Monitoring: Basics

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c comes with a comprehensive set of predefined performance and health metrics that enables automated monitoring of key components in your environment, such as applications, application servers, databases, as well as the back-end components on which they rely, such as hosts, operating systems, storage. While Enterprise Manager can monitor for many types of conditions (events), the most common use of its monitoring capability centers around the basics of monitoring for violation of acceptable performance boundaries defined by metric values. The following sections discuss the basic concepts and Enterprise Manger functionality that supports monitoring of targets.