2015 in numbers…

I am spending good times since I have moved in Switzerland 3 years ago. 2015 has been as good as 2014. Now that January ends, I am officially late in publishing this information, but it’s MY blog, so who cares? 😛

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A few numbers:

25 blog posts (+1)
~52000 page views (+40%), ~43000 visits (+48%)
Speaker at 2 major conferences (#C15LV, #UKOUG_TECH15)
Speaker at 2 Trivadis internal conferences
Speaker at 1 local user group event
Delegate of EOUC at DOAG 2015
A total of 14 public speeches (same as 2014)
I’ve been elected RAC SIG Vice President
2 RAC Attack workshops organized
1 roundtable as organizer, 1 panel
2 T-shirt designed as gifts for 2 RAC Attack workshops
2 articles published
Launched the RAC SIG website and the new session agenda
Countless new friends and/or contacts

I hope that 2016 will be as good as 2015

Configuring the MySQL Database Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

I have blogged in the past about MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0 and I was quite happy at the very beginning, but after a while I have to admit that I was missing many of the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c features.

In particular, MEM 3.0 does not have a usable database. In MEM all the tables are crypted and it is not possible to list, for example, all the targets monitored, nor it is possible via API or REST web services because MEM 3.0 lacks these features.

What makes EM12c a GREAT product comparing to MEM, are many features like blackouts, a usable command line interface (emcli), integrated reporting, scheduler, automatic groups… the list would be just huge.

Luckily, Oracle has officially released a MySQL plugin for EM12c, provided that the EM is at least in version 12.1.0.4.

So I’ve upgraded (a while ago) my customer’s EM12c to 12.1.0.5. and decided to try the plugin.

The first step is to download the last version of plugin for MySQL.

I can verify that you have the last version by going to

Setup -> Extensibility -> Self-Update -> Plugins:

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The agent has been downloaded, but in order to make it available on the targets, I first need to deploy it on the management servers (2 OMSes in my case):

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Check the plugin name and version:

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Verify the prerequisites check (here I have one column per OMS):
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Specify the credentials for the Management Repository:
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Execute the deploy:

2015-08-19 13_55_52-Deploy Plug-ins on Management Servers     If everything went OK, I’m able to check the status of the deployment:

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Now I can see that the plugin is correctly deployed on the OMSes, I can do the same for the agents:

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2015-08-19 13_58_57-Plug-ins - Oracle Enterprise ManagerI must select one by one the agents that run on the hosts where I have MySQL running. I may select all agents as well, but it’s better to be neat…

2015-08-19 13_59_35-Plug-ins - Oracle Enterprise Manageragain, there are prerequisite checks and confirmations:

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2015-08-19 13_59_54-Plug-ins - Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe plugin deployment went well:

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2015-08-19 14_01_25-Plug-ins - Oracle Enterprise ManagerNow I can run the target discovery on the agent:

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But the discovery does not find my MySQL targets. What went wrong?

2015-08-19 14_02_19-Setup Discovery - Oracle Enterprise ManagerEach agent has a default list of “discovery modules”  used for the discovery, but by default the MySQL one is not enabled after I install the plugin:

2015-08-19 14_02_50-Discovery Modules_ slv1314p - Oracle Enterprise Managerso it is necessary to activate it and deactivate the discovery modules I do not need:

2015-08-19 14_03_17-Discovery Modules_ slv1314p - Oracle Enterprise ManagerTada! at the next discovery, I have my target available:

2015-08-19 14_03_48-Setup Discovery - Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe target name is automatically set to hostname:mysqlport:

2015-08-19 14_04_01-Auto Discovery Results - Oracle Enterprise Manageras all discovered targets, I need to promote it to have it available for monitoring with EM12c:

2015-08-19 14_22_07-Promote Discovered Target - Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe target is available, now I can use most of the EM12c features to monitor my MySQL environment.

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Ludovico

Recording of “Rapid Home Provisioning” webinar for the RAC SIG

Yesterday I have presented the Oracle Rapid Home Provisioning technology for the RAC SIG, you can find the recording on YouTube:

Cheers

Ludo