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Adding a PostgreSQL Instance
Using Control Center » Instance management » Adding a PostgreSQL Instance
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…
Adding a MySQL Instance
Using Control Center » Instance management » Adding a MySQL Instance
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…
Adding a SQLServer Instance
Using Control Center » Instance management » Adding a SQLServer Instance
How to get here To open the “Add Instance Wizard”, click on the “Plus (+)” sign on the bottom left of the dbWatch Client. Select Instance Type and Input Connection Details Specify the host and port number. dbWatch will attempt to…
Adding an Oracle Instance
Using Control Center » Instance management » 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…
Segment size status for old style tablespaces
Using Control Center » Monitoring » Control Center Jobs » Jobs grouped by platform » Jobs for Oracle » Segment size status for old style tablespaces
Name: Segment size status for old style tablespaces Platform: Oracle Category: Capacity Description: Checks segment storage definitions in tablespaces where extent management is not set to local. Long…
Free extents
Using Control Center » Monitoring » Control Center Jobs » Jobs grouped by platform » Jobs for Oracle » Free extents
Name: Free extents Platform: Oracle Category: Capacity Description: Checks for free extents in all tablespaces. A warning or an alarm is returned if segments storage value is higher than the largest free extent…
Vacuum tables
Using Control Center » Monitoring » Control Center Jobs » Jobs grouped by platform » Jobs for PostgreSQL » Vacuum tables
Name: Vaccum tables Platform: Postgres Category: Maintenance Description: This job runs VACUUM statement on every database and reclaims storage occupied by dead tuples. It’s necessary to do VACUUM periodically,…
Architecture
Product Overview » Architecture
Architecture components The dbWatch installation consists of three components: dbWatch Monitor/Client serves as the front-end GUI dbWatch Server is the core business logic and central hub of the system dbWatch Framework contains stored objects in the registered…
User integration with Active Directory
Using Control Center » Domain Configuration » Managing users » User integration with Active Directory
The user integration with Active Directory offloads the password verification and storage from the dbWatch Control Center domain controller to Active Directory. Port openings To allow the correct communications between the dbWatch Server and the Active Directory…
Installing on Windows
Getting Started » Installing on Windows
dbWatch Server Prerequisites Windows Server (VMWare virtual server or AWS EC2 supported) Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, and 2022 Windows 10 or Windows 11 8 GB RAM 4 CPU cores 10 GB hard drive space dbWatch Engine Prerequisites 500 Mb free space in…
Capacity
Using Control Center » Monitoring » Control Center Jobs » Jobs grouped by category » Capacity
Jobs in the Capacity category Control Center Jobs Description Oracle ASM disk statistics Checks ASM disks for status and statistics. ASM diskgroup space Checks ASM diskgroups space statistics. Monitor SYS.AUD$…
Release notes
About dbWatch Control Center » Release notes
dbWatch Control Center (2024-03-11) Download Important note Linux release is available as an apt repository, see Linux install guide All clients and servers need to be upgraded in a multi-server setup before the connection will resume due to network…
Jobs for Oracle
Using Control Center » Monitoring » Control Center Jobs » Jobs grouped by platform » Jobs for Oracle
Control Center Jobs Description Availability Alert log check This check reads and looks for errors in the database alert log. Alert log check This check reads and looks for errors in the database alert log. Alert…