About Configuring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Stack Monitoring for PeopleSoft Applications

Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform Stack Monitoring lets you proactively monitor an application and its underlying application stack, including application servers and databases. The process starts by discovering all application components, including the application topology. Once discovered, it automatically collects status, load, response, error, and utilization metrics for all these components.

This document explains how configure Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform Stack Monitoring for PeopleSoft applications, including application servers, web servers, and Container and Pluggable database (CDB and PDB) servers . In this use case applies to PeopleSoft and databases running on a single node. It has been deployed from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) marketplace app.

About Product Versions

This solution supports the same versions supported in Gen 1, thus any PeopleSoft application based on PeopleTools 8.56 and later will be supported (this solution was tested on PeopleTools version 8.59). Officially, this solution requires the following product and service versions:

  • PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2 Update Image 45
  • PeopleTools 8.59.14
  • Oracle Database 19.3.0.0
  • Elasticsearch 7.10.0
  • Kibana 7.10.0
  • Logstash 7.10.0
  • Oracle Linux 7.9

Review the Steps for Completing this Solution

To complete PeopleSoft component discovery for stack monitoring, you need to do the following:

  1. Create dynamic groups and policies.
  2. Install the management agents and deploy the plugins.
  3. Discover the Container and Pluggable databases.
  4. Discover PeopleSoft.
  5. Complete the post discovery tasks.