In this blog post, we are going to install Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c (12.1.0.2) on CentOS 6.3 64-bit using VMware Workstation 8.
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) has been around since the 8.0 days. What started out as a fairly light-weight client-server GUI tool for managing database functions has morphed into a complex and brittle mess of poor interface design and sloppy coding.
Although 12c is a step up from the god-awful OEM 11g, the hapless Oracle DBA is still left with a muddled mess of an interface and a tool that is likely to cause more headaches than it solves.
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