Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Discover Oracle Cloud Database Systems

Before you discover Oracle Cloud Database Systems in Database Management, you must:

The Oracle Cloud Database System discovery process includes the following main operations:

  1. Selecting a Management Agent installed on one of the nodes of the Oracle Cloud Database to discover the associated components as part of one Oracle Cloud Database System.
  2. Selecting the components that you want to register and adding connections to monitor and manage them using Database Management.
  3. Reviewing the selected components and adding the Oracle Cloud Database System components.

To discover an Oracle Cloud Database System in Database Management:

  1. Sign in to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console.
  2. At the top of the page, ensure that the region in which you want to discover the Oracle Cloud Database System is selected.
    Note

    Cross-region monitoring and management of Oracle Cloud Database Systems is not available.
  3. Open the navigation menu, click Observability & Management. Under Database Management, click Administration.
  4. On the left pane, select the compartment in which you want to discover the Oracle Cloud Database System and select the Oracle Database cloud solution in the Deployment type filter.
  5. Click Discover Cloud Database System.
  6. On the Select agent page of the Discover Cloud Database System panel:
    1. Select the VM cluster from the list of VM clusters in the compartment, to discover its components.
    2. Select the Management Agent installed on one of the nodes of the Oracle Cloud Database to establish a connection and discover the Oracle Cloud Database System.

      It may take some time for the selected Management Agent to discover the Oracle Cloud Database System, and you can click View work request to monitor the work request and view the associated log and error messages. Once the operation is completed, the Oracle Cloud Database System is discovered and its components are listed.

    3. Optionally, click Show advanced options to add free-form or defined tags to the Oracle Cloud Database System. If you have the permissions required to discover an Oracle Cloud Database System, then you also have permissions to add free-form tags. To add a defined tag, you must have permissions to use the tag namespace.
      Note

      It's recommended that you set values for the Oracle-Standard tags as these tags ensure consistency across your tenancy.

      For information on:

    4. Click Next.
  7. On the Select components page of the Discover Cloud Database System panel:
    1. In the Database system section, review the Oracle Cloud Database System details.
      Note

      The Full management option is required to monitor Oracle Cloud Database System components. If the databases only have the Basic management option, you can click Upgrade and switch to Full management. For information on the Full management option, see About Management Options.
    2. Review the list of components in the Oracle Cloud Database System and add connections to the components that you would like to monitor using Database Management. To establish a connection, click Add connection in the Connection column. For information, see Add Connections.
      Note

      As a prerequisite task, you must ensure that Diagnostics & Management is enabled with the Full management option for at least one of the databases in the Oracle Cloud Database System.

      If you do not want to monitor a component using Database Management, then deselect the component.

    3. Optionally, click Show advanced options to add free-form or defined tags to the Oracle Cloud Database System.
    4. Click Next.
  8. On the Review and create page of the Discover Cloud Database System panel, review the Oracle Cloud Database System details, the tags added to the Oracle Cloud Database System, if any, and the components that will be monitored by Database Management, and click Create.

    A work request is submitted to add the Oracle Cloud Database System with the selected components. Click View work request to view the OCID of the work request and the discovery resource, monitor the work request, and view the associated log and error messages. You can also monitor the completion status of the work request on the Review and create page, and as the selected components are registered, the corresponding status is changed to Done.

  9. Click Close to go back to the Managed databases page.
A link with the name of the Oracle Cloud Database System is displayed in the Database System column for the Oracle Cloud Database with which it's associated. To view a list of all the External and Oracle Cloud Database Systems being monitored by Database Management in the compartment, click Database Systems on the left pane.