Perform Optional Prerequisites

Prerequisites for enabling additional capabilities such as log data collection from other PeopleSoftPeopleSoft components, or monitoring the underlying hosts or enabling application performance monitoring.

Install Cloud Agents for Additional Log Data Collection

In order for Oracle Management Cloud to collect log data for a PeopleSoft application, you must install a cloud agent on each host where any PeopleSoft related log files reside.

Here are some of the reasons for performing this optional prerequisite task:

To enable additional log data collection shown in some dashboard widgets.
To enable automatic log association during PeopleSoft discovery. If you complete this task after the discovery of PeopleSoft Application composite, then you must manually associate the log sources with the PeopleSoft entities.

Installing Cloud Agents for Logs Collection

Task	Description
Task 1: Install cloud agents.	Install cloud agents on the remaining application tier hosts and database hosts within the PeopleSoft environment. Note that the Operating System user installing the agent must have read access privileges on the PeopleSoft log files. You would already have downloaded the cloud agent software for completing the prerequisite steps in Install a Cloud Agent for Discovery. You can use the same software for completing this step. See Install Cloud Agents in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.
Task 2: Verify the deployment.	See Verify the Cloud Agent Installation in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.

Task

Description

Task 1: Install cloud agents.

Install cloud agents on the remaining application tier hosts and database hosts within the PeopleSoft environment. Note that the Operating System user installing the agent must have read access privileges on the PeopleSoft log files.

You would already have downloaded the cloud agent software for completing the prerequisite steps in Install a Cloud Agent for Discovery. You can use the same software for completing this step.

See Install Cloud Agents in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.

Task 2: Verify the deployment.

See Verify the Cloud Agent Installation in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.

Enable Host Monitoring

When you install a cloud agent, the underlying host with the agent installation is automatically discovered and added as an entity in Oracle Management Cloud. However, the host monitoring is not enabled by default.

If the host monitoring is not enabled, then some of the widgets in the dashboards that display host data will not function as expected. To enable it, see Enable Host Monitoring in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.

Install APM Agent

In order to access Application Performance Monitoring capabilities like isolating application performance issues or monitoring end users, you must install an APM Agent on each host that's running a PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture (PIA) instance.

While this agent is not required for monitoring the application, Oracle recommends installing it to gain additional value from Oracle Management Cloud for your PeopleSoft deployment.

To install the APM agent on a PIA host, see Install and Configure APM Java Agent On Oracle Weblogic Server in Installing and Configuring Oracle Application Performance Monitoring

For PeopleSoft running on PeopleTools 8.55, see Install and Configure APM Java Agent on Peoplesoft in Installing and Configuring Oracle Application Performance Monitoring.