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Default Parameters for OVMMemoryTest

Using this test administrators can quickly understand how the VMs are using the memeory resources and can thus determine whether/not they are likely to cause a memory contention on the host.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the OVMMemoryTest.

  • The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

  • This test remotely connects to the Oracle VM Manager that manages the monitored Oracle VM Server and uses the web services API of the Oracle VM Manager to pull out metrics of interest. To enable this test to communicate with the web services API, you first need to configure the test with the IP address or host name of the Oracle VM Manager. This can be done using the ORACLE VM MANAGER text box. Then, you need to configure the test with the credentials of a user with Admin rights to the Oracle VM Manager. Use the ORACLE VM MANAGER USER and ORACLE VM MANAGER PASSWORD parameters to configure these credentials. Finally, confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

  • By default, the Oracle VM Manager is SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to Yes by default. This indicates that the eG agent will communicate with the Oracle VM Manager via HTTPS by default.

  • By default, the Oracle VM Manager listens on 7002. This implies that while monitoring an Oracle VM server via an SSL-enabled Oracle VM Manager, the eG agent, by default, connects to port 7002 of the Oracle VM Manager to pull out metrics. In some environments however, this default port may not apply. In such a case, against the WEBPORT parameter, you can specify the exact port at which the Oracle VM Manager in your environment listens so that the eG agent communicates with that port.

  • Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.