Beauty of command line - OEM 12c

Why all software should have a command line and automation plugin ? Answer is simple - if you have to repeat number of operation for different targets - scripts can help you save your precious time.

I really enjoy a fact that Oracle added a command line to Oracle Enterprise Manager line, and now you can script lot of boring tasks like adding new administrator to list of users who can access Named Credentials.

To add new admin (przepiorom) it's enough to run the following script
 

add_privs.sh przepiorom

This is first draft of this script (no error handling but it's doing his work)

#!bin/bash

NEW_ADMIN=$1

TPID=$$
PRIV_LIST=`emcli list_named_credentials | awk '{ print $1; }' | grep -v Credential  > /tmp/priv_$TPID`


while read LINE ; do
        echo $LINE
        emcli grant_privs -name="${NEW_ADMIN}" -privilege="FULL_CREDENTIAL;CRED_NAME=${LINE}:CRED_OWNER=sysman"
done > /tmp/priv_$TPID

rm /tmp/priv_$PPID

The next example is an another script which is refreshing a Weblogic domain components.
When a new version of application is deployed a previous one are still registered as a targets and you will see it as down in your OEM.

There is a domain refresh command in OEM menu but if you have more systems going through all of those is not what you want. Using a command line and configuration file you can be done with one line.

emcli login -username=sysman -password=xxxxxxx -force
emcli refresh_wls -input_file=domain_refresh_file:/home/oracle/bin/domain_refresh_file.csv –debug

Content of domain_refresh_file.csv looks like this:

/xxx_soa_mot_domain_soa/soa,R
/xxx_soa_mot_domain_soa/soa,E

There is a one line per target split into two parts.
First part of line is a target name and domain name, ex. /xxx_soa_mot_domain_soa/soa Second part is operation: 
R - remove target which doesn't exist in domain anymore 
E - enable refresh of domain (aka. add monitoring targets)


regards,
Marcin