EM13c: Get List of URLs Monitored by Beacons

When you need to monitor web services, you can use EM beacons. A beacon is a target that allows the EM Agent to remotely monitor services. You can add beacons to any EM agent using “Add Non-Host Targets by Specifying Target Monitoring Properties” option in the Add Targets Manually page. After adding a beacon, you can configure it to fetch a web page and test the status of the service according to the result of the web transaction.

One of my blog reader said that they have a list of URLs and they need to know which beacon server is polling each URL by querying the URL. We need to query four views to get this information: mgmt_targets, mgmt_bcn_target, mgmt_bcn_step_defn, mgmt_bcn_step_props.

You can see the relation between these views in the diagram, and here’s the list of URLs monitored by all beacons:

SELECT t.HOST_NAME,
  t.TARGET_NAME,
  bsp.STRING_VALUE,
  bsp.NAME
FROM MGMT_TARGETS t,
  MGMT_BCN_TARGET bt,
  MGMT_BCN_STEP_DEFN bsd,
  MGMT_BCN_STEP_PROPS bsp
WHERE bt.BEACON_TARGET_GUID = t.TARGET_GUID
AND bsp.STEP_GUID = bsd.STEP_GUID
AND bsd.TARGET_GUID = bt.TARGET_GUID
AND bsp.NAME = 'url';