Oracle Standalone Database

You can use the information in this topic to configure an Oracle Enterprise Database monitoring policy with the BMC Helix Operations Management and TrueSight console.

This topic includes the following information:

Before you begin

You must download and install PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database. For more information, see Installing and Performance-and-scalability-data.

To configure the monitor type

In the Add Monitoring Configuration panel, select the following parameters for the Oracle Enterprise Database KM:

Parameter	Selection
Monitoring Solution	Oracle Enterprise Database
Monitoring Profile	Oracle Environment Monitoring
Monitor Type	Oracle Standalone Database

In the Global Monitoring Setting, you can enable Logging for all configured Patrol Agent environments to confirm that all PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database environments are correctly configured.

To add an environment configuration

Click Add and enter the details in the Environment Configurations pane.

Field	Description
Environment name	Enter a unique name for the environment. We recommend using alphanumeric characters for the environment name. Warning Note The name cannot include blank spaces or any of the following special characters: # $ \ ' \| ~ ! @ % ^ ; ` ( ) { } ? \ " [ ] + = & : > < * / Do not use non-English characters to specify an environment name. Once you save the environment configuration, you cannot change the name without losing the environment's historical data. You can change the environment name by making a copy of the monitoring solution and then you can change the environment name.

Field

Description

Environment name

Enter a unique name for the environment. We recommend using alphanumeric characters for the environment name.

Note

The name cannot include blank spaces or any of the following special characters: # $ \ ' | ~ ! @ % ^ ; ` ( ) { } ? \ " [ ] + = & : > < * /
Do not use non-English characters to specify an environment name.
Once you save the environment configuration, you cannot change the name without losing the environment's historical data. You can change the environment name by making a copy of the monitoring solution and then you can change the environment name.

The remaining environment details are in the following sections:

Standalone instance connection details
Monitoring Categories details
Jobs
Environment Settings details

Standalone instance connection details

Field	Description
Oracle host	Enter the host name or the IP address of the standalone Oracle database. You can use the $HOSTNAME variable for the Oracle host. The IP address can be in the IPv4 or IPv6 format. An example of an IPv6 address is [2001:db8:28:3:f98a:5b31:67b7:67ef].
Oracle port	Enter the port number to connect to the standalone Oracle database. The default port number is 1521.
Oracle connection method	Specify the Oracle connection method: Service SID
Oracle connection name	Enter the name of the Oracle database service or SID to monitor. The service or SID name appears in the tnsnames.ora file. Use the command lsnrctl services <listener_name> to find the service name.
Connect as SYSDBA	Select this option to connect to the Oracle instance as SYSDBA privileged user. Note: We do not recommend to monitor using a user with SYSDBA privileges.
User name	Enter the user name to connect to the Oracle database. Note: Confirm that the user has permission for object access, see Monitoring-categories-and-user-permissions.
Password Confirm password	Enter the password to connect to the Oracle database. Confirm the password. Warning If you are using vault to access the password in BMC Helix Operations Management, enter the query string in the Password and Confirm password field.
Oracle Custom SQL Queries
Query name	Enter the name for the SQL query. Warning Note The name cannot include blank spaces or any of the following special characters: # $ \ ' \| ~ ! @ % ^ ; ` ( ) { } ? \ " [ ] + = & : > < * / After you save the environment configuration, you cannot change the name without losing the environment's historical data. You can change the environment name by making a copy of the monitoring solution and then changing the environment name.
SQL query	Enter the SQL query command. Warning Note The SQL query must not contain the semicolon (;).
Collection time (min)	Enter the SQL query collection time. The default collection time is 10 minutes.
Enable number of records annotation	Select this option to display the query result as an annotation on number of records metric.

Monitoring Categories details

Select the Oracle Database activity categories that you want to monitor.

Monitoring Categories	Description
ASM	Select this checkbox to monitor the performance of the Oracle Database ASM disks. For more information, see the ASM-Disk-KOE_INST_ASM_DISK monitoring category.
Fast Area Recovery	Select this checkbox to monitor the performance of the Oracle Fast Recovery Area disks. For more information, see the Oracle-Fast-Recovery-Area-KOE_INST_FRA monitoring category.
Listeners	Select this checkbox to monitor the listener port of the Oracle Database. For more information, see the Listeners-KOE_INST_LISTENER monitoring category.
Operating System usage	Select this checkbox to monitor the operating system utilization statistics and system resources. For more information, see the Oracle-OS-Usage-KOE_INST_OS monitoring category.
Pluggable Database	Select this checkbox to monitor the pluggable databases. For more information, see the Pluggable-Database-KOE_INST_PLUGGABLE_INSTANCE monitoring category.
Services	Select this checkbox to monitor Oracle services running inside the database. For more information, see the Services-KOE_INST_SERVICE monitoring category.
Sessions	Select this checkbox to monitor the sessions activity of the Oracle Database. For more information, see the Sessions-KOE_INST_SESSIONS monitoring category.
System	Select this checkbox to monitorthe system performance of the Oracle Database. For more information, see the System-KOE_INST_SYSTEM monitoring category.
UNDO Usage	Select this checkbox to monitor the UNDO space usage in the system. If the Oracle Database is set for automatic UNDO_MANAGEMENT, this monitoring category is not created for this monitoring policy. For more information, see the UNDO-Usage-KOE_INST_UNDO monitoring category.
Users	Select this checkbox to monitor the Oracle Database users activity. For more information, see the Users (KOE_INST_USERS) Users-KOE_INST_USERS monitoring category.
Wait Events	Select this checkbox to monitor the wait events in the Oracle Database. For more information, see the Event-Class-KOE_INST_EVENT_CLASS monitoring category.

