Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

We use Oracle Enterprise Manager primarily for database management, with a focus on performance monitoring. 

Our environments are composed of both standalone and cluster databases which, in turn, are deployed in Oracle appliances like ODA and Exadata, as well as others hardware vendors.

In addition, we use the tool to create, configure and manage high-availability environments using Oracle Data Guard and Real Application Clusters, automation of manual activities and patching.

With Enterprise Manager, we have achieved a dramatic decrease in the number of database incidents. As a result, unplanned downtime has been reduced because we are resolving issues before the business is even aware of them.

The product has powerful features for diagnosis of database issues, complemented with tuning capabilities for most of the issues found.

With ASH Analytics, ADDM, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, SQL Tuning Advisor, we can measure SLAs, detect performance hotspots, perform deep diagnostics into specific tiers, tune applications, and remediate.

Oracle is always making improvements to Oracle Enterprise Manager. I think Enterprise cloud integration presents new management challenges.

More than five years.

We always strive to have the latest version of this product, which has always helped to improve stability and performance.

Yes, we encountered scalability issues. However, there are several techniques for achieving optimal performance. It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment.

Inadequately-sized Enterprise Manager deployments may result in the overall benefits of Enterprise Manager being compromised.

Good.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. Today, you can even download the templates found on the Oracle website.

The basic functions are free. You only pay license fees for advanced features.

I’ve been using this product for years. I evaluated other options from different vendors such as Foglight and SolarWinds, to name a couple.

To me this is the best product for enterprise database management. I rate it a 10 out of 10.

Now, before you implement, you can do several tests with the Enterprise Manager templates VMS, available from Oracle. Also, check the compatibility matrix and try to always keep your system up to date.

Monitoring and tuning of Oracle databases.

It has improved significantly our monitoring and tuning of our databases.

Installation and configuration.

6+ years

Yes, configuration is a pain.

Nope

Nope

Customer Service: 4 stars, sometimes support takes time to figure out the issue and provide a solution.Technical Support: 4 stars

Used to monitor manually before.

Medium difficulty

In-house

None

None

Go for it and utilize all the features!

The performance console is a must.

Can drastically reduce the diagnostic time and help monitoring multiple instances. Be aware that a lot of the features need appropriate licensing.

I would say the footprint on the server. Also the GUI can be tricky.

More than 7 years

To uninstall I needed to refer to the documentation.

No and it's a good point.

No.

Customer Service: Very good.Technical Support: Very good.

I used ignite8 which is a must have for the perf part and a lot cheaper.

It requires some reading but nothing is too complex.

Myself.

Yes, quest spotlight- too messy. Nothing like AWR.

Give it a try with the version embedded within the database and then go further.

We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products. It's a monitoring tool that shows the performance of your Oracle database or many other products.

The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU.

I have been working with Oracle Enterprise Manager for five years.

I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager ten out of ten for stability.

Around five to seven users use the solution in our organization.

I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager ten out of ten for scalability.

I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager ten out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

Oracle Enterprise Manager can be deployed in one hour by one person. You deploy the Oracle Enterprise Manager server, then deploy the agents to the targets you want to monitor.

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a free tool from Oracle.

Overall, I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager a nine out of ten.

On-premises

The look and feel I think. Fast and compatible. It's easy to customize.

Security. 

The performance, I feel. The performance needs to be increased a little bit.Sometimes it will take some time to open forms, so I feel it should be a little bit faster.

Downtime is there, but it depends on the user's needs.

Scales well.

They're good.

I recommend it. You should learn it; you need to know about it before you start using it. There are tools and thing which can help. There is development training you can attend, and then you can start with it.

Valuable features include SQLrun and the performance page.

It has helped us in terms of automated switch-over and fail-over.

The SQLrun sometimes does not work, and it crashes most of the time.

We have been using this for two years.

There were no issues with deployment.

There were no issues with stability.

There were no issues with scalability.

Customer Service:

Customer service is good.

Technical Support:

Technical support is very good.

We did not use a solution previous to this one.

The setup was straightforward.

The implementation was done in-house.

One of the valuable features is performance drill down.

I would like to see drill-down tabs.

We have been using this for eight years.

There were no issues with deployment.

There were no issues with stability.

There were no issues with scalability.

We did not use a previous solution.

The implementation was done in-house.

The best features are the usability and the interface.

More tools along the lines of support would be valuable. It would also be nice to catch things either as they happen or before they happen, as opposed to seeing that something is broken and having to go in and fix it.

I’ve used the product for four years.

Services are pretty inconsistent. Too much usage will make it go down, and we will have to step in to bring it back up.

It is a scalable solution that meets our needs for now.

Every couple of weeks we need support. We always use the community, and as long as the issues have happened before, it’s a good help.

We were using something off the mainframe before we switched to EPM. We went from mainframe to distributed, which made a big difference.

Setup is pretty complex for a large system. It was pretty complicated for us, but we had consultants who helped a lot.

It’s a great product, but make sure that you have people on staff that are familiar with it, or get your staff familiarized with it, because there are a lot of things that you need to learn to maintain it.