The Oracle Database Appliance plug-in enables you to monitor Oracle Database Appliance targets using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. Additionally, the plug-in provides a custom discovery process which collects credentials, discovers and validates configurations, and gives you the ability to group Oracle Database Appliance systems during discovery.
The plug-in supports all Oracle Database Appliance hardware platforms and Oracle Appliance Manager versions 12.1.2.2.0 and later.
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
Monitoring Oracle Database Appliance hardware and software components (DB, ILOM, HOST, Virtual Machines, Hypervisor, ASM, and Oracle Appliance Manager) as a group under an Oracle Database Appliance target.
See Chapter 5, "Monitoring Oracle Database Appliance" for information on how to use these monitoring 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
See Chapter 3, "Oracle Database Appliance Discovery" for instructions on how to setup Oracle Database Appliance discovery targets.
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 and later
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (12.1.0.4) and later