Preface

This section describes the purpose and organization of this guide: Getting Started with Oracle Change Management Pack. Specifically, it covers the following topics:

Purpose of This Guide

This guide provides an overview of the Oracle Change Management Pack applications and their features. As the guide describes how to use the Oracle Change Management Pack applications, it also introduces you to key Oracle Change Management Pack concepts and terminology.

Intended Audience

This guide is written for those who want to use any of the Oracle Change Management Pack applications.

Knowledge Assumed of the Reader

This guide assumes you are familiar with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console and base applications. If you are not, please read the Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide and the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide.

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Structure

This guide consists of three chapters and two appendices.

Chapter 1, "Overview of the Oracle Change Management Pack"

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Change Management Pack applications, concepts, and features.

Chapter 2, "Using Change Manager"

This chapter describes how to use Change Manager, the central application for the Oracle Change Management Pack.

Chapter 3, "Using Plan Editor"

This chapter describes how to modify and create object definitions using the Plan Editor application of Oracle Change Management Pack.

Appendix A, "Command Line Interface Appendix"

This appendix describes uses for the command line interface for the Oracle Change Management Pack. It also provides syntax and reference information for command line interface commands and describes the exit status codes returned by the command line interface.

Appendix B, "Troubleshooting Appendix"

This appendix describes different ways of troubleshooting problems that may occur when you are using Oracle Change Management Pack applications.

How to Use this Guide

This guide should be read in its entirety to provide you with an overview of each of the Oracle Change Management Pack applications, so that you are familiar with the tasks that can be performed with them. This guide does not describe all the details of using the applications. The online help for the applications provides more detailed information about using these applications.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Pack Information

The Oracle Enterprise Manager product family includes the following packs: Oracle Change Management Pack, Oracle DBA Management Pack, Oracle Diagnostics Pack, Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Applications, Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3, Oracle Standard Management Pack, and Oracle Tuning Pack. Each pack is fully integrated into the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console framework.

Oracle Change Management Pack

Includes Change Manager, Compare Database Objects, Create Baseline, DB Alter, DB Propagate, DB Quick Change, Synchronization Wizard, and Plan Editor.
Tracks metadata changes in databases.
Eliminates errors and loss of data when upgrading databases to support new applications.
Analyzes the impact and complex dependencies associated with metadata change and automatically performs upgrades.
Allows you to find the database objects that match a set of search criteria that you specify.
Initiates change safely with easy-to-use wizards that teach the systematic steps necessary to upgrade.

Oracle DBA Management Pack

Simplifies DBA operations by allowing you to perform them by pointing and clicking with your mouse rather than manually entering SQL commands.
Concurrently performs multiple tasks in multiple Oracle Enterprise Manager windows.
Administers several databases simultaneously.
Centralizes database administration tasks for both local and remote databases running on any Oracle platform in any location worldwide.

Oracle Diagnostics Pack

Includes Oracle Performance Manager, Oracle Capacity Planner, Oracle Trace, Oracle TopSessions, and Oracle Event Tests that are provided with the Oracle Diagnostics Pack.
Monitors, diagnoses, and maintains the health of databases, operating systems, and applications. Real-time analysis is used to analyze current problems, and historical analysis is used to analyze trends that could cause future problems.
Provides powerful capacity planning features that enable users to easily plan and track future system resource requirements.

Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Applications

Includes Oracle Performance Manager, Oracle Capacity Planner, and Oracle Event Tests that are provided with the Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Applications.
Monitors, diagnoses, and maintains the health of Oracle Applications. Real-time analysis is used to analyze current problems, and historical analysis is used to analyze trends that could cause future problems.
Provides powerful capacity planning features that enable users to easily plan and track future system resource requirements.

Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3

Includes Oracle Performance Manager, Oracle Capacity Planner, and Oracle Event Tests that are provided with the Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3.
Monitors, diagnoses, and maintains the health of an SAP R/3 system.
Provides powerful capacity planning features that enable users to easily plan and track future system resource requirements. Real-time analysis is used to analyze current problems, and historical analysis is used to analyze trends that could cause future problems.

Oracle Standard Management Pack

Includes Create Baseline, Compare Database Objects, Change Manager, Oracle Index Tuning Wizard, Oracle Performance Manager, and Oracle TopSessions.
Monitors and diagnoses problems, tunes high impact indexes, and tracks and compares changes in your Oracle environment.

Oracle Tuning Pack

Includes Oracle SQL Analyze, Oracle Expert, Oracle Index Tuning Wizard, Reorg Wizard, and the Tablespace Map.
Optimizes system performance by identifying and tuning major database and application bottlenecks such as inefficient SQL, poor data structures, and improper use of system resources.
Proactively discovers tuning opportunities and automatically generates the analysis and required changes to tune the system. Inherent in the product are powerful teaching tools which train DBAs how to tune as they work.
Instills "Consultant Quality" tuning expertise into developers and DBAs and increases their productivity.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Documentation

The Getting Started with Oracle Change Management Pack manual (this manual) is one of several Oracle Enterprise Manager documents.

Oracle Enterprise Manager base documentation

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Readme provides important notes regarding the online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking information for Oracle Enterprise Manager and the Oracle Management Packs.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide provides an overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager, including the DBA Management Pack.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide explains how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle's systems management console, common services, and integrated platform tool. This manual also describes how to use the DBA Management Pack.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide explains how to configure Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Messages Manual describes the Oracle Enterprise Manager error messages and methods for diagnosing the messages.

Oracle Enterprise Manager and Management Pack Installation documentation

The Oracle9i Database Installation Guide provides important information for installing the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console and the Oracle Management Packs. This manual also contains information such as hardware and software requirements, installable components, and deinstallation procedures. The Oracle9i Database Installation Guide is located on the Oracle9i Online Generic Documentation CD-ROM, Release 2 (9.2) or you can get a free download of the manual from the Oracle Documentation Center at http://docs.oracle.com/.

Oracle Change Management Pack documentation

The Getting Started with Oracle Change Management Pack manual (this manual) provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Change Management Pack applications.

Oracle DBA Management Pack documentation

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide provides overview information about the DBA Management Pack and the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide provides information on how to use the DBA Management Pack and the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console.

Oracle Diagnostics Pack documentation

The Getting Started with the Oracle Diagnostics Pack manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Diagnostics Pack applications.

Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Applications documentation

The Getting Started with Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Applications provides an overview of the concepts and features of the applications in the Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Applications.
The Oracle Intelligent Agent User's Guide provides configuration information and answers to crucial troubleshooting questions pertaining to the Oracle Intelligent Agent.

Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3 documentation

The Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3 Readme provides important notes regarding the Management Pack for SAP R/3 online documentation, updates to the software, and other late-breaking information.
The Getting Started with Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3 manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3 applications.
The Installation Guide for Oracle Enterprise Manager with Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3 provides important information for installing the Oracle Management Pack for SAP R/3. This manual also contains information such as hardware and software requirements, installable components, and deinstallation procedures.

Oracle Standard Management Pack documentation

The Getting Started with Oracle Standard Management Pack manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Standard Management Pack applications.

Oracle Tuning Pack documentation

The Database Tuning with the Oracle Tuning Pack manual provides an overview of the concepts and features of the Oracle Tuning Pack applications. A description of how these applications can work together to tune an Oracle database is also provided.

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