Enterprise Manager - Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead's Development Cluster, EM12c and the Blue Mendora VMware EM Plugin

For development and testing purposes, Rittman Mead run a VMWare VSphere cluster made up of a number of bare-metal servers hosting Linux, Windows and other VMs. Our setup has grown over the years from a bunch of VMs running on Mac Mini servers to where we are now, and was

Oracle BI Suite EE

OEM12cR3: Holistic BI Platform Monitoring using Systems and Services

Over the past few weeks myself and some of my colleagues have been posting articles on the blog about monitoring OBIEE using Enterprise Manager 12cR3’s BI Management Pack. In the various articles we’ve looked at managing individual OBIEE installations and monitoring various aspects of the product’s performance,

Oracle BI Suite EE

Monitoring OBIEE Performance for the End User with JMeter from EM12c

This is the third article in my two-article set of posts (h/t) on extending the monitoring of OBIEE within EM12c. It comes after a brief interlude discussing Metric Extensions as an alternative using Service Tests to look at Usage Tracking data. Moving on from the rich source of monitoring

Oracle BI Suite EE

Collecting Usage Tracking Data with Metric Extensions in EM12c

In my previous post I demonstrated how OBIEE’s Usage Tracking data could be monitored by EM12c through a Service Test. It was pointed out to me that an alternative for collecting the same data would be the use of EM12c’s Metric Extensions. A Metric Extension is a metric