Discover a Siebel Entity

Siebel Entity Discovery Prerequisites

Before discovering a Siebel entity, ensure you have these requirements in place:
  1. To discover and monitor a Siebel database, create a database user and grant the requisite permissions. For further information see: Entity Monitoring: Prerequisites and Credentials.
  2. To discover an Oracle HTTP Server, ensure that the prerequisites are met. For further information see: Prerequisites and Credentials: Oracle HTTP Server (OHS).
  3. To discover a Tomcat server, ensure that the requirements for Tomcat are in place. Fo further information see: Prerequisites and Credentials: Tomcat

Discover a Siebel Entity

  1. Log in to Oracle Management Cloud as an OMC Administrator. In the left pane, select Administration.
  2. In the left pane, select Discovery and select Add Entity.
  3. In the Add Entity page, provide information about the entity.
  4. In the Entity Type drop down, choose Siebel.
  5. In the Configuration drop down, select the configuration type. Provide information about the entity in the fields that follow.
    For details of the information to be provided, see the follwing tables:

    Table 2-1 Siebel Entity with Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)

    Field With Oracle HTTP Server configuration
    Entity Type Choose Siebel
    Configuration Select With Oracle HTTP Server
    Entity Name Specify a name for the entity
    Siebel Enterprise Server Name Name of your Siebel Enterprise Server
    Siebel Gateway Hostname Hostname of the Siebel Gateway
    Siebel Gateway Port Port number of the Siebel Gateway
    Siebel Gateway Install Directory Path to the directory where Siebel Gateway is installed, this must be accessible to the cloud agent
    Siebel Server Install Directory Path to the directory where Siebel Server is installed
    Database Host Name Name of the database host
    Database Port Port of the Database
    Database Service Name Service Name of your database
    OHS Host Name Host name of your OHS
    OHS Oracle Name Name of your OHS
    OHS Instance Name Instance name of your OHS
    OHS Component Name The OHS component name that your Siebel host connects to
    OHS Version OHS version
    OHS Listen Port Listening port of your OHS
    Protocol Connection protocol
    Cloud Agent Name of the cloud agent running on the Siebel server (but not on the Gateway server)

    Table 2-2 Siebel Entity without Oracle HTTPS

    Field Without Oracle HTTP Server configuration
    Entity Type Choose Siebel
    Configuration Select Without Oracle HTTP Server
    Entity Name Specify a name for the entity
    Siebel Enterprise Server Name Name of your Siebel Enterprise Server
    Siebel Gateway Hostname Hostname of the Siebel Gateway
    Siebel Gateway Port Port number of the Siebel Gateway
    Siebel Gateway Install Directory Path to the directory where Siebel Gateway is installed This must be accessible to the cloud agent
    Siebel Server Install Directory Path to the directory where Siebel Server is installed
    Database Host Name Name of the database host
    Database Port Port of the Database
    Database Service Name Service Name of your database
    Cloud Agent Name of the cloud agent running on the Siebel server (but not on the Gateway server)

    Table 2-3 Siebel Entity with Tomcat

    Field With Tomcat
    Entity Type Choose Siebel
    Configuration Select With Tomcat
    Entity Name Specify a name for the entity
    Siebel Enterprise Server Name Name of your Siebel Enterprise Server
    Siebel Gateway Hostname Hostname of the Siebel Gateway
    Siebel Gateway Port Port number of the Siebel Gateway
    Siebel Gateway Install Directory Path to the directory where Siebel Gateway is installed This must be accessible to the cloud agent
    Siebel Server Install Directory Path to the directory where Siebel Server is installed
    Database Host Name Name of the database host
    Database Port Port of the Database
    Database Service Name Service Name of your database
    Tomcat Host Name Name of the Tomcat host
    JMX Port Number Java Management Extension port number
    Cloud Agent Name of the cloud agent running on the Siebel server (but not on the Gateway server)
  6. In the Monitoring Credentials section, provide the credentials that the cloud agent will use for monitoring the Siebel environment. This includes the credentials for Siebel Server Manager and Database.

    Note:

    The database user is the user you created as part of the prerequisites at the beginning of this task.
  7. Depending on your environment and installation type, you will need to configure credentials:
    • For Siebel with/without Oracle HTTP Server: Choose the applicable combination of Cloud Agent and OHS (Oracle HTTP Server) as per your environment and specify the OHS Host credentials.
    • For Siebel with Tomcat: Choose the applicable combination of Tomcat without credentials or with JMX credentials as per your environment and specify the Tomcat JMX credentials.
  8. In the Entity Attributes section, specify Tags for the entity, select applicable license, and choose whether to associate logs for the entity. This option allows you to view logs for this Siebel entity using Log Analytics. Click Add Entity.

The Siebel Entity is now discovered and ready to be monitored.