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6 new System Monitoring Plug-Ins for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) are now available

Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is the Oracle integrated enterprise management solution spanning applications, middleware, and database management for customers running packaged applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications built on Oracle software and non-Oracle systems. It delivers an end-to-end perspective on the health of business applications with its unique top-down approach — it actively monitors and manages Oracle software, providing proactive diagnostics, automated remediation, and lifecycle automation; and it provides comprehensive monitoring for many co-existing non-Oracle technologies.

Oracle released last week new System Monitoring Plug-Ins. These plug-ins:

• Include plug-ins for Microsoft Exchange (pdf), EMC CLARiiON CX (pdf), VMware ESX (pdf), Apache Tomcat (pdf), and Sybase Adaptive Server (pdf), which are available for download via the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
• Include the Nimsoft NimBUS System Monitoring Plug-In for SAP (pdf), which is available from Nimsoft.
• Were developed in conjunction with third-party vendors and leverage Oracle Enterprise Manager’s plug-in framework, which uses open, standards-based technologies with published application programming interfaces.

Additionally, enhancements to existing System Monitoring Plug-Ins for IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Juniper Network’s Netscreen Firewall and Check Point Firewall are now available.

For details, you can refer to the following additional resources:

• Oracle White Paper: Management of Heterogeneous Data Centers Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Plug-ins (pdf)
• IDC Video: IDC Explains New IT imperatives in Application Management
• Oracle Magazine: Hands-Free Management

If you want to know more, you can also participate to one of the following Free Oracle Events in Switzerland:

• Geneva, 6th May 2008: Information and Registration here
• Baden, 14th May 2008: Information and Registration here

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