dbWatch AS
Control Center — 1.0
1.0
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dbWatch AS
Control Center — 1.0
Control Center — 1.0
About dbWatch Control Center
Release notes
Find your version
Platforms supported
Getting Started
Installing on Windows
Installing on Linux
Console installation on Ubuntu
Initial Domain Setup
Multi-server setup
Product Overview
Architecture
Example architecture designs
Cloud router
Cloud router security
File Structure
Network and communications
Database operations philosophy
Monitor dashboards and overview screens
Installing and using premium packages
SQL Performance package
Installation of SQL Performance package
Using SQL Performance package on SQL Server
Integration with SSMS
Using SQL Performance package on Oracle
Using SQL Performance package on PostgreSQL
Using SQL Performance package on MySQL
Repository management and monitoring
Troubleshooting issues in SQL Performance package
Security and Compliance package
Installation of the Security and Compliance package
Security and Compliance package on SQL Server
Automated maintenance package
Using Control Center
The modules of Control Center
Disabling and Enabling Views
Instance management
Instance Configuration
JDBC Properties
Monitoring Engine
Adding a SQLServer Instance
Using OS Authentication
Adding SQLServer instances with kerberos
Adding an Oracle Instance
Adding a PostgreSQL Instance
Adding a MySQL Instance
Bulk installing instances
Groups Configuration
Changing Instance Group
Service groups
Domain Configuration
Adding or changing license
Managing nodes
Managing roles
Managing users
Creating a user
User integration with Active Directory
2 factor authentication
Managing security groups
Privileges and actions map
Upgrade dbWatch
Monitoring
Tree navigation
Instance details
Pause
Job details
Job menus
Job concepts
Schedule
Acknowledgement system
Versioning
Status
Report
Parameters
Notes
Job types
Engine jobs
No-engine jobs
Control Center Jobs
Jobs grouped by platform
Jobs for Oracle
Alert log check
Alert log check (10g)
Alert log check (9i)
Alert log check (8i)
Alert log check (java)
Alert log check (java for 10g)
Archive status check
Backup log check (old style 10g)
Backup log check (old style 9i)
Backup log check (old style 8i)
Dataguard Archive Status
Data Guard Archive Status Check (10g & 9i)
Database link check
Instance alert log
Database uptime
DBA jobs check
DBMS uptime
Export log Check (‘old style’ backups)
File status check
Index status check
Invalid objects check
Job scheduling check
Listener log check
Listener log check (10g)
Listener log check (11g)
Listener log check (9i)
Listener log check (8i)
Listener log check (java)
Listener log check (java 10g)
Listener status check
Max datafiles check
Database mount state
Datafile status
Max datafiles
RMAN backup status (noschema)
Password expire
PDB status
RMAN backup status (10.1)
RMAN backup status (10.2)
RMAN backup status (11)
RMAN backup status (8)
RMAN backup status (9)
RMAN archivelog backup status
RMAN backup status
RMAN incremental backup status
Test alert db
Test alert
TNSping check
ASM disk statistics
ASM diskgroup space
Aud$ table size check
Autoextensible data files
Disk space check
Flash Recovery Area Usage
Flash Recovery Area Usage (10g)
Free extents
Max processes
ASM diskgroup space (noschema)
Extent fragmentation
Flash recovery space usage (noschema)
Max processes (noschema)
SYS.AUD size
Tablespace free space (noschema)
Segment size collector (all segments -- aggregate)
Segment size collector (all segments -- aggregate 9i)
Segment size collector (large segments -- detail)
Segment size status for old style tablespaces
Temporary tablespace free space check
Tablespace free space check
Blocking detector for RAC
Memory session load for RAC
MV Refresh Group(s)
Dataguard apply time
Dataguard archive sequence apply lag
Dataguard standby archivelog gap
Dataguard standby archivelog gap
Dataguard startup time
Dataguard transport time
RAC instances status
Session load RAC
Snapshot Log(s) rows count
Snapshot Log(s) size
Data Guard role switch
Restore uptodate status
Framework
Analyze tables
Delete SYS.AUD$ data
Rebuild indexes
Statistics migation
Blocking detector
Buffer cache statistics
CPU load
Database network statistics (SQL*NET)
Test DML performance
File IO statistics
Instance memory statistics
Latch statistics
Long running queries
Open cursors
Disk read statistics
Redo statistics
Redo statistics (8i)
Session load
Session load (8i and 9i)
SQL waits
Table statistics check
Top user memory usage
Undo statistics
User memory statistics
Wait statistics
SQL statistics
SQL statistics (RDS)
RMAN recovery area backup status
Tablespace in BEGIN BACKUP mode
Applied archive log gap status
SQL statistics (CDB)
SQL statistics (PDB)
Jobs for MS SQL Server
Agent Jobs Check
Agent Jobs Check (MS2000)
