Oracle Backups

Purpose

This monitor can monitor backup status, dutation, size and elapsed time since last backup. You can quickly set general failed backup monitoring rules as well as custom rules for specific types of backups.

Configuration hints

Create a new rule and select the type of backup to monitor and the expected status. <br/> Use the thresholds fields for setting the maximum duration, size and elapsed time. <br/><br/> If a backup with matching the filter is found breaching any threshold, an alarm will be sent.

<br/>For threshold you can use the multi threshold syntax. If you set a numeric value instead, the secerity field will be used to set the alarm severity. <br/><br/> Set a threshold to 0 if you don't want to use it.

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	To enable/disable a rule
Backup type	A filter on the type backup of the backup
Backup status	A filter on the status the backup
Elapsed time from last backup	Threshold for the maximum time elapsed since the backup of the same type.
Unit	The unit of time used for the elapsed time threshold.
Duration time in sec	The maximum duration of the backup in seconds.
Backup size in MB	The maximum size of the backup in MB.
Severity	The severity of the alert sent if a threshold is breached.
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore
Alarm tag	This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will containthe actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tagwill be used as prefix.
Alarm	To enable alarm sending
Metric	To enable metric sending
Report	If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report, in case that is available.

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
ORACLE_DATABASE_ELAPSED_TIME_SINCE_LAST_BACKUP_DAYS	Days
ORACLE_DATABASE_ELAPSED_TIME_SINCE_LAST_BACKUP_HOURS	Hours
ORACLE_DATABASE_ELAPSED_TIME_SINCE_LAST_BACKUP_MINUTES	Minutes
ORACLE_DATABASE_BACKUP_DURATION_TIME	Seconds
ORACLE_DATABASE_BACKUP_SIZE	MB