Add Entities Using JSON Files

You can add entities to Oracle Management Cloud by adding the respective JSON files using the omcli add_entity command.

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This section provides information on adding entities using JSON files to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring and Oracle Log Analytics. Oracle IT Analytics and Oracle Orchestration rely on Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring, and the procedures for adding entities are identical.

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Add Entities to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring

Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring, you can monitor a wide range of entities for availability status and performance.

Before you add entities to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring, ensure that you’ve met the following prerequisites:

Set up Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. See the first row in Typical Workflow for Adding Entities.
Determine whether the entity types you want to monitor are currently supported. See Supported Entity Types in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.
Monitoring credentials are required to monitor most entities using Cloud agents and you must determine whether you have to define monitoring credentials for the entity you want to add. See Prerequisites and Monitoring Credentials in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.

Perform the following steps to add entities to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring:

Download the sample JSON files to add entities. See Download and Customize Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring JSONs in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.
Add entities. See Add Entities Using JSON Files in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.

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All hosts are automatically added as entities when a Cloud agent is installed and you don’t have to add them separately. However, monitoring of host entities is disabled by default. For information on how to enable host monitoring, see Enable Host Monitoring in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.

To learn more about adding entities to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring, see the Adding a MongoDB Entity to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring tutorial.

Add Entities to Oracle Log Analytics

Using Oracle Log Analytics, you can view and analyze the logs related to a set of entities.

Before you add entities to Oracle Log Analytics, ensure that you’ve met the following prerequisites:

Set up Oracle Log Analytics. See the first row in Typical Workflow for Adding Entities.
Review the list of entities whose logs are commonly analyzed using Oracle Log Analytics. See Commonly Used Oracle Log Analytics Entities and Additional Entities in Oracle Log Analytics in Using Oracle Log Analytics.

You can now add entities to Oracle Log Analytics. See Add Entities to Oracle Log Analytics in Using Oracle Log Analytics.