Monitoring Overview

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control monitoring functionality permits unattended monitoring of your IT environment. Enterprise Manager comes with a comprehensive set of performance and health metrics that allows 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).

The Management Agent on each monitored host monitors the status, health, and performance of all managed components (targets) on that host. If a target goes down, or if a performance metric crosses a warning or critical threshold, an event is triggered and sent to Enterprise Manager. Administrators or any interested party can be notified of the triggered event through the Enterprise Manager notification system.

Adding targets to monitor is simple. Enterprise Manager provides you with the option of either adding targets manually or automatically discovering all targets on a host. Enterprise Manager can also automatically and intelligently apply monitoring settings for newly added targets. For more information, see Administration Groups and Template Collections). While Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive set of metrics used for monitoring, you can also use metric extensions (see Metric Extensions: Customizing Monitoring) to monitor conditions that are specific to your environment. As your data center grows, it will become more challenging to manage individual targets separately, thus you can use Enterprise Manager's group management functionality to organize large sets of targets into groups, allowing you to monitor and manage many targets as one.