It’s been asked several times to me how to add RAC (Clustered Databases) to Enterprise Manager 12c. Finally I found time to get screenshots and prepare a step-by-step guide. The interesting point about adding Clustered Databases is, when you try to discover (and add) a cluster databases like you do a stand-alone database, EM12c does not show you an error but the process doesn’t complete. It makes users to feel like there’s a bug. In fact, it’s just because user miss a required step.
So how to add a RAC Database? First of all, we need to deploy agents to all nodes. you can find related document on my blog. After you deployed agents to all nodes, we’ll add “Oracle Cluster and High Avaliablity Service”.
Go to “Add Targets Manually” page (setup>add target), select “Add Targets Using Guided Process” and select “Oracle Cluster and High Avaliablity Service”.
Select one of the nodes which is part of the cluster. You don’t need to select all hosts (in fact it doesn’t let you do multiple-select, and one node is enough.
It’ll discover the other nodes, and show you the findings so you may edit them if required. Click “Next”, review and then save the cluster. Now we have the cluster information, so we can add our clustered (RAC) database.
Go to “Add Targets Manually” page again, select “Add Targets Using Guided Process” and select “Oracle Database, Listener and Automatic Storage Manager”.
Instead of picking one of nodes, now you need to select “cluster” (we previously discovered and added to EM12c). Click “Next”.
It’ll discover databases and ASM, and you’ll be able to review the result and add the database to EM12c by clicking “Next” and then “Save”. So we successfully added our RAC Databases(s) to EM12c.