Prerequisites and Monitoring Credentials

Monitoring credentials are required to monitor most entities using Cloud agents. Defining monitoring credentials is a prerequisite step for adding most entities to your monitoring service. Each entity that requires monitoring credentials must have these created or identified ahead of time. Credentials are then passed on to the Cloud agents using credentials JSON files. In addition to monitoring credentials, some entity types may require additional setup and configuration before they can be monitored by Infrastructure Monitoring. The following table provides links to prerequisite and monitoring credential information.

Entity Type	Entity
Hosts	Host Fujitsu Server Intel/SPARC Computers
Virtual Servers	Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms) Docker Engine / Docker Container XEN Virtual Platform / XEN Virtual Server
Oracle DB Systems Provides single-step discovery of the Oracle DB and all related entities, such as DB, PDB, Clusterware, and Listeners	For more information about discovering Oracle DB Systems, see Add Oracle Database Systems.
Relational Databases	Oracle Database Oracle NoSQL AWS-RDS Oracle DB MySQL Database Microsoft SQL Server
NoSQL Databases	Apache Cassandra DB MongoDB Database
Storage Management	Oracle Flash Storage Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Java Application Servers	Tomcat JBOSS
Java EE Application Servers	Oracle Service Bus Oracle WebLogic Server (includes WebLogic Domain and WebLogic Cluster)
Web Application Servers	Apache HTTP Server Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Load Balancers	Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Physical Switches	Arista Ethernet Switch Cisco Ethernet (Catalyst) Switch Cisco Nexus Ethernet Switch Juniper Ethernet Switch Oracle Infiniband Switch Brocade Fibre Channel Switch ES2 Ethernet Switch
Applications	SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) VMware vCenter Docker Swarm Oracle Access Manager (OAM) Oracle Clusterware (CRS) Oracle E-Business Suite (Workflow for Setting up the Environment) Oracle VM Manager
Firewalls	Juniper SRX Firewall Arbor TMS/CP Juniper Netscreen Firewall
Networking	Juniper MX Router F5 BIG-IP DNS
Other	Oracle Power Distribution Unit (PDU) Apache SOLR Hadoop Cluster Coherence Oracle Unified Directory(OUD) Oracle Internet Directory (OID) Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) Kubernetes Cluster Oracle GoldenGate

Locate the type of entity you wish to monitor. Then, follow the corresponding configuration steps described. Check also My Oracle Support Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Service Master Note (Doc ID 2195015.1) for more release-specific information.