Using Enterprise Manager, I was able to create user profiles for all the instances that have the same profile. Secondly, it's easier to manage performance, to automate the AWR reports to run every half an hour, or hour. Then, if you have a performance issue you just open the report and you can see what was running the last one hour, the SQL statements, or what was causing the performance issues.

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Saaim Abrar Abrar

MACS Snr CP, Senior Oracle Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 4, 2019

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control gives us diverse monitoring capability that can be extremely powerful.

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AM

Senior Consultant at Cloud Integrators Limited

Jun 19, 2019

Once this solution is configured, it will help administrators centralize their management of the environment.

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Database Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 19, 2019

We have been satisfied with technical support.

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Kolawole Olowoporoku

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 26, 2020

Compared to other monitoring products, the user interface is very clear. It sends clear notifications.

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reviewer1779804

Business Development Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Feb 11, 2022

The dashboard and reporting help us to do preventative AI and analytics to detect performance bottlenecks.

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Database Manager at Gantek

Apr 6, 2022

The solution is reliable.

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Cons review quotes

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Andreas-Stylianou

Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Feb 27, 2018

When registering a host, only if your host is running Linux will you get all the information which is available on EM. It would be nice if in future releases to include IBM AIX (primarily) and Microsoft Windows (secondly).

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IT Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 28, 2018

Oracle Data Guard monitoring: There are no alerts for redo log transport failure.

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Senior DBA at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 13, 2018

One of the things that can be improved is the quality of results generated by BI Publisher. They are somewhat confusing when it comes to analysis.

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Andreas-Stylianou

Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Mar 13, 2018

Because all our banking infrastructure is based on Oracle, I’ve tried to register Enterprise Manager on the middleware level, let's say, WebLogic applications. But I cannot say that I can do all the administration from Enterprise Manager, that I can do from the WebLogic Admin Console. So, I think here it needs some improvement: Things that you can do on the WebLogic Admin Console, you should be able to do them on the Enterprise Manager, so you don’t have to log into the Admin Console.

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Saaim Abrar Abrar

MACS Snr CP, Senior Oracle Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 4, 2019

The product does have room for improvement in patch management.

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AM

Senior Consultant at Cloud Integrators Limited

Jun 19, 2019

Because this solution provides insight into all of the areas within the IT stack, it would benefit from enhancements in security.

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Database Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 19, 2019

There is a lack from the point of view of monitoring on the system. The performance of the system and its resources are things that I think can be improved. There needs to be real-time monitoring available on the solution.

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Kolawole Olowoporoku

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 26, 2020

The on-premises installation is complex. It should be easier, especially for deploying agents that are running on a Windows machine that is running Oracle databases. It's very complex. Linux based machines aren't so complicated but it's complex for Windows.

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reviewer1779804

Business Development Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Feb 11, 2022

The only negative thing about this product is that it doesn't support all environments or all applications.

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Database Manager at Gantek

Apr 6, 2022

They need to simplify it and make it lighter.

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