Comments on: Oracle Configuration Manager: Bane or Blessing? http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing News and views from Pythian DBAs Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:38:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Gregory http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing#comment-124673 Gregory Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:19:50 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing#comment-124673 Mark, There is a bit of confusion down there. What Oracle has removed is the ability to create and store configuration manually in Configuration Support Manager (CSM v2.0 is available now at https://csm.oracle.com/ or from the Configuration Support Manager tab of Metalink ) Thanks God ! You don't have (for now at least) to have a stored configuration to create a SR even if it could have been useful in the past. However, most of the time Oracle request a RDA when you open a SR and I don't know what you think but there are 100x of informations useful to detect fraud in them, no ? There is a blog about CSM in addition to all the notes on Metalink. http://blogs.oracle.com/supportportal Actually Companies like NetApp, EMC or HDS do this for years. I've seen once people from NetApp coming to change disks a Monday morning while the storage team wasn't yet aware they'd lost them. And yes it's frightening to think that your credit card number is actually probably stored in one of those beast. However, I just lost mine in a bus last Friday so I guess the biggest threat may not be where I think (Couldn't it simple be me ;) ). Yes : I know I shouldn't guess ; So I know it's me ! Mark,

There is a bit of confusion down there. What Oracle has removed is the ability to create and store configuration manually in Configuration Support Manager (CSM v2.0 is available now at https://csm.oracle.com/ or from the Configuration Support Manager tab of Metalink )

Thanks God ! You don’t have (for now at least) to have a stored configuration to create a SR even if it could have been useful in the past. However, most of the time Oracle request a RDA when you open a SR and I don’t know what you think but there are 100x of informations useful to detect fraud in them, no ?

There is a blog about CSM in addition to all the notes on Metalink.
http://blogs.oracle.com/supportportal

Actually Companies like NetApp, EMC or HDS do this for years. I’ve seen once people from NetApp coming to change disks a Monday morning while the storage team wasn’t yet aware they’d lost them. And yes it’s frightening to think that your credit card number is actually probably stored in one of those beast. However, I just lost mine in a bus last Friday so I guess the biggest threat may not be where I think (Couldn’t it simple be me ;) ). Yes : I know I shouldn’t guess ; So I know it’s me !

]]> By: Mark Brinsmead http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing#comment-118407 Mark Brinsmead Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:08:23 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing#comment-118407 Well put. It looks like we are *all* going to start getting a lot more familiar with OCM than most of us ever planned to be. Don't get me started about Oracle and product naming though. You might regret it! Well put. It looks like we are *all* going to start getting a lot more familiar with OCM than most of us ever planned to be.

Don’t get me started about Oracle and product naming though. You might regret it!

]]> By: Dan Norris http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing#comment-118315 Dan Norris Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:51:39 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/644/oracle-configuration-manager-bane-or-blessing#comment-118315 Leave it to Oracle to constantly reuse their acronyms. It's like they only know half the alphabet and can't remember that OCM is also Oracle Certified Master. Then again, maybe being an Oracle Certified Master is really the same as being an Oracle Configuration Manager...hmmm. Either way, I'd look forward to using OCM for support issues just about as much as I looked forward to taking the OCM practicum way back when. And, similiarly, I suppose that once it is all over, I will possibly appreciate it more than I do right now...maybe. Leave it to Oracle to constantly reuse their acronyms. It’s like they only know half the alphabet and can’t remember that OCM is also Oracle Certified Master. Then again, maybe being an Oracle Certified Master is really the same as being an Oracle Configuration Manager…hmmm.

Either way, I’d look forward to using OCM for support issues just about as much as I looked forward to taking the OCM practicum way back when. And, similiarly, I suppose that once it is all over, I will possibly appreciate it more than I do right now…maybe.

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