8.1 Manage Credentials

The Enterprise Manager Credential subsystem enables the Enterprise Manager Administrators to store credentials in a secure manner — as preferences or operation credentials. The credentials can then be used to perform different system management activities, such as real-time monitoring, patching, provisioning, and other target administrative operations.

You need to set the Preferred Credentials and Monitoring Credentials for Oracle GoldenGate Classic as well as Oracle GoldenGate Microservices (MA) instances. However, Monitoring credentials are auto set after discovery.

Before setting credentials, you can neither view the target Metrics nor can access the log files. You can also notice that the process action buttons (the Start and Stop buttons) are also disabled. These buttons are grayed out.

Figure 8-1 Action Buttons are not active

Before setting credentials, you will notice the Start and Stop buttons are grayed out.

Figure 8-2 Action Buttons are active

After credentials are set, the Start and Stop buttons become active.
For more information about managing events, incidents, and problems, see Managing Events, Incidents, and Problems in the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administrator's Guide. For a list of common elements available for all the targets, see Elements for Monitoring Targets.