The Health Center provides graphical interfaces
to view,
update, and reset health indicator configurations. The configuration
for health indicators is stored in the health monitor within the
instance.
About this task
You can adjust the health indicator settings for an instance,
the global health indicator settings for database objects contained
in the instance, and for individual database objects.
Before you begin
To define, change, enable or disable threshold
or sensitivity
settings for a health indicator, and to define, change, enable or
disable running tasks or scripts when a health alert occurs for a
health indicator, you must have one of the following authorities:
Procedure
- To configure health indicators using the Health Center:
- Select the instance whose health indicators
you want
to configure.
- From the Selected menu,
or from
the right-click menu, click Configure then Health
Indicator Settings. The Health Indicator Configuration
Launchpad opens.
- Each level of configuration
settings that can be updated
has a button on the launchpad. Select the button for the level of
configuration that you want to view, update, or reset. Each button
launches a Health Indicator Configuration window at the chosen level
of configuration settings.
- To update
the health indicator settings, select the
row of the health indicator in the
Current health indicator settings table.
- From
the Select menu, or from
the right-click menu, select Edit. The
Configure Health Indicator notebook opens and displays the following
information:
- A description of the health indicator is provided
by clicking Tell
Me More.
- The evaluation of the health indicator
can be enabled and disabled
using the Evaluate check box.
Note: The
Evaluate flag
can also be disabled from the Health Center
Alerts View for current alerts
through the right-click menu option on a current alert. This option
will disable the evaluation of the health indicator on the next refresh
of the indicator in the health monitor. When selecting
Disable
evaluation for an alert in the Health Center, the evaluation
flag is set to false for the health indicator, but the alert will
not be removed from the
Alerts view until the following events take
place:
- The health monitor refresh interval for that particular
health
indicator is reached
- The health monitor refreshes the health
indicator evaluation
- The Health Center refreshes its view
of status
- On the Alert page, for threshold-based
health indicators, the
warning and alarm thresholds can be updated. The sensitivity for
any health indicator can also be set on this page.
- On the
Actions page, a task or script action can be selected to
run when an alert occurs. Actions can be configured to run on warning
or alarm conditions for threshold-based health indicators or on any
non-normal condition for state-based health indicators. You can enable
or disable the execution of actions by selecting or deselecting the Enable
actions check box. To add, update, or remove task or
script actions, use the buttons beside the Script actions and
Task actions tables.
- To view the factory health indicator
settings for the instance:
- In the Health
Indicator Configuration launchpad, click Instance
Settings.
- In the Instance
Health Indicator Configuration window,
click View Default.
- To view the global health indicator settings for
databases,
table spaces, or table space containers:
- In
the Health Indicator Configuration launchpad, click Global
Settings.
- Select the object
type in the Global Health Indicator
Configuration window.
- To view the factory
defaults for these global settings,
click View Default
- To view the health indicator settings for a database
object:
- In the Health Indicator Configuration
launchpad, click Object
Settings.
- Select the object
in the Object Health Indicator Configuration
window.
- To view the global default health
indicator settings
for this object type, click View Default.
Results
In each of these windows,
to reset the settings of all the
displayed health indicators to their defaults, click
Reset
to Default. You can also reset individual health indicators
by right-clicking one or more health indicators that you want in the
Current
health indicator settings field and selecting
Reset
to Default from the pop-up menu.