Tam Nguyen

Upcoming Live Webinar Series – Explore the latest innovations in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Exciting news, the long awaited Oracle Enterprise and Cloud Manageability Virtual Classroom Series has been announced and will run this October and November.

The series will include:

7 sessions running weekly from October 13 2020
12+ Oracle experts
Live presentations
Demos
Q&A

During the virtual classes, you will get to explore the latest and greatest innovations Enterprise Manager has to offer.

This is a great opportunity for you to learn and benefit from using Enterprise Manager to manage on-premise and cloud deployments for:

Databases
Middleware
Oracle apps (eg. EBS)
Engineered Systems (eg. Exadata, ZDLRA, PCA)

To register please visit:
Oracle Enterprise and Cloud Manageability Virtual Classroom Series

Multitenant Common Users Accessing Application Tables in PDBs

I recently had a requirement where the Common User in a Multitenant DB environment wanted to access application tables across Pluggable Databases (PDBs) but at the same time access dictionary views across all PDBs without the need to manually switch between containers.

This was because I had to setup a monitoring user account to monitor all PDBs performance as well as application workload.

In this example I will show you how the Common User (created at CDB level) can be configured to access the application tables (create at PDB level)

Continue reading “Multitenant Common Users Accessing Application Tables in PDBs”

Setup Autonomous DB Monitoring in OMC

In this post I will show you how you can setup Autonomous DB monitoring in Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) in under 5 minutes.

NOTE: Make sure you have the appropriate policies setup before you start.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/management-cloud/mcdbm/access-policies-assign-autonomous-database-related-privileges.html

STEP 1
You will need to obtain your OCI User Information associated with your Autonomous Database (ADB) instances from the OCI Console.

Click on the user icon in top right hand corner of OCI console.
Select User Settings
On the User Details page, make a copy of the User OCID
In addition to this, make a copy of the API Key Fingerprint.

STEP 2
You will need to obtain your OCI Tenant Information associated with your Autonomous Database instances from the OCI Console.

Navigate to Administration > Tenancy Details
On the Tenancy Information page, make a Copy of the Tenancy OCID.

HINT: If OCID is hidden, you can click on Show to display entire value if you wish.

STEP 3
In another browser session, launch the OMC Console.

HINT: If the side menu does not appear, click on menu icon

STEP 4
From the side menu, navigate to:

Select Administration
Select Discovery
Select Cloud Discovery Profile

STEP 5
On the Cloud Discovery Profiles Page:
Click on + Add Profile

The Add Discovery Profile Page will appear.

Specify a Profile Name (eg. ADWPROFILE1)
Choose Cloud Service Provider Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Click + Add
Select Region (eg. Frankfurt)
Select Services (eg. Autonomous Data Warehouse)
Enter Credential Name (eg. ADWCRED)
Enter User OCID (eg. ocid1.user.oc1.xxxxx)
Enter Tenancy OCID (eg. ocid1.tenancy.oc1.xxxxx)
Enter the associated Private key with user API Key
Enter the Fingerprint (eg. nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn)
Click on Start Discovery

STEP 6
On the Cloud Discovery Profiles Page, wait for discovery to complete.

Click on the Job Status Count
Verify that the Service was completed successfully

This completes the setup. Now you are ready to start monitoring and managing your Autonomous Database in OMC. Click here here for more.

Why Would you Monitor an Autonomous Database?

You probably heard that Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) leverages machine learning to automate with traditional infrastructure related database administration tasks such as security, backups and patching.

No matter how well designed your database infrastructure is, performance and issues relating application or external components which make up the application ecosystem can still have an impact on end user response time or availability. Continue reading “Why Would you Monitor an Autonomous Database?”