Provisioning and Automation

Today's data centers need to respond quickly to changing business demands. This makes it imperative to be able to provision software and rollout changes in short order.

The Provisioning Pack automates the deployment of software, applications, and patches. It makes critical data center operations easy, efficient and scalable resulting in lower operational risk and cost of ownership. The ability to provision the entire software stack that includes the operating system, the middleware and the database, supplemented by comprehensive reporting tools make Provisioning Pack an extremely significant entity in overall System Management space.

Overview Data Sheets, Business Whitepapers, Feature Overview Grid Control Release 3 Data Sheet  January 2007 Standalone Provisioning Pack Data Sheet  November 2007 Provisioning Pack for Database Data Sheet  November 2007 Provisioning Pack for Oracle Middleware Data Sheet  June 2008 Whats new in the Provisioning Pack 10gR3  February 2007 Realizing Provisioning Pack benefits with Enterprise Manager Database Control 11g  August 2007		Understanding Self-Running Demos, Screenwatches, Online Training Applying Oracle patches (e.g. Critical Patch Updates) from Enterprise Manager Patching in offline or disconnected mode (without Metalink connection) Adding a node to a RAC cluster with a single click Provisioning a bare metal Linux server
Getting Started Tutorials, Oracle By Example (OBE) Provisioning Oracle Application Server		Best Practices Technical Whitepapers. Best Practice Documents, Documentation Achieving Grid Automation with Deployment Procedures April 2008 Saving time and labor on Oracle Patching with EM Provisioning Pack - a case study with Oracle Internal IT  February 2008 Best Practices for Bare Metal Provisioning of Linux using Enterprise Manager  January 2007 Documentation: Using Enterprise Manager For Grid Automation With Deployment Procedures Documentation: Using a Software Library