Jobs

Field	Description
Jobs	Select this option to monitor the jobs and transactions running in the Oracle Database.
Long running job time (min)	The duration for jobs that are running longer than the defined duration (default 30 minutes). Any job that exceeds this duration sets an alert.
Job overdue time (min)	The duration for jobs that are overdue because they are not executed (2 minutes late). These jobs may be delayed, broken, or failed. For more information, see Jobs-KOE_INST_JOBS.

Tablespaces

Field	Description
Tablespaces	Select this option to monitor the tablespaces. To configure thresholds and categorize Oracle and Pluggable tablespaces as large or very large, see Configure large and very large tablespace categorization.
Tablespaces filtering options
Filtering mode	Select the filtering mode: None Include Exclude
Include/Exclude matching criteria	Based on the selection of the filtering mode, specify the tablespaces to include or exclude from monitoring. Use comma (,) only to separate the tablespaces. For example, consider the tablespace name is DB12, you can use any of the following methods to include or exclude tablespaces from monitoring: Starts with: ^DB.* Contains: .B1. Ends with: .12$ Equals to: DB12 Warning Note* Be cautious when you add spaces while entering the regex search string. Extra space is considered as a character by the search string.

Filter for top n queries by total wait time

For more information, see Monitoring-of-wait-time-attributes-of-SQL-query.

Field	Description
Total wait time monitoring	Select this option to enable the filter for top n queries by total wait time.
Top Number of queries	Enter the number of queries that you want to filter. This is a mandatory field. The valid input range is 1-100.
Maximun query instances limit	Enter the maximum number of query instances to filter. This is a mandatory field. The valid input range is 1-2500.
Number of days to keep query instances	Enter the number of days to keep the query instance. This is a mandatory field. The valid input range is 1-60.

Environment Settings details

Field	Description
Logging	Select this option to enable detail-level logging for all PostgreSQL databases configured on this environment to get more details about policy configuration and data collection. The log files are created under PATROL_HOME directory: Java: PATROL_HOME/Patrol3/koekm/logs/java PSL: PATROL_HOME/Patrol3/log/koe-*.kmlog For more information about logging, see Using-debug-logging-in-the-TrueSight-Infrastructure-Management-operator-console.
Device mapping	By default, device mapping on the TrueSight console is enabled. If enabled, all the Oracle Database instances are discovered under the Oracle host device. If it is disabled, all the Oracle Database instances are discovered under the PATROL Agent host device.
Java collector settings
Java path	Enter the path to the JRE directory (also known as $JAVA_HOME environment variable) on the PATROL Agent host. If you use the $JAVA_HOME variable, the Java location depends on the following: No user name and password are entered for the Java collector settings; the KM uses the Java location of the user running the PATROL Agent. A user name and password are entered for the Java collector settings; the KM uses Java location of the user entered in the collector settings. If you enter a path for the JRE directory, you must enter the full path, such as C:\Program files\Java\jre1.8.0_151. Do not use the short path format. If you do not enter a value in this field, the KM looks for the Java installed in the PATROL Agent home directory as: Linux: $PATROL_HOME/../openjdk; $PATROL_HOME/../jre64 Windows: %PATROL_HOME%/../openjdk; %PATROL_HOME%/../jre64
JVM arguments	Enter the optional Java Virtual Machine (JVM) arguments for the Java collector.
User Name	Enter the local user name to start the Java process.
Password Confirm Password	Enter the password to start the Java process. Confirm the password.
Collection settings
Availability collection interval (min)	Enter the time interval used to check for the availability of environment for collecting data. The default interval is one minute.
Data collection interval (min)	Enter the time interval used for data collection from the environment. The default interval is five minutes. Note: Entering a data collection time that is less than 5 minutes will result in a performance issue for the KM.
Long running data collection queries (min)	Enter the time interval used to determine when a running query is blocked. The query is blocked because its execution duration is equal to, or greater than, this interval's threshold. The default interval is 30 minutes.
Wait time sql data collection interval (min)	Enter the total time interval in minutes to collect or report the value for the wait time SQL attributes. This attribute is valid for SQL instances attributes only. The default wait time for SQL data collection time is 5 minutes. The valid input range is 5-60. Warning For more information, see Monitoring-of-wait-time-attributes-of-SQL-query.

Where to go from here

Verifying-the-configuration