Oracle Cloud Control 12c on Amazon Web Services

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c can run on Amazon's cloud services if you know a few tricks. You can download a copy of the how-to guide at OEMonEC2partTwo.pdf. It is in draft form. Over the next few weeks a bit more will be outlined before I move onto part three of this series. You can obtain part one here.

The highlights of  Part Two are:

• Brief over of  features and architecture OEM CC 12c.
• Extensive links to Part One of the series and other sources of necessary information to run an Oracle database repository (OMR) in an AWS EC2 environment.
• Set up of the Amazon Machine Image to satisfy CC prerequisites.
• Extensive discussion of  Name Resolution to enable CC to run in a DHCP environment.
• Scripts for dynamic Hosts file management.
• Firewall configuration to enable the CC architectural pieces to communicate in an EC2 context.
• Debugging tips if the installation goes not as planned.
• How to configure CC security credentials.

 If anyone how has already done this, or, will use this guide to do so I'd like to hear from you.

Highlights of the Installation and Configuration Companion

The Installation and Configuration Companion contains the following topics

•    Quick Start Guides for concise list of steps with links to in depth references.
•    How to obtain access to Oracle Support at a very low cost
•    How to make an EC2 IP/EIP persistant thru server stop/starts
•    How to validate an Amazon Machine Image for an Oracle database
•    How to use YUM during the installation
•    How to create your own server init/rc startup script
•    How to set up ssh, VNC, firewall tunneling and how to solve problems when connecting to your server
•    How to install the Grid Infrastructure (GI) using role separation for security and compliance
•    How to allocate EC2 storage for a production sized OEM repository server, including setting up swap, temp, and an Oracle Fast Recovery Area
•    How to configure Oracle's ASM with GI troubleshooting techniques
•    How to troubleshoot a failed installation and how to start over
•    Bug fixes for: Oracle supplied AMI, Oracle install process, and a fix for ElasticFox enabling it to run in new versions of Firefox
•    How to test a recovery on the EC2 storage and Oracle database levels

An overview of the following important topics

•    EC2 security/firewall setup
•    EC2 storage
•    Setting up EC2 command line tools
•    Extensive list of important ASM and EC2 topics
•    Brief outline of the GI services
•    Brief outline of GI role separation
•    An FDISK primer

Oracle Grid Infrastructure on Amazon's Web Services

The primary goal of this series of papers will be to document the process of installing, configuring and fine tuning an implementation of the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 12c Cloud Control product suite on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Follow-on papers will cover in-depth utilization of the rich feature sets of both AWS and OEM.

The intended audience is individuals with at least some familiarity of these technologies, and who desire more in-depth coverage than that given in a cursory installation tutorial.

This series serves as a bridge between the thousands of pages of excellent but daunting official documentation, and the cursory installation tutorials which hide detail and provide a false sense of completion. The series should be used as a companion to the full installation guides. It will fill in details, show examples, explain pitfalls, and in some cases document items missing from other sources.

Some of the highlights are:

• Quick Start Guides serve as a guide to the overall text. These sections provide a step-by-step approach with references into the main text for further detail.
• Hundreds of links to authorization sources to help you understand not only what to do but why.
• Pointers for what to do when things go wrong with debugging tips.
• Extensive coverage of setting up Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud for and Oracle database.
• How to obtain access to Oracle's Knowledge Base and tools almost for free.

You can pull down a copy of  here.