Register an Amazon RDS for Oracle database

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle database instances have three connection options:

• Direct Connect
• Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) Connect Descriptor
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or TNS Name

Direct Connect

Enter the Service Name or System Identifier (SID), host name or IP address, and port. The default port is 1521.

TNS Connect Descriptor

The Connect Descriptor value contains everything after NAME= in the tnsnames.ora file. The beginning (DESCRIPTION= is necessary. For example:

(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = demo.confio.com)(PORT = 1521)))(CONNECT_DATA =(SERVICE_NAME = demo)))

LDAP or TNS Name

To use this option, Oracle Name Resolution must be configured. For instructions, see Connect to Oracle using name resolution.

After you configure Oracle Name Resolution, you can use the LDAP/TNS Name when registering additional monitored database instances.

RAC instances

If this is an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) instance, there may be listener configuration changes needed if you are not listening on the physical IP address. SolarWinds recommends:

• If you are registering pluggable databases (PDBs) on a RAC instance, consider registering with the physical IP address of the host.
• If you are registering a non-PDB RAC instance, consider registering with the SID.
• If you are using the Service Name, consider using the physical IP address of the host. Do not use the virtual IP address (VIP) or the Oracle Single Client Access Name (SCAN) IP address.

DBA user

Enter DBA credentials for DPA to register the database instance.

Create or specify the account that DPA will use to gather information. To ensure that the account has the required permissions, SolarWinds recommends creating a new account.

To create a new account:

1. Next to Create Monitoring User, click Yes.
2. Enter the user name and password.
3. Select a Tablespace and Temp Tablespace on the monitored database. This is primarily used for gathering Explain Plan data for monitored queries.

To specify an existing account:

1. Next to Create Monitoring User, click No.
2. Enter the user name and password.

If you create the user manually, DPA uses the default Tablespaces for that user.

If the monitored instance contains the Oracle E-Business Suite, DPA can collect additional information about the suite.

DPA can capture Oracle E-Business data to identify the screens, modules, and users generating the database requests. This gives you increased visibility into the causes of performance problems in the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Oracle Applications environments.

The SYS password option is not available for Amazon RDS instances.

If your repository database is not Oracle, the wizard skips this step.

Choose the tablespace in the repository database to store DPA performance data for this monitored instance.

By default, the performance data is stored in the default tablespace of the repository user. However, data for monitored instances can be stored in separate tablespaces.

If you have no Alert Groups set up, or if this new database instance does not match the database type of the Alert Group, the wizard skips this step.

Alert Groups simplify alert configuration and help make alerting more consistent across the monitored database instances.

Select the Alert Groups you want the new database instance to join.