The agent provides the following levels of application monitoring:

• Primary or Basic monitoring

  This mode has Process check and Health check monitoring options. With the default Process check option, the agent verifies that the Oracle and listener processes are present in the process table. Process check cannot detect whether processes are in a hung or stopped states.

  The Oracle agent provides functionality to detect whether the Oracle resource was intentionally taken offline. The agent detects graceful shutdown for Oracle 10g and later. When an administrator brings down Oracle gracefully, the agent does not trigger a resource fault even though Oracle is down. The value of the type-level attribute IntentionalOffline attribute and the value of the MonitorOption attribute must be set to 1 to enable Oracle agent's intentional offline functionality.

• Secondary or Detail monitoring

  In this mode, the agent runs a perl script that executes commands against the database and listener to verify their status.