The Grid control ⇐11g and Cloud control >= 12c, represent centralised interface for monitoring and managing Oracle databases. It can server as a central interface to administer many databases on one customer and recognised configurations such as: RAC (Real Application Clusters) and Guard. Furthermore, with the Grid Control / Cloud Control, an administration is able to configure Data guard and have good performance views. The Grid control / Cloud control is composed of:

• Installation & Deployment (On Client)
• Plugin Installation (On OMS)

• OMS Server
• Repository
• Offline update