Adding an Oracle Instance

Oracle Prerequisites

!1. Oracle databases need to have a listener process running and also allow for an external login with sysdba user or user with enough privileges.
2. You need a privileged user, such as sys as sysdba, another user with sysdba privileges or another user with enough privileges depending on what you want to install.
3. This privileged user must be able to grant privileges to a monitoring user, by default dbwatch.
4. The monitoring user must be a different user from the privileged user.
5. There is no need to create the monitoring user before you start this install, its created by the privileged user as part of the process.

How to get here

To open the “Add Instance Wizard”, click on the “Plus (+)” sign on the bottom left of the dbWatch Client.

This will bring up the “Add Instance” wizard, which will guide you through the following steps.

Select Instance Type and Input Connection Details

The Host info is the hostname or ip address of the database instance.
The Port is the port number where the listener process is listening on.

In the SID / Service name field allows you to specify the SID or Service name for the Oracle instance you are about to add.

dbWatch will attempt to select the correct instance type based on the entered port number. If the instance type is wrong, select the correct one in the drop down.
The authentication types available will depend on the selected instance type.

Choose an authentication type whether a password or Kerberos Authentication.
You need to specify a user with sysdba privileges that will be used during the installation.

Password Authentication	Connects using the provided username and password.
Kerberos Authentication	Connects using kerberos.

By default dbWatch will select the most apropiate JDBC driver for the database instance. It is possible to select a specific JDBC driver and set driver properties by clicking on “Advanced Driver Setup”. Read more.

Click “Next”.

Select Instance Type and Connection Details

Specify the group and license for the instance. Default groups are Development, Test and Production, but you can easily create and customize your own groups based on your requirements.
The licensing options available will depend on your license. The selected option will determine what monitoring jobs are available.

You can choose to register this instance with or without a local database schema. This choice will influence the available monitoring jobs. Some jobs require objects in the database (procedures, tables etc.), others do not. We recommend installing a database schema, as this will give the most monitoring options.

You can stick with the jobs that are selected by default or customize the selection as needed.

Click “Next”.

Define Module authentications

Within this window you have an option to choose which credential to use for each module within dbWatch.
You can use the existing user or select a new user whether password or OS authentication.