Monitoring Oracle Exalogic Systems with Hardware Sentry

  • kb1173
  • Sep. 17, 2015
  • 1 min read

How to monitor Oracle Exalogic systems with Hardware Sentry.

Best Practice Hardware Sentry KM Oracle Oracle Exalogic

Related Topics

About Oracle Exalogic Systems

Oracle’s Exalogic systems contain Compute Nodes, ZFS Storage Systems, InfiniBand Switches and a Cisco Management Switch.

The compute nodes usually act as a cluster of Linux servers with Oracle’s virtualization technology installed with the VMs stored on the ZFS Storage Appliances.

Requirements

The following patches are required for Hardware KM 1.9.00:

The PATROL agent used to monitor the Exalogic system should be installed on a Virtual Machine to remotely monitor all components.

Monitoring Examples

Component:
Compute Server

Hardware Type:
Management Card/Chip

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
Sun/Oracle ILOM (SNMP)

Notes:
SNMP v1 needs to be enabled on the ILOM card.

Network status is only monitored from switch end.		 inline

Component:
ZFS Storage

Hardware Type:
Storage

Protocol:
SSH

Connectors:
Sun/Oracle - ZFS Storage Appliance

 inline

Component:
Oracle Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch

Hardware Type:
Network

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent
Sun/Oracle ILOM (SNMP)
Sun/Oracle InfiniBand DCS Switch (Ports)

 

inline

Component:
Cisco Management Switch

Hardware Type:
Network

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent
Cisco Ethernet Switch

 

 

 inline
Best Practice Hardware Sentry KM Oracle Oracle Exalogic