Product overview

PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database enables you to monitor and manage the availability and performance of resources in an Oracle environment. It provides visual warnings and alarms when thresholds are exceeded, and allows an easy identification of the problem. The monitoring tool is designed for remote monitoring using a certified JDBC connector provided by Oracle. The KM provides full support for TrueSight components. The KM provides availability metrics for different Oracle architectures and some performance metrics for certain areas, such as space management, buffers, and sessions. Database can be configured on the following environments:

PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database includes the Java Runtime Environment process and matrix that the BMC PATROL console or TrueSight console use for system monitoring and analysis activities. Those matrices include availability and statistic parameters that report on the status of an Oracle standalone local or remote instance database. 

User roles

User Role

Product goal

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New user

Learn and understand the product.

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IT Operation users

View all data in the system.

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Technology Specialists

  • Install the system.
  • Configure the system.

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Solution Administrators

  • Plan the solution.
  • Install the system.
  • Configure the system.
  • Troubleshoot the system.

 

Product features

The PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database provides these capabilities for addressing the following business goals:

Features

Capabilities

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Monitoring

Monitor the performance of the following items:

  • Cluster components
  • Cluster nodes
  • Cluster controllers 
  • Cluster workloads (Deployment, ReplicaSet, DaemonSet, and StatefulSet of the cluster)

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Creating filters for monitoring

  • Include or exclude Namespaces from monitoring
  • Enable or disable container monitoring

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Viewing performance graphs

View graphs created by using the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of the monitor type. By using the graphing options, you can dynamically change the metric or other graph data. 

Graph data can be viewed hourly, weekly, monthly, and quarterly.

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Viewing events

View intelligent events on the selected attributes and for the selected duration. PATROL Agent events that are associated with monitors are also considered intelligent events.

 

 

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