While configuring the Oracle tests, a link Click here is provided along with the parameters to be configured. The user can reach this page via that link present above the list of parameters to be configured. This page allows the administrator to add a new user to the database.

• The host name, port number and sid of the Oracle server to be configured appear in the corresponding location and cannot be changed. 

• The version of the Oracle server to be monitored can be selected from the DB VERSION list box.

• If the user chooses to monitor Oracle 7.x, it is mandatory to provide the password of the SYS user in the SYS PASSWORD text box. If the user chooses to monitor Oracle 12c and above, then a DB CONNECTION flag will appear. During a typical installation of Oracle 12c, you will be asked if you wish to create the database as a container database. If you have selected the Create as Container database checkbox during installation, then you would be required to provide a Pluggable database name. If you have chosen to create the database as a container database and provided a Pluggable database name, then set this flag to PDB. By default, this flag is set to PDB.

• To add a new user, specify the database administrator's login and password in DB ADMIN and DB ADMIN PASSWORD text boxes respectively.

• The user name and password of the DB user has to be provided in the DB USER and DB USER PASSWORD text boxes respectively. This login information is required to query Oracle's internal dynamic views, so as to fetch the current status / health of the various database components. 

• While creating a new user, the account has to be associated with a default tablespace where the user's data is hosted and a temporary tablespace which is used for buffering, sorting etc. The identities of the default and temporary tablespaces have to be input in the DEFAULT TABLESPACE and TEMP TABLESPACE fields respectively.

Clicking on the ADD button will add this new DB user to the existing list of users whereas, the CLEAR button helps the user to erase the existing contents.