Configuration Management for Siebel in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (White Paper)

Oracle White Paper
Oracle Best Practices for Managing Siebel: Configuration Management for Siebel in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Executive Overview
The task of managing configuration parameters in a dynamic, multi-target environment can be extremely challenging. A large, production scale environment can have dozens of unique targets, and each target can have several hundred different configuration parameters. Given the number of possible permutations, the task of managing the latest, or correct, values is beyond human capability. Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control (EM 12c), with the Siebel Plug-in, provides advanced, out-of-the-box tools to manage the complexity of Siebel configuration management. EM12c has advanced configuration capture, change detection, and comparison reporting capabilities that can dramatically reduce the amount of time that System Administrators spend on configuration management.
The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide instructions on Oracle’s Best Practices for managing Siebel Configurations. It will address the following:

• Understanding Comparison Templates in EM 12c
• Creating Configuration Templates for Siebel Servers, Components Groups, and Components
• Using Configuration Templates to compare Siebel Servers
• Analysis of Configuration Comparison results
• Using Configuration Templates for Siebel Patch Analysis

The benefits of using Configuration Templates to manage Siebel Applications are substantial, and include:

• Easily compare configuration parameters for targets within a Siebel Enterprise, or between two different Siebel Enterprises
• Easily compare configuration parameters for a Siebel target against a gold standard or baseline.
• Define comparison reports once and re-run multiple times

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/app-mgmt/twp-siebel-config-mgmt-2184387.pdf