Monitor the System Health DRAFT [more to add]

You can subscribe to receive email notifications when there is an unexpected change in the state of certain processes. This feature works in conjunction with the Email Settings functionality.

For example, if your username is part of the SENDLOGS email notification group, you can subscribe to receive emails when the Message Center or EJM processes are unexpectedly started, stopped, or restarted.

To monitor the status of system processes:

1. In System Management Center, click System Settings in the left navigation and then click System Health Monitor.
   You see the System Health Monitor workspace.
   
2. To edit an existing monitoring service, right click a service and select Edit.
   
3. In this dialog box, you are able to adjust the Installation and Service Type parameters for system monitoring.
   
   
4. Review the process parameters for which notifications will be sent. Click Save.
   
5. To add a new status monitor, right click anywhere and click New.
   
6. In this dialog box, you are able to select a monitoring service for new processes by selecting the environment, service type, and parameters for which notifications will be sent. Click Save.
   
7. To monitor KPI attributes, select the KPI Attributes Monitor tab.
   
8. To edit an existing monitoring service, right click a selection and click Edit.
   
9. You can make adjustments to select the appropriate the environment and service type for monitoring.
   
   
10. The Measure Type dropdown allows you to select a system parameter for monitoring. You can also adjust the Warning Value and Critical Value to specify the bounds at which a notification will be sent. The Warning Value specifies a value close to the critical threshold, and the Critical Value specifies a value which exceeds this threshold. Click Save.
    
11. To add a new KPI Attributes monitor, right click anywhere and click New.
    
12. In this dialog box, you can select the installation, service type, measure type, and threshold parameters for which notifications will be sent. Click Save.
    
13. To monitor core dumps, select the Core Dumps Monitor tab. To edit existing services, right click on a selection and click Edit.
    
14. In this dialog box, choose a storage directory for the coredump, the backup storage threshold for the directory, and the check rate preferences for the coredump files. Click Save.
    
15. To monitor the Oracle Clusters, select the Oracle Cluster Monitor tab. To edit the existing services, right click a selection and click Edit.
    
16. In this dialog box, you can adjust the parameters for instance rates by check period time spans. Click Save.
    
17. To monitor the event logs, select the Event Log Monitor tab. To create a new monitoring service, right click anywhere and click New.
    
18. In this dialog box, you can specify the installation environment, log name, and check period interval for the event log alerts selected. Click Save.
    
19. To monitor the error logs, select the Logs Error Monitor tab. To create a new monitoring service, right click anywhere and select New.
    
20. In this dialog box, you can specify the installation environment and input text to search in the error log records. Click Save.
    
21. To close the workspace, click the X in the System Health Monitor bottom tab.

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