Oracle Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 13.1.1.1.0

Oracle Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 13.1.1.1.0

The Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite is built on top of the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control platform and provides advanced features to effectively monitor and manage Oracle E-Business Suite systems

Application Management Pack (AMP) 13.1.1.1 for Oracle E-Business Suite is now available.  This E-Business Suite plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c can be used to manage Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2, 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2 environments.

Key Features:

The following are brief descriptions of key features introduced in this release:

1. Enterprise Manager 13c Technology Uptake
2. Oracle E-Business Suite Management on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
3. Hybrid Cloud Management
4. System Management for Oracle E-Business Suite - Discovery and Monitoring
5. Change Management for Oracle E-Business Suite

1. Enterprise Manager 13c Technology Uptake
Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c includes several enhancements such as:

* A new Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack
* The "Alta" user interface to enhance user experience
* Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) support

2. Oracle E-Business Suite Management on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Discovery of Oracle E-Business Suite environments provisioning on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Enterprise Manager can be installed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to monitor and manage Oracle E-Business Suite environments residing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

3. Hybrid Cloud Management
Oracle Application Management Suite now delivers several capabilities to monitor and manage Oracle E-Business Suite environments on Oracle Cloud and on-premises. These capabilities are delivered through the Enterprise Manager command line interface (EMCLI) for greater flexibility.

* Automation of deployment of Hybrid Cloud Agent during EBS discovery process
* Start and End Blackouts on a single Oracle E-Business Suite environment
* Start and Stop Services includes more granularity at the component and node levels
* View and apply recommended patches for EBS applications and database
* Apply EBS patches to multiple environments
* Create custom packages

4. System Management for Oracle E-Business Suite - Discovery and Monitoring
Discovery of Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic
In Oracle Application Management Pack Release 13.1.1.1.0 Bundle Patch 1 (BP1), discovery of Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic is supported, provided that the E-Business Suite database is on Compute.
Real User Experience Insight (RUEI) regions integrated within the Oracle E-Business Suite Summary page
In this release, we have integrated five different RUEI regions within the Oracle E-Business Suite Summary page. Customers can personalize and activate one or all RUEI regions. These RUEI regions are specific to a given Oracle E-Business Suite instance and customers can view the data and drill down for detailed information.
Auto Host Aliasing
Host aliasing is now automated and will attempt to match the host name in the Oracle E-Business Suite context file and the discovered host name in Oracle Enterprise Manager. If this attempt fails, you will be prompted to perform the mapping manually. Customization Manager and Patch Manager features now support host aliasing.
Support for Gold Agent
Now we have support for Gold Agent Images feature of Enterprise Manager. For more information, please refer chapter "Managing the Lifecycle of Agent Gold Images" of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Advanced Installation and Configuration Guide.

5. Change Management for Oracle E-Business Suite
Patch Manager - Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack Pack Deployments
During the prior release of Application Management Suite, you had the ability to view patch recommendations for E-Business Suite applications and the technology stack. In this release, you now have the ability to deploy Database and WebLogic server patches using Enterprise Manager patch plans.
UI now shows if the patch is already applied or not.
Advanced search filtering options for online patching section.
UI now allows you to set number of workers for patching.
You can now specify a duration after which the Internal Concurrent Manager will be shut down forcefully, earlier it used to wait indefinitely to bring down the ICM.
Default option for online patching is now "No Cutover". Customers have to explicitly check the box to cut over after online patching.
Code level recommendations for EBS products and product families.

Customization Manager - Customization Discovery & Reporting
Customization Discovery & Reporting process now includes discovery of database objects.
Cloning - Automated Cloning
You now have the ability to save the cloning interview process as templates that can be used for future purposes for Smart Clone for R12, 12.2.x procedure.
You can add custom parameters to the cloning procedure
Smart Clone and Instance Administration now support Dual File System Configurations

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