Configuring Licensing
Stack Monitoring provides two licensing options for monitoring your enterprise, Standard and Enterprise Editions:
- Stack Monitoring Standard Edition discovers and monitors applications and its underlying stack deployed on-premises and cloud (OCI or 3rd party clouds). Generally, these are referred to as ‘resources.’ Monitored resources include applications such as E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, and application tech stack components such as WebLogic Servers, Tomcat, Oracle Database, and hosts.
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Stack Monitoring Enterprise Edition provides enhanced monitoring features such as Metric Extensions, baselines/anomalies on performance, ability to import OCI resources into Stack Monitoring for performance correlation across the application stack. These features are either enabled on a per resource basis or across an entire compartment.
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Resource specific features
- Baseline and Anomalies - Uses ML on historical data to identify if a resource is performing within expected boundaries or is anomalous.
- Metric Extensions - Allows for the creation of metrics using custom scripts.
- Maintenance Windows - Scheduled time for maintenance operations during which resource alarm notifications are suppressed.
- Compartment specific features
- Enterprise Extensibility - Extends Stack Monitoring to support custom resource types. Custom resource types can be added by importing OCI resources into Stack Monitoring. Once imported, a resource homepage will be created. From within that homepage, navigate to related resources UI and create associations between the newly imported resource and other Stack Monitoring resources.
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Licensing Assignment
Configure Licensing for Resource-Specific Features
Resource license assignment can done at the individual resource level during discovery or after discovery within the Licensing UI.
License changes applied to a composite will apply to all children (e.g. When applying Enterprise Edition License to a WebLogic Domain, all WebLogic Servers associated to the domain will also receive the Enterprise Edition)
Configure Licensing for Resource-Specific Features during Discovery
During discovery, you may assign a license to the resource by selecting the corresponding radio button.
Configure Licensing for Resource-Specific Features after Discovery
A resource license can also be modified after a resource has been discovered using the License UI. For example, to upgrade a Standard Edition resource to Enterprise Edition, navigate to the License UI and click the edit button within the Standard Edition box. The page will filter to only show resources with a Standard Edition license. Click the action button of the resource to upgrade and select Enterprise from the drop down. Continue this process for the remaining resources to upgrade from Standard to Enterprise Edition, finally select apply changes. When applying license changes, remain on the page until all updates have been applied.
Resource Licensing Auto-Assignment.
The resource license auto-assignment can be set to Enterprise or Standard for all newly resources discovered or promoted resources within a compartment. Configuring license auto-assignment is a convenient way to automatically assign a license instead of apply on a per resource instance basis. To configure the resource license auto-assignment, locate the auto-assignment box within Licensing page of the Stack Monitoring UI.
Enterprise Extensibility
Enterprise extensibility is enabled or disable for an entire compartment. To configure enterprise extensibility, locate the enterprise extensibility box within Licensing page of the Stack Monitoring UI.
