Foglight for Oracle (Cartridge) 5.9.2.1

Filter by database type — if multiple database types are being monitored, click the database type tile that represents the requested type (in this case, Oracle).

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Filter by severity — use the status indicators to display only instances of a specific database type that share a specific health state severity. For further details, see Filtering the Display by Severity .

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Create user-defined groups — use the Databases area to create groups that contain only the databases that need to be monitored for a specific need. For further details, see Creating User-defined Database Groups .

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Assign Instances to specific users — When accessing a Database dashboard, non-administrative users will view only instances which have been assigned to them. For details, see Assigning Instances to Users .

View the selected instances’ severity level, using the status indicators.

Click the requested instance to view a cue card with a preview of the instance’s most significant performance indicators.

Click Home Page on the cue card to launch a full-screen view of the requested instance.


	IMPORTANT: Launching a full-screen view of the requested database by clicking the Home Page link can be carried out only for instances monitored in Foglight for Oracle mode.

Filtering the Display by Severity

The Status Indicators section can be used for filtering the Databases Group table to display only instances that meet a criterion set in this section.

To filter the display by severity:

Click a a certain type of severity within a a specific database type (for example: Oracle instances whose severity level is Critical).

The selected filter is shown in the table’s title.

To select another filter, click the required status indicator (for example: Oracle > Normal severity).

Creating User-defined Database Groups

Use the Databases area of the navigation pane to create, edit, and remove groups of database instances. Click Edit Group to add or remove database instances from the sub-group.

To create a database group:

Select the parent database instance group, Database Group, under Databases in the navigation pane.

Click the

button.

The Add Group dialog box opens.

Type a name for the group in the Name field.

Type a description for the group (optional).

Select an instance in the Available column, and click [>] to move the instance to the Selected column.

Alternatively, click [>>] to move all of the databases to the Selected column.

Click OK.

The group name appears in the Database Groups list.

The database instances are listed in the Databases pane.

After adding one or more user-defined groups, it is possible to add sub-groups to these groups.

To add sub-groups to a selected group:

Position the cursor on the requested group’s name.

Repeat Step 2 to Step 6 described in To create a database group: .


	NOTE: The Add Group dialog box displays the name of the parent group in the Parent field. Before proceeding, ensure that the sub-group is added to the requested group.

To remove a database group:

Select the group to be removed.

Click the

button.

The Remove Groups dialog box appears, asking approval to remove the selected group with all its sub groups.

Click Remove.

The group is removed from the Database Groups list.

To edit a database sub-group:

Select the requested group.

Click the

button.

The Edit Group dialog box opens.

To add an instance to the group, select the requested instance in the Available column and click [>] to move the selected instance to the Selected column.

To remove an instance from the sub-group, select the requested instance in the Selected column, and click [<].

The selected instance moves to the Available column.

Click OK.

Components Shared by All Foglight for Oracle Screens

The tables’ Customizer button and the In-context action buttons are common to all Foglight for Oracle screens.

The Customizer button — use this button, which is found on the upper right corner of each table, to create a custom filter for the table. The filter is created by clicking Customizer and specifying the criteria that the various values should meet in order to be displayed in the table (having a specific name, exceeding a certain size, and so on). For detailed instructions and examples, see Foglight User Guide > Working with Dashboards > Working with Tables.

Figure 1. Customizer button

In-context actions buttons — found on the upper right corner of all screens:

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Refresh — clicking this button retrieves the data acquired using the most recent sampling.

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Agent Settings — when using panels whose configuration is set using the Databases Administration dashboard, clicking this button opens the relevant screen in the Databases Administration dashboard (for example, clicking this button from within the Databases > Locks panel opens the Locks screen).

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Useful links — used for carrying out further investigation using the following external sources:

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What’s New? — provides information about new features implemented and issues resolved in the current release.

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Release Notes — provides a link to the Foglight for Oracle Release Notes.

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Deployment Guide — provides a link to the Foglight for Databases Deployment Guide.

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Topology Mapping — opens the Oracle_Topology_Mapping.csv file.

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Ask Foglight Community — provides a link to the forum for Foglight products.