Enterprise Manager - Advanced Backup Strategies

Oracle's recommendation for an Enterprise Manager backup can be found in "Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Advanced Installation and Configuration Guide", chapter "Backing Up and Recovering Enterprise Manager".

Basically, the recommendation consists of (only) three steps:

·      Software Library Backup

·      Management Repository Backup

·      Oracle Management Service Backup

·      Exportconfig

·      Software Homes

But we have a lot more important stuff within Enterprise Manager which is worth to be backed up, haven't we? Monitoring Templates for example, Metric Extensions or properties which were changed (either possibly or probably), … But, where to get this information from and how to extract it from Enterprise Manager's guts? Repository, emctl and emcli are the keywords – here's how to …:

Software Library Backup

… of course worth a frequent backup. IMHO the best way to get the latest information about the current path is to query the repository database:

select
  base_path
from EM_SWLIB_OMS_LOCATIONS_E
where name ='default_loc';

Put the result in a variable and issue something like this:

tar cvfz software_library.tar $<variableName>/*

Management Repository Backup

… as a DBA You know how to backup an oracle database. I'm sure …

Oracle Management Service Backup

… as oracle's manual states, use

emctl exportconfig oms

And the additional stuff, I was talking about?

OMS Properties

Backup the OMS properties – even if You've never changed them – by issuing an 

emctl list properties

Redirect the result to a file having a timestamp or a sequential number in its filename and You're save.

Monitoring Templates

To backup Monitoring Templates use this SQL, spool the output to a file and execute the file:

select
'emcli export_template -name='''||template_name||''' -target_type='||target_type||' -output_file=$BACKUP_DIR/MT_'||template_name||'.xml'
from sysman.mgmt_templates
where is_public = 0
order by template_name ;

Metric Extensions

Developing Metric Extensions is a time consuming task – so backup the MEs frequently. It is that easy (spool and execute the spool file):

select
'emcli export_metric_extension -file_name=''$BACKUP_DIR/'||name||'_V'||version||'.xml'' -target_type='||target_type||' -name='''||name||''' -version='||version
from SYSMAN.EM_MEXT_VERSIONS_E
order by name, version;

Incident Rulesets

Your Incident Rulesets are candidate to be backed up, too (spool and execute):

select
'emcli export_incident_rule_set -rule_set_name='||ruleset_name||' -rule_set_owner='||owner||' -export_file="$BACKUP_DIR"'
from EM_RULE_SETS
where owner not in ('SYSMAN', '<SYSTEM>')
order by owner, ruleset_name;

Information Publisher Reports

Did You write Information Publisher Reports? Backup them (redirect to a file and execute)!:

emcli get_reports | sed "s/, / /g" | awk 'BEGIN{ FS=","}{x=$1; gsub(/ |-|=|:|\/|\(|\)/, "",x); print "emcli export_report -title="$1" -owner="$2" -output_file=${BACKUP_DIR}/REP_"x".xml" }'

Interested in more possibilities?

emcli offers some more export commands – "emcli help | grep -I export" extracts them from emcli's help text. Perhaps You'll find the one You're searching for.

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