Monitor options for Oracle agent
The Oracle agent provides two levels of monitoring: basic and detail. By default, the agent does a basic monitoring.
Basic monitoring options
The basic monitoring mode has two options: Process check and Health check. Basic monitoring options describes the basic monitoring options.
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Option
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Description
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0
(Default)
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Process check
The agent scans the process table for the ora_dbw, ora_smon, ora_pmon, and ora_lgwr processes to verify that Oracle is running.
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1
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Health check (supported on Oracle 10g and later)
The agent uses the Health Check APIs from Oracle to monitor the SGA and retrieve the information about the instance.
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Detail monitoring
In the detail monitoring mode, the agent performs a transaction on a test table in the database to ensure that Oracle is functioning properly.
