Oracle VM Manager Servers

• OVM - Overview
• Creating a new OVM Monitor Group
• User Permissions
• Monitored Parameters

OVM - Overview

Oracle VM (OVM) is a platform that provides a fully equipped environment with all the latest benefits of virtualization technology. Oracle VM enables us to deploy operating systems and application software within a supported virtualization environment. Oracle VM insulates users and administrators from the underlying virtualization technology and allows daily operations to be conducted using goal-oriented GUI interfaces.

Applications manager can discover your entire Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure and its components through Oracle VM Manager. The Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure group allows you to discover virtual resources and categorize them into server pools, Oracle VM Server, Storage, Repository, etc.

Creating a new Oracle VM Monitor Group

Supported Versions: Oracle VM Version 3.4.6 and above.

Prerequisites for monitoring Oracle VM Manager metrics: Click here

Using the REST API to add a new Oracle VM Manager monitor group: Click here

1. Go to New Monitor → Add New Monitor → Virtualization category → Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure monitor type.
2. Specify the Display Name of the Oracle VM Manager.
3. Enter the Host Name or the IP Address of the host where the Oracle VM Manager is running.
4. Enter the Port where the server is running.
5. Enter the credential details like user name and password for authentication, or select the required credentials from the Credential Manager list after enabling the Select from Credential list option.
6. Select the VM Discovery option. The available options are Do not discover, Discover VM but do not monitor metrics, and Discover and Monitor VM metrics.
7. Specify the Polling Interval in minutes.
8. Enter the Timeout value in seconds.
9. If you are adding a new monitor from an Admin Server, select a Managed Server.
10. Click on the Fetch OracleVM Servers button. This discovers the Oracle VM servers from the network and starts monitoring it.

User Permissions

We recommend to use the admin privilege account to monitor the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure.

Monitored Parameters

Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure groups will be listed among monitor groups and can be accessed from the 'Monitor Group' view under the Monitors tab. Within the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure group,

• Summary tab provides an overall view of the components of the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure and their health status. It shows you the number of Server Pools, Storage, Repository, Oracle VM Servers, VMs present in the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure.
• Business View tab allows you to configure business views that help you visualize the inter dependencies between your Oracle VM virtual infrastructure as well as view their health status.
• Dashboards tab lets you create your own custom pages by adding widgets into your dashboards. By using the Custom Dashboards feature, you can create dashboards of your choice - like Status View of all the Databases, Status view of all Web Applications deployed in the Tomcat Server, etc. If you create a dashboard as a template, the same dashboard can be reused across various Monitor Groups.

Below are the list of parameters that are monitored in the Summary tab:

• Server Pool
• Storage
• Repository

Server Pool

Server pools logically organize one or more Oracle VM Servers into groups where virtual machines can run. Each server pool can have up to 32 physical servers. Each Oracle VM Server can be a member of only one server pool. The server pool is the operational unit of Oracle VM.

This section provides details about server pools and their corresponding servers associated with the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure.

Storage

A File Server is used to serve File System-based storage made available to the environment. A File Server can serve File Systems of the following types:

• Network - A File System where directories and files are shared with others over a network.
• Cluster - A File System which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers.
• Local - A File System where the devices are locally attached and they are not shared with other servers.

This section provides details about storage and file systems associated with the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure.

Repository

A repository is a file system that is logically structured in a particular way so that different resources can be located easily and made available for creating, cloning or running virtual machines.

This section provides details about repositories associated with the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure.