Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Services

With F5, you get a worldwide Oracle Partner and member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN). F5 and Oracle spent considerable time and effort testing and fine tuning F5 devices with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control services. Specifically, Oracle collaborated with F5 to publish the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) solution for Grid Control Services. This ensures organizations using Oracle and F5 solutions are getting a proven solution that helps lower total cost of ownership and increase return on investment.

Benefits of F5's Application Ready Solution for Oracle Grid Control Services

• The Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control System Monitoring plug-in for the BIG-IP LTM significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing applications that rely on the BIG-IP LTM and Oracle technologies.
• Provides intelligent, optimized traffic management, high availability, and simple scalability
• Ensures a reliable deployment with a tested solution that is part of the Oracle MAA
• Offloads processor intensive tasks (such as SSL processing) saving valuable server resources
• Provides step-by-step deployment guides for F5 devices and Oracle Grid Control that can help drastically reduce deployment cycles

Oracle and F5 spent the time testing and tuning the combined solution so you don’t have to. F5 has carefully documented the procedures in the deployment guide for Grid Control Services, enabling organizations to easily reproduce the results. Using the deployment guide, there is no need to waste valuable IT resources going through trial and error of initial deployment and fine tuning. Once you are up and running, F5’s developer community, DevCentral, has forums, tips and tricks, and other information about Oracle and F5 solutions.

The Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control System Monitoring plug-in for the BIG-IP LTM is available as an open source download from DevCentral (requires free registration). Visit DevCentral to download the plug-in, installation guide, and source code (you must be logged in to access the plug in).

F5's entire portfolio of products works together to ensure your Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control deployment is always secure, fast, and available.