Monitoring Oracle Java Cloud Service instances using the Fusion Middleware Control Console

1. Sign in to the My Services application at https://cloud.oracle.com/sign_in after selecting the appropriate Public Cloud Services Data Center option. The My Services Dashboard appears.

2. In the Oracle Java Cloud Service section, click Open Service Console. The Oracle Java Cloud Service Console page is displayed.

   

3. On your Oracle Java Cloud Service Console, click the icon for the service instance that you want to manage, and then click Open Fusion Middleware Control Console.

   

4. The Fusion Middleware Control Console login page is displayed. Use a valid WebLogic Server administrative user name and password to log into the console. You may want to use the WebLogic Administrator username and password that you provided when creating the service instance (for example wlssandbox/Welcome#1).

   

5. The Fusion Middleware Control Administration Console home page is displayed.

   

Each monitored/managed item within Fusion Middleware Control is called a target. The Target Navigation tree shows the hierarchy of targets. By clicking over one of those targets the user navigates to the target home page.

1. In the Target Navigation tree, expand WebLogic Domain node and click on the domain name link.

   

The WebLogic Domain home page is rendered. It presents different sections showing information about the clusters, servers and deployments in the domain.



2. At the top-left corner of the workspace area, right below the target name, you will find the target menu. Navigate through the target menu to access pages that show information and status of specific resources and services that make up the domain, such as clusters, servers, JDBC data sources, JMS servers and modules, and so on.

   

If not already signed in to the My Services application at https://cloud.oracle.com/sign_in, do so again after selecting the appropriate Public Cloud Services Data Center option. The My Services Dashboard appears.

1. In the Target Navigaton tree, Right Click the WebLogic Domain node and select Expand All Below to see all servers in the domain.

   

2. Access the server home page by clicking over the tree node representing server you want to monitor.

At the top of the workspace area you will find the Summary section, showing information about the current status of the server. Next to the Summary section, the Response and Load chart provides you with data about server throughput and response time.

1. Click the Table View link to switch from the chart to a list representation of collected metric values.

   

2. Scroll down the page to see the Application Deployments and Most Requested sections.

   

1. Using the target menu select Monitoring > Performance Summary to access the Performance Summary page.

   

   The Performance Summary page shows a list of charts, each one presenting the evolution over time of one or more metrics. The default layout includes metrics like CPU and memory consumption, number of active sessions, response and load and JVM memory management among others.

   

2. The Performance Summary view comes in very handy to create custom dashboards. Clicking the Show Metric Palette button the tree of available metrics will show up. You can either check the metrics you want to include in your custom dashboard to create a new chart or drag & drop them over an existing chart so that multiple metrics are presented together to allow for better correlation and analysis.

   

   

3. Once you have your custom dashboard created you may want to save it by clicking on the Save Charts button and providing a name. That way you will be able to switch between different layouts focused on different monitoring perspectives. Use the Slider control to choose the time window you want to analyze.

   

4. Finally, the Overlay menu allows you to compare the current behavior with:

   • Another server
   • A previously saved baseline

   

The Topology Viewer is a graphical representation of routing relationships across components and elements of the domain. You can easily determine how requests are routed across components. For example, you can see how requests are routed a Managed Server, to a data source and finally to the database.

1. From the target menu select > Routing Topology to access the Routing Topology page

   

2. Click the filter icon to have the Node Types section show up. Select the type of components you want to be part of the topology view. Then click the Show Entire Domain button to include the whole domain in the topology view

   

You may still want to access the single source of truth that originates most of the information we have talked about so far. If that is the case you may want to explore the raw data that is accessible as system MBeans.

1. From the target menu select > System MBean Browser to access the MBean tree.

   

2. In the MBean tree you can look for specific MBeans and/or filter the tree using MBean patterns by clicking  oricons respectively. Select the MBean of your choice in the MBean navigation tree and see how the workspace area gets updated with information, attributes and operations exposed by that MBean.