1 Introduction to the Oracle Database Appliance Plug-in

The Oracle Database Appliance plug-in features monitoring dashboards and streamlined target discovery. The plug-in supports all Oracle Database Appliance hardware platforms and Oracle Appliance Manager software versions 12.1.2.2.0 and later. See the following topics for more details:

1.1 Oracle Database Appliance Plug-in Features

The Oracle Database Appliance plug-in release 12.1.0.1.0 includes the following features:

1.1.1 Monitoring Features

With the Oracle Database Appliance plug-in, you can monitor Oracle Database Appliance targets using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. The plug-in provides seamless integration with supported Oracle Database Appliance software so that you can receive information about any Oracle Database Appliance target. Features include:

  • Monitoring of the Oracle Database Appliance as an Enterprise Manager target

  • Monitoring a dynamic group of Oracle Database Appliance systems using tags

  • Oracle Database Appliance components (DB, ILOM, HOST, Virtual Machines, Hypervisor, ASM, and Oracle Appliance Manager) are grouped and can be monitored under a target

1.1.2 Target Discovery Features

The target discovery process is streamlined and simplified with the Oracle Database Appliance plug-in. Features include:

  • Custom discovery process which collects credentials, discovers and validates configurations, and gives you the ability to group Oracle Database Appliance systems during discovery

  • Discovery prerequisite checks updates, including:

    • Check for critical configuration requirements

    • Prevent discovered targets from being rediscovered

  • Credential validation and named credential support

  • Ability to apply a custom name to the Oracle Database Appliance target

1.2 Oracle Database Appliance Plug-in Supported Hardware and Software

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c and the Oracle Database Appliance plug-in are supported on the following Oracle Database Appliance configurations:

  • All Oracle Database Appliance hardware configurations from Version 1 through X5-2

  • All Oracle Appliance Manager software versions from 12.1.2.2.0

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (12.1.0.4) and later