1.3.3 About Oracle Enterprise Manager for Oracle Exadata

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a complete target that enables you to monitor Oracle Exadata, including configuration and performance, in a graphical user interface (GUI).

The following figure shows the Exadata Storage Server Grid home page. Viewing this page, you can quickly see the health of the storage servers, key storage performance characteristics, and resource utilization of storage by individual databases.

Figure 1-5 Exadata Storage Server Grid home page in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Description of "Figure 1-5 Exadata Storage Server Grid home page in Oracle Enterprise Manager"

In addition to reports, Oracle Enterprise Manager enables you to set metric thresholds for alerts and monitor metric values to determine the health of your Exadata systems.