Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud

Control 12c
(Setting up Metrics and Monitoring)
Top 10 Features for DBAs

Prepared by:
Leighton L. Nelson

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Agenda
Setting up Metrics and Monitoring
What, Why, How
Five step process

Top 10 Database Features

Database Lifecycle Management

Real-Time Database Operations
EMCLI
ASH Analytics
Backup & Recovery
Metric Extensions
Compare Period and Real-Time ADDM
Corrective Actions

DBaaS
AWR Data Warehouse

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

WHY DO WE MONITOR?

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

WHAT SHOULD WE MONITOR?

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Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

HOW DO WE MONITOR?

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

INSTALL OEM 12C

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

1. Add Targets
Deploy EM Agent to Hosts
Promote Targets
2. Add Metrics and Metric Extensions
Set Thresholds
Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons
3. AdministraLon Groups
Automate sePng of metrics and incident rule sets
4. Create Incident Rules/Rule sets
Availability Rules
Metric Rules
5. Job Library
Automate everything

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

1. Add Targets
Deploy EM Agent to Hosts
Promote Targets
2. Add Metrics and Metric Extensions
Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons
3. AdministraLon Groups
Automate sePng of metrics and incident rule sets
4. Create Incident Rules/Rule sets
Availability Rules
Metric Rules
5. Job Library
Automate everything

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

1. Add Targets
Deploy EM Agent to Hosts
Promote Targets
2. Add Metrics and Metric Extensions
Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons
3. AdministraLon Groups
Automate sePng of metrics and incident rule sets
4. Create Incident Rules/Rule sets
Availability Rules
Metric Rules
5. Job Library
Automate everything

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Metric Thresholds

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

1. Add Targets
Deploy EM Agent to Hosts
Promote Targets
2. Add Metrics and Metric Extensions
Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons
3. AdministraLon Groups
Automate sePng of metrics and incident rule sets
4. Create Incident Rules/Rule sets
Availability Rules
Metric Rules
5. Job Library
Automate everything

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

AdministraLon Groups

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

1. Add Targets
Deploy EM Agent to Hosts
Promote Targets
2. Add Metrics and Metric Extensions
Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons
3. AdministraLon Groups
Automate sePng of metrics and incident rule sets
4. Create Incident Rules/Rule sets
Availability Rules
Metric Rules
5. Job Library
Automate everything

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Create Incident Rules/Rule sets

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

1. Add Targets
Deploy EM Agent to Hosts
Promote Targets
2. Add Metrics and Metric Extensions
Monitoring Templates and Template CollecLons
3. AdministraLon Groups
Automate sePng of metrics and incident rule sets
4. Create Incident Rules/Rule sets
Availability Rules
Metric Rules
5. Job Library
Automate everything

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Create central administrator to own Incident Rule

Sets, Templates and Jobs
OEM_ADMIN
Test Incident Rule Sets periodically
Create Like or Use Private Rule Sets
Use the Metric threshold test
Use CorrecLve AcLons
Incident Manager
Extend monitoring
Storage Plug-ins
EM Extensibility Exchange
Automate rouLne tasks using EMCLI

Setting up Metrics and Monitoring

Top 10 Features for DBAs

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

Database Patching & Updates
Patch Types
PSU
CPU
One-offs
Opatch

Manual patching
Time

consuming

Complex
Risky
Requires

downtime

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

Database Upgrades
Upgrades can be scary
Pre-requisites
Backups
Down-time
Cross-fingers

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

Database Patching & Updates
Use Patch Plans
Out of Place Patching support
Integrates with MOS

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

1/ Database Lifecycle Management

Database Patching & Updates
5 Step Process to patch many DBs
Patch

Description

Select

the patches to apply and the targets

Deployment
Patch

options

Validation & Analysis

Review

and Deploy

More automation with EMCLI

emcli

submit_patch_plan

2/ Real-Time Database Operations

Monitoring
Simple Statements
SQL Monitoring
PL/SQL Monitoring

Composite Database Operations

Enabled by default when
STATISTICS_LEVEL=TYPICAL/ALL

Define DB Operation
DBMS_SQL_MONITOR.BEGIN_OPERATION
DBMS_SQL_MONITOR.END_OPERATION

2/ Real-Time Database Operations

Monitoring
SQL Monitoring

3/ EM Command Line Interface

Turbo charges EM!

Enables Script Automation
Install from OEM Console
Standard or Advanced with Scripting Option

3/ EM Command Line Interface

3/ EM Command Line Interface

emcli help
emcli verb help

4/ ASH Analytics
Multi-dimensional view of ASH data
DB-Time Analysis
Top Activity +
Resize sample window
More dimensions
Load map tree

4/ ASH Analytics

5/ Backup & Recovery

When I ask the sysadmins, The backups are making it to tape,
right?

-DBA Reactions

5/ Backup & Recovery

RMAN Backup
Target-based RMAN backup
Wizard-driven

interface

Oracle-Suggested

or Customized Backup

Job System based RMAN backup

Use

existing RMAN scripts

Group Backups using deployment procedure

Backup

multiple databases, homes and filesystems in a single

operation

5/ Backup & Recovery

6/ Corrective Actions

Resolve Incidents, Automagically!

Automate routine administrative tasks
Triggered in response to metric alerts
Runs on the target on which alerts are triggered
Agent-side response actions can execute single commands
or scripts on host

7/ Automatic Database Diagnostics Monitor

ADDM
Compare Period ADDM
Why is the database slower today than yesterday?
Compares database activity over two periods of time

7/ Automatic Database Diagnostics Monitor

ADDM
Real-Time ADDM

Analyzes hung or very slow DB

Finds sources of contention
Performs DB Time Analysis
Uses 2 connection modes
Normal

JDBC connection

Latch-less

connection

Enhanced Real-Time ADDM (DB 12c)

7/ Automatic Database Diagnostics Monitor

ADDM
Real-time ADDM Active
Reports

8/ Database-as-a-Service

Schema-as-a-Service
DBCA Template
RMAN Backup
Snap Clone
Storage Agnostic (ZFS)
Vendor Specific (NetApp, Oracle ZFSSA, EMC)

Pluggable Databases (12c)

8/ Database-as-a-Service
Database-as-a-Service

8/ Database-as-a-Service
Database-as-a-Service

9/ Metric Extensions

Not satisfied with out-of-the-box metrics?

BYOM

Build Your Own Metrics

9/ Metric Extensions

9/ Metric Extensions

Many out-of-the box metrics available

If there isnt you can create your own
Create using adapters
SQL
PL/SQL
Shell Scripts
Useful for re-using exisLng scripts

9/ Metric Extensions
Example
Flash Recovery Area (FRA) being used
Archived Used (%) doesnt trigger
Recovery Area (%) Used not modiable
Warning 85%
CriLcal 97%
Create new FRA Used (%) Metric
See New EM12c Extensibility Exchange for
examples

10/ AWR Warehouse (AWRW)

Used for consolidation of AWR from multiple databases

Provides long term historical information for AWR
Data is moved from source to targets system via ETL jobs
Retention period can be modified
See MOS note 1907335.1 for patches and requirements

10/ AWR Warehouse (AWRW)

10/ AWR Warehouse (AWRW)

Summary

EM 12c Rocks!!!

Questions?

Thank You

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