1 Introduction to Lifecycle Management
This chapter covers the following:
Information Map for Lifecycle Management Solutions
Table 1-1 lists the chapters and sections relevant to the various lifecycle management solutions offered by Cloud Control. Consider this an information roadmap to learn about the solution and perform the required operations.
Table 1-1 Information Map for Lifecycle Management Solutions
Domain | Target Name | Solution Area | Reference Links |
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Database | Single-Instance Database | Discovery | |
Provisioning | |||
Upgrade | Upgrading Databases | ||
Patching | Patching Software Deployments | ||
Change Management | Manage Database Schema Changes | ||
Configuration Management | Manage Configuration Information | ||
Compliance Management | Manage Compliance | ||
Enterprise Data Governance | Managing Enterprise Data Governance | ||
Change Activity Planner | Overview of Change Activity Planner | ||
Oracle Real Application Server (Oracle RAC) | Discovery | ||
Provisioning |
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Patching |
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Change Management |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Enterprise Data Governance |
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Change Activity Planner |
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Oracle RAC One Database | Discovery | ||
Provisioning | Provisioning Oracle Real Application Clusters One (Oracle RAC One) Node Databases | ||
Change Management | Manage Database Schema Changes | ||
Configuration Management | Manage Configuration Information | ||
Compliance Management | Manage Compliance | ||
Enterprise Data Governance | Managing Enterprise Data Governance | ||
Change Activity Planner | Overview of Change Activity Planner | ||
Pluggable Database | Discovery | ||
Provisioning | |||
Oracle Database Replay Client | Discovery | ||
Provisioning | Provisioning Oracle Database Replay Client | ||
Change Management | Manage Database Schema Changes | ||
Configuration Management | Manage Configuration Information | ||
Compliance Management | Manage Compliance | ||
Enterprise Data Governance | Managing Enterprise Data Governance | ||
Change Activity Planner | Overview of Change Activity Planner |
Overview of the New Lifecycle Management Solutions
In today's world, with the cloud infrastructure, numerous low cost servers and software deployments on those servers have brought in a fresh set of lifecycle management challenges. The challenges range from discovering and monitoring the health of existing software deployments to provisioning new software deployments and maintaining them over a period of time.
Besides that, other problems include difficulty in managing consistency and compatibility across these software deployments and operating systems, managing configuration changes, and managing security vulnerabilities that lead to lack of compliance.
These lifecycle management challenges eventually force you to engage more human resources and devote significant amount of time in managing the data center operations.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (Cloud Control) offers lifecycle management solutions that help you meet all lifecycle management challenges easily by automating time-consuming tasks related to discovery, initial provisioning and cloning, patching, configuration management, ongoing change management, and compliance management.
Figure 1-1 illustrates the lifecycle management solutions offered by Cloud Control.
Figure 1-1 Lifecycle Management Solutions

Table 1-2 describes each of these lifecycle management solutions.
Table 1-2 Lifecycle Management Solutions
Solution Area | Coverage |
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Discovery |
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Provisioning |
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Patching |
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Change Management |
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Configuration Management |
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Compliance Management |
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Enterprise Data Governance |
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Change Activity Planner |
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Note:
The provisioning and patch management solutions are essentially based on deployment procedures, which are Oracle-supplied predesigned procedures that help you accomplish the provisioning and patching tasks. Deployment procedures contain a hierarchal sequence of steps, where each step might contain a sequence of other steps. Essentially, they encapsulate the workflow of all the tasks that need to be performed for a provisioning or patching operation. For more information about deployment procedures, see About Deployment Procedures. For information about the default deployment procedure that you must use for your provisioning or patching operation, refer to the respective chapters.