Ray, This list of tasks from the "Getting Started with Enterprise Manager" chapter of the EM 12c Basic Installation Guide may help get you started: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/getting_started.htm#CIHIEDAI Also, as I mentioned in my earlier email, the 3-day "Using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control" course is already available and covers the day-to-day operations of managing Cloud Control: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=609&p_org_id=1001&lang=US&get_params=dc:D73244GC10,p_preview:N Topics covered in the "Using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control" course include: - Monitoring Cloud Control - Managing Cloud Control Security - Controlling Cloud Control Components - Configuring Cloud Control Alerts and Notifications - Backup and Recovery: Repository, OMS and OMA The course that is under development is the Enterprise Manager Advanced Configuration course. It should be released very soon. Jenny On 9/25/2012 8:14 AM, Ray Stell wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Peter Sharman wrote: >> >> From your postings on oracle-l, you've been around Oracle for quite a >> while, but I can't recall what your level of knowledge of earlier >> releases of EM specifically have been. If you can clarify that I >> might be able to point you in the direction of more relevant material >> for your existing knowledge set. > > My reply to this got tagged for over quoting. Don't know if it will > ever surface, so i'll correct my error and send this. Sorry if it > duplicates: > > Like I said, I'm a beginner with OEM. I'm an overworked, but capable > dba/sysadmin. I've just been using dbconsole for the operators since > it was not a struggle to manage. 1484775.1 seems to change that game. > Another platform I manage, postgresql, is really well documented and > very friendly. They tell you what you need to know to manage the > product once you own it: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/maintenance.html > > I see nothing like this overview of required management tasks with > OEM. Most software products are just ticking time bombs if you don't > care and feed them. There needs to be an entry point and overview of > the product management tasks that lead to the details in the larger > documentation like the postgresql people have provided, imho. Sounds > like there is a class being developed to cover this idea. For now, > I'll just wander through the docs and try to piece it together: > > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e24473/toc.htm -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l