OneSight Administrator Guide

Configuring Database Monitors
Configuring Database Monitors
You can set up a monitor that performs a database query for an
individual machine. The monitor can then provide information on
the success or failure of that query, measured either by result time
or by content matching.
Note: OneSight also includes profile monitors for Oracle and SQL
Server databases. These profile-based monitors use a set of
preselected database metrics and allow you to apply the same
settings to multiple machines.
At specified time intervals, Empirix OneSight sends a database
query and records the success or failure of the query based on result
time or by matching a content string. For example, the monitor can
perform an SQL Query on a database server using a SELECT
statement.
When you click Database in the Monitor Types box in the Add
Monitor dialog box, settings to configure a Database monitor
appear on these dialog box tabs:
JDBC tab – Contains configuration information for the driver used
to connect to the monitored database.
Query tab – Contains the query and sampling options for a Database
monitor.
Alerts tab – Shows what action plan will be used when an alert
occurs. Options on this tab allow you to set up or modify an action
plan that responds to alerts generated by the current Database
monitor. You can also configure how an alert will affect the
monitor group’s health. It can result in a Warning state, a Critical
state, or can have no impact on health.
Locations Tab – Specifies the Data Collector Location from which
the Database monitor will query the database.
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