Oracle offers a number of management packs for the Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server. For example, management packs available with the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 include: Database Change Management Pack, Database Configuration Pack, Database Diagnostics Pack, and Database Tuning Pack.
Oracle Application Server supports the following packs: Application Server Configuration Pack and Application Server Diagnostics Pack.
Each pack has several premium features bundled as part of that pack.
The licensable targets (also called parent targets) that are granted access to the packs, propagate that access to their dependent targets. For example, all packs that are granted to a database, propagate to the host on which the database resides.
Whether a target has access to a pack or not has a very significant impact on the user experience. The corresponding links related to the target, which need the pack, are enabled or disabled accordingly.
To know what packs a page needs, as well as the links in that page, click Show Management Pack Information in the page footer.
When the access to a pack is removed from a target, all corresponding links which need this pack are disabled.
In Enterprise Manager, the user will see that:
Links to such pages are disabled
Buttons, which lead to such pages, are disabled
Images, that lead to pages that are not granted access, are disabled
When the user types in the URL to such a page in his browser window or maintains a bookmark to such a page, he sees the 'No License' page. The 'No License' page contains the list of packs the blocked page needs for it to be displayed.
Related Topics
About Agreeing to Management Pack Access
How Management Pack Access Control Works
How to Change Access to Management Packs
Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap
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