Perform the Prerequisite Tasks
To get started with Oracle IT Analytics, you must enable the license editions and install the cloud agents. Cloud agents collect performance and metric data from entities that you want to monitor and upload the data to Oracle Management Cloud. To complete these tasks, you must have the Oracle Management Cloud Administrator role.
If the Oracle Management Cloud Administrator role isn’t assigned to you or you’re not sure, then ask your system administrator to ensure that the correct role is assigned to you in Oracle Management Cloud. See Modifying User Roles in Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud and About Oracle IT Analytics Roles and Users.
You can use Oracle IT Analytics to monitor Autonomous Databases, which include Autonomous Data Warehouse – Shared and Autonomous Transaction Processing – Shared. The prerequisite tasks to set up Oracle Management Cloud to work with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, discover Autonomous Databases, and assign the required privileges to users are different from the tasks listed in the following table. See Set Up Oracle Database Management for Autonomous Databases in Using Oracle Database Management for Autonomous Databases.
| Task | Required / Optional | Description |
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| Task 1: Install a gateway on a host in your data center (the host should have internet access to Oracle Management Cloud) | Optional | A gateway acts as a channel between Oracle Management Cloud and all other Oracle Management Cloud agents.
See Install a Gateway in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
| Task 2: Install a data collector on the target host (a host on which the Oracle Management Repository is present or another host with SSH access to the remote host) | Required when using Oracle Enterprise Manager to harvest entities into Oracle Management Cloud
Note: The Data Collector is optional if you are not harvesting entities from Oracle Enterprise Manager into Oracle Management Cloud |
A data collector is required only if you want to collect data from entities that are monitored by an existing on-premises Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.
See Install a Data Collector in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
| Task 3: Install Cloud Agents. | Required, Cloud Agents must be installed as Data Collectors by themselves are not sufficient. | If you are using Oracle Enterprise Manager and installing a Data Collector, you are required to install Cloud Agents on the same hosts where the EM agents are installed. The Cloud Agents collect performance data from Oracle Database targets for Database Performance Analytics and SQL Analytics applications.
If you are not using Oracle Enterprise Manager and installing a Data Collector, install Cloud Agents on hosts where your entities to be discovered reside. See Install Cloud Agents in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
| Task 4: Define monitoring credentials | Required only if not using a Data Collector | Monitoring credentials are required to collect performance and availability metrics by using cloud agents. See Prerequisites and Monitoring Credentials in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
| Task 5: Enable secure database communication on the cloud agent | Required for database entities if you are using TCP settings for the listener. | Enable the TCPS connections to facilitate communication between the cloud agent and the secure database. See Enabling TCPS Connections under Oracle Database in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
| Task 6: Add entities. | Required only if you are not using a Data Collector and are adding entities via a Cloud Agent. | Add the entities that your cloud agent will monitor.
Oracle IT Analytics makes use of the entities discovered from Oracle Enterprise Manager (via Data Collector, if you’ve installed one). If you want to monitor the performance and availability of entities by using cloud agents, add entities to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. See Adding Entities for Infrastructure Monitoring in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
Task 7: Assign licenses.
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Required | Oracle IT Analytics is available to you as part of the Oracle Management Cloud – Enterprise Edition.
Option 1: Enable license editions from the Oracle Management Cloud console. Assign the Enterprise Edition automatically to all entities.See Auto-Assign License Editions to All Entities in Getting Started with Oracle Management Cloud. Option 2: If you do not enable auto-assignment of license editions, then after you’ve added entities, you can assign Enterprise Edition license to selected entities. See Assign License Editions to Selected Entities in Getting Started with Oracle Management Cloud . |
Note:
If you are using a previous version of Oracle Management Cloud, which allows you to enable a standalone service on entities, then after you’ve deployed your cloud agent, you can enable Oracle IT Analytics on an entity or a set of entities. You can perform this task from the Administration console of Oracle Management Cloud. See Enabling or Disabling Services on Entities in Working with Oracle Management Cloud.