Chat now with support
Chat with Support

Foglight for Oracle (Cartridge) 7.3.0 - Release Notes

UNIX user permissions and installation settings

•
On AIX, the user must be a member of the administrator group to be able to run the sar command.
•
On Linux, the sysstat package must be installed to enable the user to get detailed disk I/O information.
•
On Linux the /proc filesystem must be present.
•
For connection using SSH, the sshd daemon must be installed and running.
•
For connection using telnet, a telnet daemon must be installed and running.
•
The UNIX user should have no special processing on log-on. In particular there must be no input required from the user, and nor should any special login banners be displayed.

Required privileges

For information on the required privileges, refer to the Foglight for Databases Deployment Guide.

Direct NFS client

This version of Foglight for Oracle supports usage of direct NFS client.

Monitoring an Instance that is Part of a Data Guard Environment

To monitor a data guard environment with a physical standby (Redo Apply):
1
Make sure that the Standby Database is in receiving mode.
2
Use SQLPLUS to connect to the Primary Database as SYS user.
3
Create the standby Foglight schema owner.
4
From the Primary Database, run the grant privileges script on the standby user created in Step 3 to stay in that mode after the check.
5
Open a web browser and run the Oracle Monitoring Installer wizard.
6
Select Add a New Instance.
7
Specify the Standby Database credentials and connection details (the user that was created in Step 3).
8
Click Verify Connectivity.
9
If the Standby Database is mounted, click on validate standby button.
10
After the verify process is complete, the next step is to monitor the physical Standby Database.
To monitor a data guard environment with logical standby (SQL Apply):
1
Use SQLPLUS to connect to the logical standby as SYS user.
2
Create the standby Foglight schema owner.
3
Open a web browser and run the Oracle Monitoring Installer wizard.
4
Continue the discovery process as usual, using the logical standby user credentials and connection details.
5
Click Verify Connectivity.
6
Once the connectivity verification is completed, the next step is to monitor the logical standby database.
Related Documents

The document was helpful.

Select Rating

I easily found the information I needed.

Select Rating