SQL Server Agent status
Database backup (MS2000)
Database backup (system dbs)
Database backup
Database backup (SIMPLE)
Database backup (system databases)
Database log backup
Collation check
Check database recovery mode
Database status
Database status (MS2000)
Database server uptime
Database Server uptime (MS2000)
Database server uptime (MS2005)
Instance error log
Instance error log (AWS)
Instance status
Database backup (noschema)
Database log backup (noschema)
Database status (noschema)
Missing database backup (noschema)
Missing database log backup (noschema)
Program status
Report Server status
Restricted Enterprise edition features
Restricted Enterprise edition features (MS2000)
Restricted Enterprise edition features (MS2005)
Auto growth event collector
Data file size check
Data file size check (MS2000)
Database growth rate (aggregated)
Database growth rate (aggregated) (MS2000)
Database growth rate (detailed)
Database growth rate (detailed) (MS2000)
Database disk capacity
Database disk space usage
Databases NOT IN USE collector
Disk space check
Instance error log file size check
Filegroups growth rate
Filegroups growth rate (MS2000)
Data file size check (noschema)
Database disk capacity (noschema)
Disk space check (noschema)
Transaction log space usage (noschema)
Object size collector (all databases)
Temporary database space usage
Transaction log size check
Transaction log size check (MS2000)
Transaction log space usage
Transaction log space usage (MS2000 / MS2005 / MS2008)
Truncate transaction log
Version store space usage (tempdb)
Database mirroring
Failover cluster host switch
Health state
Log shipping monitor (primary)
Log shipping monitor (secondary)
Member state
AlwaysOn database backup alert
AlwaysOn transaction log backup alert
Replica states
Replication status
MS SQL Server patch status
Database statistics
dbWatch engine alert
dbWatch Server activity alert
Autogrow settings
Framework
Framework (MS2000)
Backup All databases
Backup All transaction logs
Check database and server principal mapping
Cleanup MSDB history tables
Cycle error log
DBCC CHECKDB
DBCC UPDATEUSAGE
External fragmentation (all databases)
Internal fragmentation check
SQL Server performance counters
Rebuild indexes
Rebuild indexes in table
Reorganize indexes
Reorganize indexes in table
Shrink transaction logs
Suspect pages
Update index statistics
Update statistics
Statistics migation
Blocking detector
Blocking statistics
Cached query statistics
Data cache memory usage
Data cache memory usage (MS2005 / MS2008)
Data hit ratio
Database session load
Test DML-DDL performance
File IO statistics
High activity monitor
High activity monitor (MS2005)
Index usage statistics (all databases)
Instance memory check
Instance memory usage
Instance memory usage (MS2005 / MS2008)
Lazy writer and checkpoint statistics
Memory objects statistics
Blocking detector (noschema)
Instance memory check (noschema)
Server memory statistics
Sessions per database
Session load
Transactions log flushed bytes load
Transactions log flushed bytes load (MS2000)
Transactions load
Wait statistics
SQL statistics
Query store status
Jobs for PostgreSQL
Backup check – pg_dump
Backup check – WAL
DBMS uptime
dbWatch engine alert
Log size statistics
Schema growth collector
Vacuum alert
Schema growth and information
Schema growth statistics
Tablespace growth and information
BDR Replication lag
Replication delay alert
Replication slave client alert
Backup job – pg_dump_all (ssh)
Framework
Analyze tables
Vacuum tables
Buffer cache reads per database
Buffer cache statistics
Disk block hitrate
Disk block reads per database
Test DML performance
Index block hitrate
Locks held and statistics
Table and index scan collector
Session load
Table and index scan statistics
Transaction statistics
SQL statistics
SQL statistics
Jobs for MySQL
DBMS uptime
MySQL aborted connects
MySQL max connections
MySQL mysqld process
Database growth rate (aggregated)
Database growth rate (detailed)
Innodb buffer pool check
Innodb cluster status
NDB data memory usage check
NDB data node status
Innodb cluster switch
Replica count
Replica delay
Replica state
Binlog cache check
Key buffer check
Database load
Lock statistics
Memory setup
Network traffic
Query cache hitrate
Session load
Thread cache hitrate
Temporary table check
Jobs for MariaDB
DBMS uptime
DBMS uptime (old)
Binlog cache check
Binlog cache check (old)
Database growth rate (aggregated)
Database growth rate (detailed)
MariaDB Index Redundancy Checker
Innodb buffer pool check
Innodb buffer pool check (old)
Key buffer check
Key buffer check (old)
Database load
Database load (old)
Lock statistics
Lock statistics (old)
Memory setup
Memory setup (old)
NDB data memory usage check
NDB data node status
Network traffic
Network traffic (old)
Aborted connects alert
Maximum connections alert
MySQLd process alert
