Host and Database Performance Monitoring

Abstract

Performance monitoring for databases, compute nodes, and storage cells in an Exadata Database Machine can be performed using a number of available operating system tools, Oracle scripts, and Oracle Enterprise Manager. Exadata’s compute nodes run either Oracle Linux or Solaris 11 Express, and Exadata Storage Servers run Oracle Linux. As such, both traditional Linux and Solaris performance-monitoring tools are available to the Exadata DMA to monitor server performance. Additionally, Exadata runs the Oracle 11gR2 database and is capable of being integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager, so an Exadata DMA’s traditional performance monitoring tools will likely be the same as the tools, software, and utilities used in a non-Exadata environment.