How Does eG Enterprise Monitor Oracle Exadata Storage Server?

eG Enterprise monitors Oracle Exadata Storage Server in an agentless manner. All that is required for this is an eG agent needs to be deployed on a remote Windows host in the environment. In a typical Oracle Exadata Database Machine, there may be multiple Storage Cells that are connected to different Oracle databases. eG Enterprise monitors each Storage Cell as an Oracle Database Storage Server monitoring model.

Pre-requisites for monitoring the Oracle Exadata Storage Server

In order to monitor an Oracle Exadata Storage Server, the following pre-requisites should be fulfilled:

  • The Oracle Exadata Storage Server should be managed in the eG admin interface using the IP address of the Exadata Storage Cell. In other words, against the Host IP/Name of the component, the IP address of the Exadata Storage Cell should be specified.

  • The eG agent has to be configured with the credentials of a cellmonitor user that is available by default on the target storage system.