Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

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.

I think what I really like in this product is that DBAs and my management development team don’t have to sit and manually write queries.

It has a graphical interface, which makes it handy for you to monitor the databases and that is the most useful feature.

You can manage many databases at the same time.

You don't have to write ad-hoc queries. Initially, my DBAs used to write scripts which were manual. So, running the scripts, writing them and trying to figure out what we want to monitor was a very difficult process. With OEM, you have all of this in the inbuilt interface, which really helped them in adding new databases in the main that we must monitor.

As the number of databases increased, it was fast for us to start monitoring them as well.

One of the big problems we had was using Data Guard along with OEM; it just didn’t work (Data Guard is a local higher level solution). Every time we did a takeover, it would stop working, so that was the biggest challenge we had. I think that this has been probably fixed in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c.

We had issues in terms of stability. Some of the functionalities, which we were looking for, were not available. It's not that it wasn't working, but it wasn't able to meet all our requirements.

Stability, as far as it was in a test environment, we did find a few issues. This was in Oracle Database 11g and it would just hang our systems. Thus, we didn't let it go to production.

We have Oracle Advanced Customer Support in our company. Using it was easy. It's just that product had a few issues in certain scenarios.

Oracle recommended it to us: "Everybody is using it out there, so use it!"

It was straightforward. We had to install a server on the database side and GUI on the client side; it was quite straightforward.

Based on our experience, if you are looking for a certain type of requirement, it would work.

The main requirement for us was stability since we run machine-critical applications.

Resiliency is really the main requirement from our side, even beyond scalability.

We run a company that provides services for banks and financial institutions, and resiliency is the most important factor, especially for a product like OEM. Security is equally important but for OEM, we don't really expose anything, so it's fine. It's more of a monitoring interface.

The automating diagnostic monitor (ADM) is the most valuable feature.

It will list the top findings: numbers one, two and three. Those are the areas where we have to troubleshoot. That helps my organization.

There are a lot of options; it takes time. I don't see anything like a dashboard or something similar. Adding some dashboards would possibly be a nice thing.

Stability’s good; no downtime.

Scalability’s good; it's okay.

We get good support. Tickets are resolved quickly and we are happy with the resolution. It is perfect.

I was not involved in the installation. A different team did it.

I think we are an Oracle shop; naturally we lean toward them.

It's pretty self-explanatory; just log in and explore the options. That's it.

I believe training would help. An expert can go over several options and make it easier.