Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

Our primary use is for monitoring and management of Oracle products. We are running several Oracle products in our environment.

The product gives us as much control as we can have by providing a complete picture of the whole set of Oracle products. We can monitor all of them.

We would like to have a single dashboard for monitoring and controlling all of our products. This would add value, for us, because as it is now, we have to go to different screens to check different products.

We have been using Oracle Enterprise Manager for about seven years, since 2013.

The Oracle Enterprise Manager is pretty stable and we haven't had any issues.

We have not had to contact technical support for this product because we haven't had any issues. However, if we need to then there is a support portal available.

This product is easy to install and we can complete the deployment in a day, including the agent.

We are satisfied with the pricing.

Overall, I am satisfied with this product. It assists us in finding issues through monitoring services.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

On-premises

The ability to capture data and then processing it based on what we need to pull for analysis.

• Less manual work
• Less labor intensive
• More data consistency

More flexibility in terms of the user being able to customize a little bit instead of having it so standard. That would be helpful.

It's been pretty stable. It's good.

For us, it's a good size. It applies to all populations. It's good.

For technical, we have a technical team. Usually, because I'm an analyst, I just pass it over to the technical team and they deal with the technical side.

It was an old system. That's why we transferred into this. In technology, you need to be advanced. You need to keep up.

The decision was made by top management, but I'm sure that they look at cost and the support of it. Mainly the cost.

I think the initial setup was not too complex. It wasn't that bad.

We went with Oracle because we were looking for stability, a vendor that is reliable, being able to get help, troubleshooting when there's a problem. I think those are the important ones.

I would recommend looking into it.

It monitors our database environment, which is very critical for our environment.

We are going to minimize the downtime. If the system is down, it will page us; and we're going to get to that issue. Its a very added advantage. It also tells us when the system is running slow; if some people are experiencing performance issues, we can see that. It's a very useful graphical user interface for the management to understand.

We want to see some of the official licensed products, the other core components that come inside so plug-ins are made easy for us.

They've got to integrate more into the network inside. They've got to integrate more depth and provide a solutions for that. The storage system monitoring is really a little basic. They just give the symptoms, not the solutions. That's the bad thing.

The stability is good. So far, it's running perfect, so there are no complaints about it.

I think this product doesn't have to scale much because it just monitors the database. We're keeping about one year's worth of work. We can scale according to the storage.

We were using hand grown scripts as our previous solution. This has a nice GUI interface, and all that, and that's the reason we went with this.

We didn't consider much because we didn't have any competitor for that here. We do have another product called Ignite. We were using it, and we used it also linked with this one; but they were home grown scripts we had.

It's a simple straightforward tool to install. We did it 6 years ago, and we keep upgrading the work instructions. It's perfectly fine.

There is online documentation. He has to go look around and see what he can get, and then implement it if he wants to.

We haven't fully utilized it yet on a day-to-day basis, but we will put more into it. We do see patching is going to be a big improvement. Day to day, I think we are at 20 percent for now, but that number will increase.

Support definitely can be improved; documentation and support. The documentation is convoluted, very confusing.

I have been using it for four years.

It's stable, so far.

So far, it's okay; it scales.

The support is not good for this product. The enterprise system that I have is kind of complex. Support is very basic; they don't have someone who really is savvy.

Initial setup is okay. It's 50/50.

My company choose to use this product because I can see that it's going to be more aligned with the technology, with the cloud. It's more robust, and we can see it's going to be an essential product for IT.

When I’m deciding whether to work with a vendor such as Oracle, I look for kind of a mix that includes reliability and strategic too: How does it fit into the enterprise system?

I recommend Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Performance diagnostics. That is the best.

It allows me to receive real-time alerting notifications when somebody's doing something that is detrimental in the environment. I can get right on issues and correct them as quickly as possible.

It's a pretty well-rounded product. Nothing really comes to mind right now.

Very stable, extremely stable.

The ability to scale is excellent.

Outstanding.

We weren't using anything previously. The decision was just made to go with this one because I was familiar with it, and it's a pretty solid stable product from Oracle.

The setup was moderate, but the documentation and everything that exists is really invaluable.

In choosing a vendor our most important criteria are affected by the fact that we work for the Children's Hospital Research Institute. They're a non-profit so budgets are always tight. Cost would be the primary factor, and vendors being willing to negotiate, for non-profit companies, on the prices.

Be sure that you have the people with the skill sets to be able to use the tool, or be willing to invest in the training to learn how to use the tool.

It's a more mature stable product.

Monitoring of the database is the most valuable feature, because we want to know what's going on there.

It is timely, if you want to add some memory or whatever. That's seems to be timely.

I don’t think the response system is that good. It is too slow.

It's pretty stable.

Scaling requires a little more configuration work.

I have not had to use technical support.

Initial setup is pretty straightforward.

We don't integrate it with anything else. It runs as a standalone piece.

The monitoring product is getting better every year, but it still needs some work.

Monitoring and the ability to quickly drill down, see and identify issues. Also provisionning is an interesting option as long as it works.

We have set up a lot of alerts which can notify us immediately when something arises and this is keeping our SLA's kept. Additionally we have made customized reports on KPI's in order to quickly get the whole picture and keep management apprised - also so we can show how a change has made an impact.

Setting up provisioning can be a challenging. Also there are a lot of bugs and some specific to platforms. Not every platform is equally supported.

Personally 6 years, in the company more than that (from version 9 up to 12c)

With the initial deployment no, went smoothly for the last version. In the previous there were some issues that were frustrating but in the end not so hard to overcome.

Initially after the upgrade/installation of every version we have had issues with stability and performance. After a couple of weeks tuning and tweaking it stabilizes and then we have no more trouble - till the next upgrade.

No, we have not had any issues. That is probably because at a point we decided to set up a second installation for our test environments and we have divided the workload between the two installations.

Before using OEM we had a lot of scripts to check database health, also we have and use some other solutions for monitoring. OEM provided everything in a single package and has a lot more options, plus it is a lot better at monitoring databases then anything else.

With every version it becames easier to set it up. Depending of course on the platform, but still with 12c it is really straight forward.

We tried to involve Oracle for a upgrade and migration project from version 11g to 12c. After more than a year finally they gave up and said it cannot be done. We then did it in-house, workaround it (with their support of course) we migrated the 11g version and then upgraded it. Every other upgrade/installation was done in-house.

Sorry can not say about the cost, we have always used as little hardware as possible.

Not a lot. Mainly we looked at what we have and then went for OEM as most of our DBs are Oracle. We have monitoring from HP BAC/Mercury.

It is a must if you have more than a couple of databases to monitor and manage, it can also do a lot of other stuff and monitor various types of targets. It has a good system for testing applications. It has a lot of potentials but best advice is read through the documentation and know what you are getting, check with somebody who is already using it to get the best idea.

Real-time monitoring we can quickly find the session or queries that are causing issues.

With our different platforms running our databases like UNIX, Linux and Windows it becomes difficult to support manually with different type of scripts. With different types of database versions like 9i, 10g and 11g it helps to have one tool that can support them all.

One thing I would like to see is the option of agent less monitoring. I would also like to see monitoring only at LDOM level so if you are using Solaris zones you only monitor at LDOM level.

I've been using OEM since version 10g which would have been since 2007.

The setup is straightforward the installer guides you during the installation. The installer also has pre-checks to make sure your system is ready for installation or upgrade. For upgrades you have the option of a 2 step system for if you want to move to another server and OS at the time of your upgrade from older versions.

I would recommend that you try OEM, it can monitor many different products and it has been well designed. When monitoring database performance in real-time I have yet to see another product that can do it as well as OEM.