IBM Performance Management

Configuring the MySQL agent

The Monitoring Agent for MySQL requires an instance name and the MySQL server user credentials. You can change the configuration settings after you create the first agent instance.

Before you begin

Ensure that a user is created in the MySQL database for running the agent. The user does not require any specific privileges on the MySQL database that is being monitored.

About this task

The managed system name includes the instance name that you specify, for example, instance_name:host_name:pc, where pc is your two character product code. The managed system name can contain up to 32 characters. The instance name that you specify can contain up to 28 characters, excluding the length of your host name. For example, if you specify MySQL2 as your instance name, your managed system name is MySQL2:hostname:SE.

Important: If you specify a long instance name, the managed system name is truncated and the agent code is not completely displayed.