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Foglight for Oracle (Cartridge) 6.3.0 - User Guide

Table of Contents

Installing and Configuring Agents

Installing and Configuring Agents Upgrading to the Current Version Overview Running the Upgrade Wizard Migrating Agents

About Monitoring Extensions

Configuring the On Demand Port on the Agent Manager Concentrator

Installing and Monitoring a Single Oracle Instance Discovering Multiple Instances to Monitor

Loading a TNS file

Adding CRS Agents for Monitoring Clusterware

Adding Agents for Monitoring Exadata Environments

Modifying the Exadata Monitoring Settings

Adding Data Guard Environment Adding ASM Instances Configuring Multiple Instances for Monitoring using Silent Installation

Contents of the input CSV file for Oracle instances Configuring Multiple Instances for ASM Contents of the input CSV file for ASM instances

Using Foglight for Oracle

Viewing the Databases Dashboard Assigning Instances to Users Selecting an Instance to Monitor

Filtering the Display by Severity Creating User-defined Database Groups Components Shared by All Foglight for Oracle Screens Using the Currently Selected Database Group Table Viewing Data about the Exadata Cells

Foglight for Oracle Overview Dashboard

Breakdown and Baseline Chart Formats Home Page Toolbar

Overview view Advisories view SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI)

Performance Tree Viewing Historical Metrics Blocking History Activity Highlights Viewing Change Tracking Viewing Execution Plans Comparing Performance

Oracle Activity Drilldown

Viewing the Foglight for Oracle Real-time Summary Page Reviewing Instance Usability Reviewing Cluster Usability Reviewing Locks Activity at the Cluster Level Reviewing Locks Activity at the Instance Level Locks Historical Tree Viewing Detailed Sessions Data Viewing Datafiles I/O Activity at the Cluster Level Viewing Datafiles I/O Activity at the Instance Level Viewing User-Defined Collections

Pluggable Databases Drilldown

Pluggable Databases List table Overview tab Activity within Instance/Cluster tab

Storage Drilldown

Tablespaces and Datafiles Panel Redo Logs Panel Members of Group [n] Table Fast Recovery Area Panel Archive Logs Panel Archive Log Destinations Table Invalid Objects Panel Database Backup Panel

Reviewing Configuration Settings

Reviewing SGA Settings at the RAC Level Reviewing SGA Settings at the Instance Level Reviewing the Initialization Parameters

Reviewing the Alert Log

Reviewing the Alert Log

Reviewing Monitored Data Guard Environments

Reviewing Summary Information Reviewing Performance Information Reviewing Log Shipping Status Information

Reviewing ASM Instances

Reviewing Summary Information Reviewing Parameter Information Reviewing Alert Log Information

Reviewing Exadata-related Information

Displaying Exadata-related Summarized Data Reviewing the Exadata Performance Reviewing the InfiniBand Topology

Administering Foglight for Oracle

Opening the Databases Administration Dashboard Reviewing the Administration Settings Defining Connection Details

Defining the Connection Settings for the Monitored Oracle Instances Validating Connectivity and Starting to Monitor the Instances Defining the Connection Settings for the Monitored ASM Instances

Defining Data Collection and Storage Options Customizing Alarms for Foglight for Oracle Rules

Introducing the Alarms View Viewing Alarm Sensitivity Levels for Unassigned Agents Modifying Alarm Templates Configuring Email Notifications Cloning Agent Settings Reviewing Rule Definitions

Defining Retention Policies Defining the Collection Settings

Locks Top SQL Statements Tablespace Filtering Invalid Objects Filtering

Configuring the Alert Log Filtering Panel Display Configuring the List of Listeners per Instance Configuring User-defined Collections Configuring the On-demand Data Port Changing the Monitoring Mode of the RAC One Node Agents Administering SQL Performance Investigator

Generating Reports for a Foglight for Oracle RAC or Instance Studying the Various Reports

Overview of Collections

Alert Log Archive Destination Miscellaneous Archive Logs Storage ASM Diskgroups ASM Diskgroups Balance ASM Disks ASM Instance Total ASM Operations Backup Config Backup Jobs Backup Type Status Cluster Latency Cluster Misses Datafile Fragmentation Datafile IO Activity Datafiles Storage Dataguard Destination Status Dataguard Redo Apply Dataguard Status Dump File Event Wait Exadata Cell Flashcache Exadata Cell General Exadata Cell InfiniBand Exadata Cell InfiniBand Ports Exadata Cell InfiniBand Switches Exadata Cell Statistics Exadata Cell General Filesystem Disk Flashback Area History Locks Tree Instance History Locks Tree RAC Host Properties Initialization Parameters Instance General Invalid Objects Invalid Objects List IO Activity Jobs Queue Latches Activity Locks Activity Locks Breakdown Locks Instance Locks Tree Locks Tree RAC Long Running Session OS and Instance Statistics OS File System IO Summary OS General Network Summary Parallel PGA Statistics Pluggable Databases Information Pluggable Databases State Redo Archive Performance Redo Instances Miscellaneous Redo Logs Member Storage Redo Log Storage Sessions Summary Servers Tablespaces Free Space Fragmentation Tablespaces Storage Top Blocked Objects Top Sessions Top SQLs Top SQLs Full Text Top SQLs Text Total Archive Storage Total Database Storage Total Instance Waits Undo Activity Total Summary Usability

