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Announcement Support for this product will end on December 22, 2025. To monitor Oracle databases, we recommend that you use PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database.

Verifying installation requirements

Support for third-party products

To receive full support for a BMC product, you must have that product installed in a supported environment, as specified in the BMC product documentation. If a third-party vendor cancels support for one of its products (such as an operating system or subsystem), and that third-party product integrates or interacts with the BMC product you have licensed, you must upgrade to a supported version of that third-party product before BMC Customer Support can provide you with support for the affected BMC product. For further information, see BMC's product support policy.

Verify that the target computer meets the requirements listed in the following table.

Note

To get complete compatibility information for BMC PATROL for Oracle Database, use the BMC Solution and Product Availability and Compatibility Utility on the Product Availability and Compatibility page.

Any information about UNIX ® in the following table applies to any supported versions of Linux ® unless otherwise specified.

 System requirements for installing PATROL for Oracle Database

Resource

Requirements

Comments

PATROL Agent and consoles

A PATROL Agent and one or more of the following consoles:

  • PATROL Central Operator - Web Edition
  • PATROL Central Operator - Microsoft Windows Edition

PATROL Central consoles are not required, but a PATROL Agent is required for each monitored instance.

Supported Oracle databases

  • 19c
  • 18c
  • 12cR2
  • 12c

 

OS accounts on Windows

If you are installing on Microsoft Windows, a PATROL Windows account

Use the following guidelines when setting up the PATROL Windows account:

  • Before installing PATROL, create a dedicated user account that is either a local or a domain account.
  • Accounts that are on a domain controller must be a member of the domain Administrators group.
  • Do not use a built-in Administrator account.
  • If you are using a domain account, you must specify the NT domain with the user name.

OS accounts on UNIX

If you are installing on UNIX, a PATROL UNIX account

Use the following guidelines when setting up the PATROL UNIX account:

  • The account .login, .profile,.cshrc, and .kshrc files should not contain any customizations, such as aliases, nondefault prompts, unmask settings other than 022.
  • Do not use the root account.
  • The account must have permission to create directories and write the installation logs to the $HOME and /tmp directories on the computer where you are installing products.
  • The account must have ftp and telnet enabled.
  • The account must have access to a root account on the computer where PATROL is installed.

Oracle account

PATROL account for Oracle

Use one of the following accounts for the configuration process:

  • SYS
  • account with the DBA role granted to it

For more information, see Configuring instances for monitoring.

Other optional PATROL products

  • Distribution Server

Distribution Server is required only if you plan to use it to distribute the KM.

  • PATROL Configuration Manager
  • PATROL Knowledge Module for Event Management

The PATROL Configuration Manager and the PATROL KM for Event Management are required if you plan to modify PATROL for Oracle Database. See Using PATROL Configuration Manager to modify and migrate configuration

Security

PATROL for Oracle Database operates in all PATROL security levels.

For more information about security, see Reviewing PATROL security. For information about installing with a firewall, see Firewall and port-forwarding considerations.

Ports

The installation utility might require you to specify the port number for agents

The default port number for agents is 3181.

Disk space needed to install

The following disk space is needed to install PATROL for Oracle Database on agents and console:

  • UNIX Agent - 60 MB
  • Windows Agent - 75 MB
  • Windows console - 68 MB

These numbers are approximate and assume that you are installing PATROL for Oracle.

Disk space used after installation

The following disk space is needed to operate PATROL for Oracle Database on agents and console:

  • UNIX Agent - 30 MB
  • Windows Agent - 30 MB
  • Windows console -10 MB

These numbers are approximate and assume you are operating PATROL for Oracle Database.

Oracle database objects

Requires 10-15 MB available in the default tablespace and the default temporary tablespace.

For more information, see Configuring instances for monitoring.

Oracle database modes

If a database is in restricted mode, you must configure PATROL to monitor the database.

Other settings





SQL Snapshot CPU data retrieval

TIMED_STATISTICS = TRUE

Monitoring high CPU users

TIMED_STATISTICS = TRUE

USRCpuSeconds parameter

TIMED_STATISTICS = TRUE

PQO parameter settings

To monitor a parallel query option (PQO) environment, you must set the PQO parameters in the initialization file (init.ora) for a PQO environment. (The name of the init.ora file can vary. See initialization file.)

MTS or shared server parameter settings

To monitor a multithreaded server (MTS) or shared server environment, you must set the MTS or shared server parameters in the init.ora file for a shared server environment.

TNS_ADMIN

If the file is not in the default location, specify the location of the tnsname.ora file. The TNS_ADMIN environment variable is used to explicitly define the directory location for Oracle Net to resolve where to find its configuration files. TNS_ADMIN overrides the default Oracle Net location. For example, if TNS_ADMIN is set to ORACLE_HOME\test\admin, Oracle Net looks for its configuration files in ORACLE_HOME\test\admin to make a database connection or start other Oracle Networking products such as the Listener, Connection Manager, Names Server, and so on. PATROL for Oracle Database is unable to discover the listener if the value of the TNS_ADMIN environment variable contains ORACLE_HOME.

$ORACLE_BASE environment variable

If you are using $ORACLE_BASE for the diagnostic_dest parameter, you must first set the $ORACLE_BASE environment variable to the appropriate value and then start the PATROL Agent. To resolve the actual value of the $ORACLE_BASE environment variable, set the path in the /OracleConfig.InstanceName.OracleBase pconfig variable to the correct ORACLE_BASE.

Note

This pconfig variable and environment variable setting is applicable only when diagnostic_dest = $ORACLE_BASE is set in the init.ora file.

Note

BMC products are certified for use on supported operating system versions. BMC does not explicitly test for OS patches/updates that are released after a BMC product is released.

BMC products should work fine with minor updates to these supported operating systems. For assistance, please contact BMC Customer Support.

 

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