Importing event-like data into Oracle Enterprise Manager

Andrea Vasco

Hi everyone,

I am pretty new to this community, and today I am reaching out to look for guidance from experts. I have tried to research some information on my own but struggled in finding a complete answer.ent-

I am trying to understand the best way to push event-like data into Oracle Enterprise Manager and have them accessible in Time Charts / Performance Analyses. The primary use case for this is triage better and diagnose sudden changes to performance metrics as a consequence of a software release happened on the higher side of the stack. We already have an understanding of how we could collect the event of a new software version being deployed; I am struggling to put together the better approach to push this information to OEM in an automated fashion.

I hope this makes sense, and I apologize if this topic had been already debated- as I said, I tried to do some research on my own with very little luck.

Thanks in advance to those who will get back to me.

Have a nice day,

Andrea

aidev.uk

Hi Andrea

As a start, you should have a look at https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=53891:206:::NO:::

You'll need the EM EDK to develop the plugin and, if possible, a suitable test EM environment to test this against. If you're new to EM this could be a steep learning curve however.

Metric extensions at a host level may be an easier route to success, assuming the EM agent can get the data you need.

Once the metric info is being sent to EM, you could leverage SNMP alerting (or simple email based alerting). For SNMP trap notifications see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMADM/GUID-18F98B02-3B20-4D64-B5E2-6F13FD34A291.htm#EMADM12352

thanks

Scott

aidev.uk

Hi,

You could look to develop a custom plugin to pull the data into EM via metrics/configuration collection. The EDK allows you to render the core metrics on custom pages within EM. You could also integrate alerting into the core EM framework and leverage email/SNMP based alerts for example.

Alternatively you could investigate host-level metric extensions to get the data in, assuming you can pull the data from an EM agent host.

Scott

Andrea Vasco

Thank you Scott, I really appreciate your help. Could you please point me to the documentation for the three options you outlined, please?

- develop a custom plugin

- integrate external alerts using SNMP

- extend the metric collection of the EM agent

As I said, I am pretty new - just want to make sure I look in the right places

Thanks,

Andrea

aidev.uk

Hi Andrea

As a start, you should have a look at https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=53891:206:::NO:::

You'll need the EM EDK to develop the plugin and, if possible, a suitable test EM environment to test this against. If you're new to EM this could be a steep learning curve however.

Metric extensions at a host level may be an easier route to success, assuming the EM agent can get the data you need.

Once the metric info is being sent to EM, you could leverage SNMP alerting (or simple email based alerting). For SNMP trap notifications see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMADM/GUID-18F98B02-3B20-4D64-B5E2-6F13FD34A291.htm#EMADM12352

thanks

Scott

Andrea Vasco

Thank you Scott, this is exactly what I needed!

Cheers,

Andrea