Configuring Oracle Database

In case you decide to create a Database Instance for BI Monitor, follow the coming steps:

  1. Create a new Database Instance for Monitor (No specific name is required, but IBM WebSphere BI Monitor recommends WFMDB as the Monitor Database Instance name).

  2. Create the required TableSpaces in both the Monitor Database (WFMDB) and the EventQueue Database (FMCDB). BI Monitor allows you to control the distribution of the Monitor and the EventQueue Database tables and indices into a number of TableSpaces. The database tables and indices are grouped and categorized so that each category can be assigned to a separate TableSpace.

This number is the maximum number of TableSpaces to which you can assign the database tables and indices. This means you do not have to create all these TableSpaces, but you can create part of them. In this case, during the deployment steps, you can assign more than one group of tables or indices to the same TableSpace.

Please refer to the section named Database Tables and Indexes Allocation with Multiple TableSpaces for details about the distribution of the Monitor and EventQueue database tables and indexes on multiple TableSpaces.

  1. For each created TableSpace, make sure that you allocate enough storage for the expected growth rate of the data size.

  2. Enable the Java VM on both the WFMDB instance that you have created as the Monitor database, and the FMCDB database instance (the MQ Workflow Database), which is usually created by the fmczutil configuration utility of MQ-Workflow without the Java VM option.

You need to enable the Java VM option only if you have two separate database instances for the Monitor database and the EventQueue database. In case you are using the FMCDB instance as the Monitor database (Single Instance), then you don’t need to perform this step.

  1. Create a new user that will be used by the BI Monitor server to access the Monitor database.

If you decide to use the FMCDB Instance (The MQ Workflow database) as the Monitor database instance (single instance for both), then the BI Monitor will use the Monitor Connection User (WFM) to access the FMC Schema (the MQ Workflow database schema) in order to perform the following database actions: