24 Oracle Workflow

Oracle Workflow delivers a complete workflow management system that supports business process based integration. Its technology enables modeling, automation, and continuous improvement of business processes, routing information of any type according to user-defined business rules.

The Oracle Workflow metrics provide information about the Oracle Database in which Oracle Workflow resides.

Response

This metric category contains the metrics that represent the responsiveness of the Oracle Database in which Oracle Workflow resides, with respect to a client.

State

This metric represents the state of the database.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Target Version	Collection Frequency
All Versions	Every 5 Minutes

User Action

Take the appropriate action specific to your site.

Status

This metric checks whether a new connection can be established to a database.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Table 24-1 Metric Summary Table

Target Version	Evaluation and Collection Frequency	Upload Frequency	Operator	Default Warning Threshold	Default Critical Threshold	Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification	Alert Text
All Versions	Every 5 Minutes	After Every Sample	=	Not Defined	0	1	Failed to connect to database: %oraerr%.

User Action

Check the status of the listener to make sure it is running on the node where the event was triggered.

User Logon Time (msec)

This metric represents the amount of time the agent takes to make a connection to the database, measured in milliseconds.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Target Version	Collection Frequency
All Versions	Every 5 Minutes