1. Oracle GoldenGate System Monitoring Plug-In Installation and Upgrade Guide
  2. Getting Started with Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate

1 Getting Started with Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate

This document provides a brief description of the Enterprise Manager Plug-in for Oracle GoldenGate, details on the releases the plug-in supports, downloading, deploying, and upgrading the plug-in.

Topics

1.1 What is Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate

The Oracle GoldenGate Enterprise Manager Plug-In extends the Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) Cloud Control to support monitoring and managing Oracle GoldenGate processes. By deploying it in your Cloud Control environment, you gain the following features:

  • Visually monitor current Oracle GoldenGate metrics and historical trends.

  • Generate automatic alerts and incidents when thresholds are breached.

  • Start, stop, kill, and resume individual processes.

  • View and modify existing configuration files.

  • View error logs, Oracle GoldenGate error logs, report files, and discard files.

  • Audit user access of privileged EM Plug-in features and instance-level security for user creation.

1.2 Supported Platforms and Releases

Supported Platforms

This topic discusses the platforms and releases that are supported by Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate.

  • Ensure that you are installing your product on a supported hardware or software configuration.

    See the Certifications tab on My Oracle Support for details.

    Attention:

    Oracle has tested and verified the performance of your product on all certified systems and environments; whenever new certifications occur, they are added to the proper certification document right away. New certifications can occur at any time, and for this reason the certification documents are kept outside of the documentation libraries and are available on Oracle Technology Network.

  • The Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate supports monitoring of all platforms where both Oracle GoldenGate Classic and Oracle GoldenGate Microservices Releases 12.3 and later, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Agent and later instances can run.

  • DB2 z/OS and DB2 for i don't support the installation of the Enterprise Manager and EM Agent. Monitoring of Oracle GoldenGate instances is achieved through remote Enterprise Manager Agent and Oracle GoldenGate Monitor Agent installed on these operating systems (supported with changes in the OEM and Oracle GoldenGate configuration).

  • Oracle GoldenGate for HP NonStop is not supported.

Supported Releases

The Oracle GoldenGate Enterprise Manager Plug-In supports the following product releases:

  • Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 4 (13.4.x) and later.

  • Oracle GoldenGate versions supported include:

1.3 Before You Begin with Enterprise Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate

Oracle Enterprise Manager for Oracle GoldenGate has a number of prerequisites that must be performed before you can get started with deploying and using the product.

Software Requirements

  • The following must be installed and running:

    • Oracle GoldenGate to support monitoring by Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.

    • Oracle GoldenGate Monitor Agent for monitoring Oracle GoldenGate classic instances (not required for Oracle GoldenGate Core Microservices Architecture (MA) instance monitoring); the installation location you chose is referred to as OGG_AGENT_ORA_HOME in this document. This location is not necessarily the Oracle GoldenGate installation location.

    • Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control (Oracle Management Service (OMS)) and Oracle Management agent).

      Note:

      On the system, where OMS is installed, ensure to keep the ulimit value (Max. No. of processes) to unlimited.

  • Ensure that an Oracle Management agent is installed on each system, which are hosting Oracle GoldenGate instances, and you wish to monitor.

    For more information about the supported releases see Oracle GoldenGate Interoperability with Other Fusion Middleware Products in Understanding Interoperability and Compatibility Guide.

  • To configure the Software Library, see Configuring a Software Library in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administrator’s Guide.

Verify Your Environment Meets Certification Requirements

Make sure that you are installing your product on a supported hardware or software configuration. For more information, see the certification document for your release on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Supported System Configuration page.