[OAUGNetDBA]-Re: Is Oracle Software Configuration Manger Worth the Effort?

["James Morrow" <morrow.james@gmail.com>]

Basically, you install the collection agent for each (unix) user that owns
an $ORACLE_HOME, (you'll have to "register" various components...
so, RDBMS $ORACLE_HOME, $IAS_ORACLE_HOME,
8.0.6 $ORACLE_HOME, E-Business Suite).  It runs out of cron (schedules
itself, thank you)
and "phones home" periodically to update stored configuration information.

Pretty simple to install, nice Flash-driven interface (not
particularly "lightweight"
mind you, but certainly "pretty").

Now, as far as useful, well....

In our case, it seems somewhat confused about things like E-Business suite
modules/products/product families.  For example, we're unable to log a "SCM" SR
against Oracle Projects (projects anything, for what it's worth)
because there isn't
a valid choice on the MetaLink SR create menu for anything that we can
identify that
would include any of the Projects modules.

Also, synchronization of the data between SCM and the MetaLink SR
process doesn't
appear to be completely smooth.

In my opinion, nice to play with, interesting toy... certainly worth
the effort to install...
Don't know how much real use we've gotten out of it, however.

-- James

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James J. Morrow | Senior Oracle Applications DBA
morrow.james <at> gmail <dot> com


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:07 PM, James Morrow <morrow.james@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Basically, you install the collection agent for each (unix) user that owns
> an $ORACLE_HOME, (you'll have to "register" various components...
> so, RDBMS $ORACLE_HOME, $IAS_ORACLE_HOME,
> 8.0.6 $ORACLE_HOME, E-Business Suite).  It runs out of cron (schedules itself, thank you)
> and "phones home" periodically to update stored configuration information.
>
> Pretty simple to install, nice Flash-driven interface (not particularly "lightweight"
> mind you, but certainly "pretty").
>
> Now, as far as useful, well....
>
> In our case, it seems somewhat confused about things like E-Business suite
> modules/products/product families.  For example, we're unable to log a "SCM" SR
> against Oracle Projects (projects anything, for what it's worth) because there isn't
> a valid choice on the MetaLink SR create menu for anything that we can identify that
> would include any of the Projects modules.
>
> Also, synchronization of the data between SCM and the MetaLink SR process doesn't
> appear to be completely smooth.
>
> In my opinion, nice to play with, interesting toy... certainly worth the effort to install...
> Don't know how much real use we've gotten out of it, however.
>
> -- James
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> James J. Morrow | Senior Oracle Applications DBA
> morrow.james <at> gmail <dot> com
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Gerry McGreevy <texasdba@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> As I sit here endlessly on hold with Oracle Support listening to the
>> tape push Oracle Software Configuration Manager (OSCM),
>>
>> I was wondering if anybody has used it . . . and if it provided
>> anything useful, or worth the effort to install and configure on all
>> our boxes?    Does it run smoothly ?
>>
>> Just wondering . . .
>>
>> Gerry
>>
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