Query cache hitrate
Query cache hitrate (old)
Replica count
Replica delay
Replica state
Session load
Session load (old)
MariaDB Space Optimizer
Thread cache hitrate
Thread cache hitrate (old)
Temporary table check
Temporary table check (old)
Jobs for Sybase
Blocking detector
Database backup
Database space check
Database space check (12)
Database status
Data cache monitor
Data cache statistics
Database growth rate (detailed)
DBMS uptime
Disk activity monitor
Engine CPU monitor
Memory statistics
Procedure cache check
Procedure cache check (12)
Session load
System monitor collector
Temp cache statistics
Test DML-DDL performance
Transaction log space check
User connections check
User connections check (12)
Jobs grouped by category
Availability
Capacity
Cluster and replication
Compliance
Consolidation
Maintenance
Migration
Performance
Management
Management on SQL Server
dbWatch alerts
Configuration
Parameters
Advanced dynamic parameters
Advanced static parameters
Registry parameters
Uptime statistics
[Database name] (database server)
[Instance name] (instance)
Maintenance periods
SQL performance
Internal repository
Server activity
Blocking sessions
Blocked sessions history
Blocking sessions history
Locks
Active processes
Performance test
Sessions
Sessions history
Sessions performance
Disk and Memory usage
Backups
SQL Server Error logs
Databases
Security
SQL Server Agent
Operating System Manager
Audit
SQL Worksheet
Worksheet
Autodiscover
Defining Autodiscover Ports
Auto-discover with different default port
Reporting
Generate Reports
Scheduled reports
Edit Report Templates
Customization
Importing resources
Monitoring
Editor for engine jobs
Properties
Metadata
Internal objects
External dependencies
Configuration parameters
Installation variables
Pre implementation
Implementation
Main procedure SQL Server
Post implementation
Upgrade
Report
Example engine jobs
Job templates
Customize View using FDL
No-engine jobs
Property System
Metadata properties
Dynamic properties
Javascript property
The property file format
Management
Formatting table results
Result types
Graphical
Stacked area chart
Line chart
Pie chart
Category chart
Category line chart
Item active
Reports
Extensions and 3rd party integrations
Email and SMS
Configuring email extension for Service Now
Web server
Web configuration
Dashboards
Web data export
Web dashboard editor (beta)
Anonymous webaccess
Supported Web Browsers for dbWatch Dashboard
Advanced Topics
FDL – Farm Data Language
Functions
add function
sub function
abs function
until function
groupby function
count function
sum function
avg function
max function
min function
upper function
lower function
trim function
concat function
capitalize function
distinct function
mkstring function
nicedb function
union function
intersect function
difference function
round function
div function
mult function
replace function
orderby function
todate function
empty function
nonempty function
tomillis function
toperiod function
containsall function
containsnone function
containssome function
substring function
hash function
Available properties
Properties on dbWatch Servers
Properties on Instances
Properties on Jobs
Properties on Internal
Application Modules
Unit4 Agresso
The FString format
Product Security
Product Description
Hardware Specifications
Operating System
Network Ports and Services
Sensitive Data Transmitted
Sensitive Data Stored
Certificate infrastructure
Crypto catalog
Network Controls
Encryption
Audit Logging
Remote Connectivity
Disclaimer
Node to Node communication
Auditing
Control Center Commandline
Setting up a CCC node
FDL with CCC
Add instance with CCC
Set metadata with CCC
Install jobs with CCC
Get instance configuration with CCC
Register instance configuration with CCC
Instance action script with CCC
Start/stop webservice with CCC
Exporting configuration from 12 to CC
Internal Control Center firewall
Troubleshooting Guide
Backup of dbWatch
Adding MySQL Instance with Super Privilege Error
Restore configuration backup
Issues and troubleshooting
Definition Mapping
Resetting dbWatch Control Center Admin Account
Fresh Installation of dbWatch Control Center
Remote Support
Additional Resources
Database Farm Management Additional Resources
Licensing terms
Download as PDF
Test alert
Name:
Test alert
Platform:
Oracle
Category:
Availability
Description:
Test alert that alerts every ‘X’ minutes.
Long description:
Test alert that alerts every ‘X’ minutes. Usefull for testing extensions and not intended for use in production environments. Instance centric, so intended for single instance or each instance in a
RAC
cluster.
Version:
3.0
Default schedule:
5,15,25,35,45,55 * * *
Requires engine install:
Yes
Compatibility tag:
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YES
’]]]
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