Oracle agent
Prerequisites
- For prerequisite checks for agent installation, see Prerequisite checks for agent installation.
- URL/IP of the SixthSense collector (your tenant URL, which will be provided by the onboarding team.)
- Access token from the SixthSense portal. For accessing the token, see Accessing your Access Token under Getting started with the Observability Portal.
- Oracle agent image ss-oracle-agent
- Database details (host name, port, database name, database user credentials, oracle service-name)
- Use query to get service name: show parameter service_name;
- Package token to download agent which will be provided by Customer Support.
- For information about supported agent versions and framework, see Supported agents.
Downloading the agent version 4.4.5 (latest)
For Windows and Linux based servers, use the following link.
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Agent depends on the Operating System and architecture.
Database User Permissions
To capture database metrics from the oracle server, you must first create a Oracle user with select permissions.
Perform the following steps to create user and grant permissions.
From the oracle SQLPlus shell, create a user with required permissions.
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Replace your_host_name and your_strong_password with your values.
Configuring the Oracle Agent
Create a config.yaml file in the same directory.
Running the Agent
For Linux:
In case of network restrictions, you can use proxy to connect to the SixthSense backend.
For Windows:
- Register DBM agent as a Service in Windows. Type in the following command in cmd:
Example:
Confirm whether the service is registered by opening Services and search for the Service Name with which you've registered.
Run the service by opening the Services again and look for Service name > Start or sc start <service_name>.
Example: sc start MeterAgent_oracle