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Foglight for Oracle (Cartridge) 5.7.5.50 - 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)

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 Setting and Modifying Alarm Sensitivity Levels Modifying Alarm Settings 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 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

Top SQLs Text

The Top SQLs Text collection retrieves the first n characters of the skoal statement text (the exact number of the characters is defined in the Top SQL Statements pane of the Collection Settings screen).

Collection Type

Collection Sampling Settings

This collection retrieves SQL text only for new hash values.

Metric Descriptions


Metric	Description
Hash Value	The SQL statement’s hash value.
Is Full Text	A boolean value that indicates whether the first n characters are a full or partial SQL text for the current cursor.
SQL Text	First n characters of the SQL text for the current cursor.

Total Archive Storage

The Total Archive Storage collection collects disk space data for critical archive destinations.

Collection Type

Collection Sampling Settings


Frequency Mode	Collection Interval (Seconds)
Realtime Collection	300
Online	900
Offline	3600

Metric Descriptions


Metric	Description
Archive Destination Free Space	The free space size (in megabytes) in the file system where the most critical archive destination resides.
Archive Destination Size	The total size (in megabytes) of the file system where the most critical archive destination resides.
Critical Archive Time To Failure	The number of hours remaining until the archive destination with the shortest time to failure is filled.
Destination	The destination ID of the most critical archive destination.

Total Database Storage

The Total Database Storage collection retrieves the database’s total storage, that is: the summarized value of total free space and total allocated space.

Collection Type

Collection Sampling Settings


Frequency Mode	Collection Interval (Seconds)
Realtime Collection	300
Online	900
Offline	3600

Metric Descriptions


Metric	Description
Maximum Used Percent	The maximum percent of the used disk space of all the database datafiles.
Total Allocated Space	The total size (in megabytes) of allocated space in the database.
Total Allocated Space Delta	The incremental change in the total size of the database’s allocated space during the specified time range.
Total Allocated Space Rate	The rate (in megabytes/seconds) at which disk space was allocated on the database during the last sample.
Total Free Space Percent	The percent of the total free disk space within the database.

Total Instance Waits

The Total Instance Waits collection collects the total amount of time (in seconds) that the instance spent on wait events since the last sample.

Collection Type

Collection Sampling Settings


Frequency Mode	Collection Interval (Seconds)
Realtime Collection	60
Online	300
Offline	900

Metric Descriptions


Metric	Description
Total Waits	The total amount of time (in seconds) that the instance spent on wait events since the last sample.

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