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After successfully deploying the plug-in, follow these steps to add the plug-in target to Cloud Control for central monitoring and management:
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After you deploy and configure the plug-in to monitor one or more targets in the environment, you can customize the monitoring settings of the plug-in. This alters the collection intervals and threshold settings of the metrics to meet the particular needs of your environment. If you decide to disable one or more metric collections, this could impact the reports that the metric is a part of.
After waiting a few minutes for the plug-in to start collecting data, use the following steps to verify and validate that Enterprise Manager is properly monitoring the plug-in target:
The steps for deploying the plug-in are the same for remote Agent monitoring and local Agent monitoring. However, if the Agent is on a remote computer from the plug-in target, certain configuration changes are required to access the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) data on the computer where the plug-in target resides.
In a scenario where Computer A runs the Agent, and the target is installed on computer B, do the following to set up Computer A:
The Agent should now be able to collect data from the remote plug-in target computer. If the configuration above is not initiated, metric collection errors can appear for the plug-in target's metrics.
To ensure that metric collection errors do not occur within Enterprise Manager, Oracle recommends reviewing the Microsoft documentation on the WMI setup. Refer to the Microsoft documentation from the Microsoft website for additional configuration details.
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For remote Agent monitoring with default settings, Cloud Control can monitor only the Active Directory associated with the primary domain controller.
For a remote Agent, the platform to which the Agent is installed can be any Windows type that may not be supported for Active Directory. For example, if Active Directory is running on Windows 2003, you can install the remote Agent on Windows XP to monitor it.