Alarm Authentication Buffer Wait Calibration Cartridge Cluster Wait CPU Usage CPU Wait Cursors DataGuard DataFlow Deadlock Disk Transfer Time Disk Utilization DiskPerf Dispatcher Drilldown External Procedures Foglight Agent Manager Foglight Management Server Host Name Host Process I/O Wait Kernel Memory Kernel Mode Kill LRU LSN Latch Wait Licensing Lock Wait Logical Reads Metric Network Wait OLTP Other Wait Paging Panel Per-Seat Licensing Per Server Licensing Physical Reads PID Privileged Mode Process Random I/O Recompile Recursive Calls Referential Integrity Relational Data Engine SQL*Net Scattered Read Schema Locks Sequential Read Severity Spinner SQL *net Threshold Transaction Unused Space User Mode

Using the Currently Selected Database Group Table

The currently selected database group table displays the following columns.

Table 3. Currently Selected Database Group Table

The highest severity alarm of the Oracle database (whether a database instance, RAC or RAC node), which determines the database’s health state.

The name of the Oracle instance, RAC or RAC node. In addition, this row includes the Go to Home Page button.

The version number of the Oracle database instance.

The date and time that the Oracle database instance (or, in a RAC, the instance that was the earliest to restart) was last restarted.

The workload (average active sessions) for the Oracle database instance or RAC. When holding the cursor over the workload graph, the dwell displays a chart that shows the workload history over the specified time range.

The number of warning, critical, and fatal alarms for the Oracle database instance/RAC.

When holding the cursor over one of the alarm counts, the dwell displays the most recent alarms invoked for this database, sorted by severity.

Clicking this field displays the Alarms list, which is listed by severity order. See the Foglight Online Help, Monitoring System-Wide Alarms for details on the alarm information.

System Utilization

The name of the computer that is hosting the database instance or RAC.

The overall operating system CPU usage by all processes (including CPU usage by the database).

The percentage, within the total memory, of memory consumed by all operating system processes (including the database). This value includes both RAM resident memory and swapped memory.

The percentage of time the busiest device spent serving system-wide input/output requests. This metric serves as a measure for the system I/O load.

Monitoring Status

The operational status of the monitoring agent.

When the agent instance is running, the State icon () is green, and holding the cursor over the icon displays the message Collecting Data.

When the agent instance is running but not collecting data, holding the cursor over the icon displays one of the following status messages listed below.

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When SQL PI is configured the SQL PI icon is displayed.

The status of the OS data retrieval.

NOTE: While the Foglight for Oracle agent retrieves OS data, several OS metrics cannot be retrieved without the Infrastructure cartridge agent. IF OS monitoring was disabled during the creation of the Foglight for Oracle agent through the Oracle Monitoring Installer wizard, the wizard cannot automatically create the Infrastructure cartridge agent; However, this agent can be created manually using the Dashboards > Hosts > Hosts dashboard. For details, see Adding a Monitored Host in the Foglight for Infrastructure User and Reference Guide.

NOTE: If the Infrastructure agent was created, but OS database is collected only by the Foglight for Oracle agent, click the OS status to OS data collection through the Infrastructure agent.

Viewing Data about the Exadata Cells

The table displayed in the Exadata tab contains the following columns.

Table 4. Exadata table
Name	Description
Exadata
Sev	The highest severity alarm invoked within all cells monitored by the selected agent, which determines the agent’s health state.
Name	The name of the Exadata agent.
Version	The version number of the Oracle Linux used for running the Exadata storage server.
Online Cells	The number of cells monitored by the selected agent that are currently online.
Temperature Status	The temperature status of all cells monitored by the selected agent, as provided by the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC); indicates whether the temperature is normal. Any deviation from the normal temperature value, which is determined by Oracle, invokes an alarm indicated using an orange color on this column.
Total Read Rate (Mb/S)	The rate (megabytes/second) at which data was read from all celldisks during the specified time range.
Total Written Rate (Mb/S)	The rate (megabytes/second) at which data was written on all celldisks during the specified time range.
Alarms	The number of warning, critical, and fatal alarms for the celldisks. When holding the cursor over one of the alarm counts, the dwell displays the most recent alarms invoked for these celldisks, sorted by severity. Clicking this field displays the Alarms list, which is listed by severity order. See the Foglight Online Help, “Monitoring System-Wide Alarms” topic for details on the alarm information.
System Utilization
CPU Load (%)	The overall operating system CPU usage by all processes (including CPU usage by the database).
Memory (%)	The percentage, within the total memory, of memory consumed by all operating system processes (including the database). This value includes both RAM resident memory and swapped memory.
Monitoring Status
	Indicator whether data is being collected.

Foglight for Oracle Overview Dashboard

Foglight for Oracle Overview Dashboard

The Foglight for Oracle Overview dashboard provides various detailed views that are accessible using the toolbar.

The Overview dashboard contents depends on whether a RAC (Real Application Cluster) or an Oracle database instance is selected.

Breakdown and Baseline Chart Formats

Several charts can display information in either of the following formats:

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Baseline format — where a selected individual metric is displayed as a single line.

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Breakdown format — a representation of actual activity of a metric or a set of metrics, compared with the typical behavior of these metrics for the selected time range. A breakdown display can also present a single metric divided into various components. For example, space utilization is broken down by the various components that occupy the space.

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