Add an Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure

With a private endpoint defined, you’re ready to add an Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure that uses that endpoint. You can add Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructures from the Private endpoint details page or from the Exadata fleet administration page.

1. Open the navigation menu, click Observability & Management, and then click Ops Insights.
2. In the left pane, click Administration, and then click Exadata fleet.

   The Exadata fleet administration page displays.

3. Click Add Exadata System.
4. Ensure Cloud Infrastructure is selected, and select ExaDB-D.
5. Select the Services to enable for the Exadata system. Ops Insights and Database Management can be enabled together.
   Note
   
   Selecting Database Management enables it for the selected database members only. It does not enable Database Management monitoring of the VM cluster or Exadata infrastructure. To enable full Exadata infrastructure monitoring, start the wizard from Database Management and use a Management Agent.
6. Click Next to go to the Exadata members section.
7. Select the Exadata Infrastructure compartment, and then select the Exadata Infrastructure to add.
8. Select the VM cluster compartment that contains the VM cluster, and then select the VM cluster. You can select the type of cluster you wish to onboard:
   • VM cluster: At least one CDB must be added (if one was not previously on-boarded). It is required to pull the Exadata metrics. Cell metrics will not be available if no Oracle Databases are located within the cluster.
   • Autonomous VM cluster: Enter the Autonomous AI Database compartments where the Autonomous AI Databases are located.
9. In the Private endpoint section, select Ops Insights private endpoint or Database Management private endpoint. Select the compartment that contains the private endpoint, and then select the private endpoint.

   Optionally, click + Another VM cluster to add an additional VM cluster or Autonomous VM cluster. You can include both cluster types in the same onboarding flow.

   If a warning indicates that prerequisites are required for Ops Insights to access databases in the Exadata system, click Complete the prerequisites. Policies created outside Ops Insights might already satisfy these prerequisites.

   Once the Exadata Infrastructure, VM cluster and/or Autonomous VM cluster, and private endpoint have been selected, you have the option of adding member databases now or at a later time. Member databases within the selected VM cluster appear in the Database members table.

10. To enable a member CDB for Ops Insights, you must set the credentials. Select the database, click the Actions menu, and then select Set credentials.

    Alternatively, you can set credentials at the cluster level by clicking Set credentials for all databases in VM cluster. This is an optional way to set credentials for all databases in a cluster in a single action. All databases must share the same monitoring credentials.

11. Enter the required credential information and click Set Credentials.
    Note
    
    The database user should be a common user between the CDB and all PDBs within the CDB. See Creating the Oracle Database Monitoring Credentials for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Management, Ops Insights and Stack Monitoring (Article ID 2933173).
12. Click Next to go to the Database system section.

    A message indicates that Database Management setup is not required. No Cloud Database System discovery is performed.

13. Click Next to go to the Exadata Infrastructure section.

    A message indicates that Database Management Exadata infrastructure discovery is not required.

14. Click Next to go to the Review section, and review the Exadata infrastructure, VM cluster, private endpoint, and database credential information.
15. Click Add Exadata System.
    Note
    
    If Database Management is selected, it is enabled for the selected database members that have complete credentials and are not already enabled or being enabled. The selected private endpoint is used for the Database Management connection. After Database Management enablement completes, the Ops Insights Exadata insight is created.

As noted earlier, if you did not enable all member databases while adding the Exadata system to Ops Insights, you can add them on the Exadata details page. The newly added system will appear in the Exadata fleet administration page.