Beginning with Enterprise Manager 12c, incident management functionality leverages your existing pre-12c monitoring setup out-of-box. Migration is seamless and transparent. For example, if your Enterprise Manager 10/11g monitoring system sends you emails based on specific monitoring conditions, you will continue to receive those emails without interruption. To take advantage of 12c features, however, you may need to perform additional migration tasks.

Rules

When you migrate to Enterprise Manger 12c, all of your existing notification rules are automatically converted to rules. Technically, they are converted to event rules first with incidents automatically being created for each event rule.

In general, event rules allow you to define which events should become incidents. However, they also allow you to take advantage of the Enterprise Manager's increased monitoring flexibility.

For more information on rule migration, see the following documents:

• Appendix A, " Overview of Notification in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control" section "Migrating Notification Rules to Rule Sets" in the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Upgrade Guide.

• Chapter 29 "Updating Rules" in the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Upgrade Guide.

Privilege Requirements

The Create Enterprise Rule Set resource privilege is now required in order to edit/create enterprise rule sets and rules contained within. The exception to this is migrated notification rules. When pre-12c notification rules are migrated to event rules, the original notification rule owners will still be able to edit their own rules without having been granted the Create Enterprise Rule Set resource privilege. However, they must be granted the Create Enterprise Rule Set resource privilege if they wish to create new rules. Enterprise Manager Super Administrators, by default, can edit and create rule sets.