Oracle Enterprise Manager Licensing

The short answer: Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) has two licensing parts. The base functionality is included at no extra charge with the Oracle software licenses and support you already own. Add-on management packs and plug-ins are licensed separately. On Oracle’s price list of 15 September 2026, Diagnostics Pack is US$7,500 per processor (US$150 per Named User Plus) and Tuning Pack is US$5,000 per processor (US$100 per Named User Plus). Support is 22% a year on top. This article was first written in August 2024, and we keep it under review as Oracle’s policies change.

What is Oracle Enterprise Manager?

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s tool for managing the Oracle stack in traditional and cloud environments.

How is Oracle Enterprise Manager licensed?

There are two parts to licensing Oracle Enterprise Manager:

• Enterprise Manager base functionality
• Add-on options: management packs, management plug-ins and other products that extend Enterprise Manager for specific purposes

Oracle Enterprise Manager base functionality

The base installation includes several features free of charge with the purchase of any Oracle software license or support contract. The products that provide base functionality are:

• Oracle Database
• Oracle middleware products, such as WebLogic
• Oracle engineered systems, such as Exadata
• Private Cloud Appliances
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Features in the base functionality

These features are free across the product sets you have purchased.

• Agent Management: start, stop, restart and change agent configuration, and view agent health from the agent home page.
• Agent Provisioning and Patching: automate deployment of agent software and patches to target servers.
• Agent-based Target Discovery: discover the targets running on a host by deploying the agent.
• Alerts and Metric Threshold Management (excludes notifications): set metric thresholds and view alerts. Notifications need one or more licensed packs.
• Auto Discovery: discover hosts on a network and bring them under Enterprise Manager.
• Enterprise Manager App for Grafana: show Enterprise Manager metric data in Grafana dashboards.
• Enterprise Manager Federation: define all your Enterprise Manager sites and reach key information from a single interface.
• Enterprise Manager Mobile: monitor Enterprise Manager sites from the mobile app on Apple and Android devices.
• Enterprise Manager Self-Management and Monitoring: view Management Services, Repository pages and reports, and the Enterprise Manager topology.
• Enterprise Manager Support Workbench: access Checker Central diagnostics, run EMDiag Kit, and package problem information for Oracle Support.
• Groups and Systems Management: manage multiple targets as one.
• Information Publisher and Reporting: create and manage reports in the built-in reporting tool or in BI Publisher. Some reports are licensed under packs.
• Job Diagnostics Dashboards: diagnose problems and performance issues in the job system.
• Job System and Corrective Actions: automate routine tasks and respond automatically to metric alerts.
• Monitoring and Incident Management: monitor targets singly or in groups, and manage incidents generated from events.
• My Oracle Support integration: manage service requests and read Knowledge Base articles without leaving Enterprise Manager.
• Oracle Linux Virtualization (OLV): monitor Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager with predefined performance and health metrics.
• Parallel OMS Upgrades: upgrade the primary OMS, then all additional OMS at the same time.
• Self-update: update Enterprise Manager with new features or fixes from Oracle Technology Network or My Oracle Support. Functionality in plug-ins may be licensed under packs.
• Extensibility Development Kit (EDK): tools, utilities, sample code and documentation to build plug-ins for new target types.
• Software Library (excludes licensed software): manage patches, virtual appliance images, gold images and application software. Anything that is part of a licensed pack is excluded.
• User, Role and Credentials Management: manage user access, roles and the credentials used to reach targets.
• vCPU Utilization Tracking: track and report Oracle product vCPU use on supported engineered systems.

Free features with Oracle Database

Users of Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition databases can use the base framework features and the base database management features below.

• Add Protected Database for ZDLRA: Recovery Appliance administration using the Add Protected Database operation.
• Advisor Central: start advisors such as Segment Advisor and Memory Advisor. Some advisors are licensed under packs.
• Data movement: configure and manage data movement between databases using streams, replication and Data Pump.
• Database Migration Workbench: migrate on-premises databases to Autonomous Database, with post-migration analysis and performance comparison.
• Error management: view error history from the alert log, and package errors and trace files into incidents for My Oracle Support.
• Execute SQL REST API: run SQL and extract data through HTTP-based REST endpoints.
• Grid Infrastructure management: manage Grid Infrastructure, including ASM and Clusterware.
• High availability: configure backups, start recovery, set up flashback, manage standby databases, and check against Maximum Availability Architecture.
• Non-structured data management: manage OLAP, XML and text data.
• Object, program and initialization parameters management: manage tables, indexes, views, PL/SQL and Java programs, and initialization parameters.
• Optimizer Management: manage optimizer statistics and SQL plans. Some SQL Plan Control capabilities are licensed under packs.
• Patch Recommendations: My Oracle Support critical patch recommendations.
• Pluggable Database (PDB) Create/Plug/Unplug: create a PDB from seed, plug in or unplug a PDB (single target operations only).
• Resource Management: define and assign resource plans to consumer groups.
• Scheduler Central: manage automated jobs, including Automatic Maintenance Tasks.
• Security: manage users, roles and profiles, and configure Virtual Private Database policies. Some security pages are licensed under the matching security option, such as Database Vault or Audit Vault.
• SQL Execution: view SQL execution history and run SQL in Run SQL or SQL Worksheet.
• Space and Undo Management: manage control files, tablespaces, datafiles, log files and automatic undo.
• Support Workbench: view critical errors in the Automatic Diagnostic Repository and create incidents for My Oracle Support.
• Upgrade Planner: My Oracle Support Upgrade Planner.
• Workspace management: keep different versions of table row values in different workspaces.

Where to find more detail

Oracle lists the base functionality for middleware and engineered systems in its Enterprise Manager base functionality documentation.

Middleware management. Only the target home page itself is unlicensed. All links from it, including metric links to historical metrics, belong to the matching middleware management pack and need a license.

What you must buy separately

These products add functionality to Enterprise Manager and are purchased separately. Oracle’s price list of 15 September 2026 lists Diagnostics Pack at US$7,500 and Tuning Pack at US$5,000 per processor. Check the Oracle technology price list for the others.

• Oracle Diagnostics Pack
• Oracle Tuning Pack
• Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database
• Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack
• Oracle Real Application Testing
• WebLogic Server Management Pack Enterprise Edition
• SOA Management Pack Enterprise Edition
• Management Pack for WebCenter
• Management Pack for Oracle Coherence
• Management Pack for Oracle Data Integrator
• Business Intelligence Management Pack
• Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database
• Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Management Pack Plus for Identity Management
• Configuration Management Pack for Applications
• Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware
• System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Middleware
• System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Databases
• Application Management Suite for Siebel
• Application Management Pack for Fusion Applications
• Application Management Suite for Fusion Applications
• Application Management Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite
• Application Management Suite for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• Application Management Suite for PeopleSoft Enterprise
• Oracle Real User Experience Insight
• Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Service Level Management

Packs are a common source of audit findings because they are installed and switched on by default. Read how to disable Oracle options and packs.

Questions we are asked about Enterprise Manager licensing

Is Oracle Enterprise Manager free?

The base functionality is free with any Oracle license or support contract. The management packs are not.

How much do the Diagnostics and Tuning Packs cost?

US$7,500 and US$5,000 per processor on the price list of 15 September 2026, with 22% annual support. Per Named User Plus they are US$150 and US$100.

If you need help with an internal audit of your Oracle deployment, see our license review and audit advisory or read about us.