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Force metric collection in Oracle Enterprise Manager

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When working on the implementation of monitoring via Oracle Enterprise Manager, it is sometimes necessary to perform several tests with different thresholds in order to refine alerting, or simply to verify that the monitoring is working properly.

The main problem is that you have to wait until the collection is done to see the result. Since most metrics have a “Collection Schedule” of more than 5 minutes, this can quickly become a waste of time.

To avoid this wait, it is possible to force the collection of a particular metric for a target directly from the EM agent.

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Install EM13c agent and add targets using the Linux command line only

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A few days ago, I was asked to find a way to automate the addition of newly created Linux virtual machines and databases in our EM13c console. Of course, no action should be performed via the EM web interface!

For the first part (installing the EM13c agent on newly created virtual machines), it’s quite simple, because Oracle gives you many methods (for example, “agent pull” method), in order to carry out this task. But the second part seemed more delicate according to the documentation and my constraints: everything must be done on the virtual machine. I am not allowed to connect to the EM server using SSH.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution that only requires a few extra lines in your shell script!

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