1. Cloud Control Monitoring Guide
  2. Enterprise Monitoring
  3. Comprehensive Out-of-Box Monitoring

Comprehensive Out-of-Box Monitoring

Monitoring begins as soon as you install Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. Enterprise Manager's Management Agents automatically start monitoring their host's systems (including hardware and software configuration data on these hosts) as soon as they are deployed and started. Enterprise Manager provides auto-discovery scripts that enable these Agents to automatically discover all Oracle components and start monitoring them using a comprehensive set of metrics at Oracle-recommended thresholds.

This monitoring functionality includes other components of the Oracle ecosystem such as NetApp Filer, BIG-IP load balancers, Checkpoint Firewall, and IBM WebSphere. Metrics from all monitored components are stored and aggregated in the Management Repository, providing administrators with a rich source of diagnostic information and trend analysis data. When critical alerts are detected, notifications are sent to administrators for rapid resolution.

Out-of-box, Enterprise Manager monitoring functionality provides:

  • In-depth monitoring with Oracle-recommended metrics and thresholds.

  • Monitoring of all components of your IT infrastructure (Oracle and non-Oracle) as well as the applications and services that are running on them.

  • Access to real-time performance charts.

  • Collection, storage, and aggregation of metric data in the Management Repository. This allows you to perform strategic tasks such as trend analysis and reporting.

  • E-mail and pager notifications for detected critical events.

Enterprise Manager can monitor a wide variety of components (such as databases, hosts, and routers) within your IT infrastructure.

Some examples of monitored metrics are:

  • Archive Area Used (Database)

  • Component Memory Usage (Application Server)

  • Segments Approaching Maximum Extents Count (Database)

  • Network Interface Total I/O Rate (Host)

Monitoring Without Management Agents

When it is not practical to have a Management Agent present to monitor specific components of your IT infrastructure, as might be the case with an IP traffic controller or remote Web application, Enterprise Manager provides Extended Network and Critical URL Monitoring functionality. This feature allows the Beacon functionality of the Agent to monitor remote network devices and URLs for availability and responsiveness without requiring an Agent to be physically present on that device. You simply select a specific Beacon, and add key network components and URLs to the Network and URL Watch Lists. Enterprise Manager monitoring concepts and the underlying subsystems that support this functionality are discussed in the following sections.