How to Enable Tracing for PL/SQL Routines in the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Repository (Doc ID 435055.1)

Last updated on JULY 12, 2021

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 10.2.0.1 to 11.1.0.1 [Release 10.2 to 11.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

The Enterprise Manager Grid Control Repository consists of many PL/SQL routines which are executed by the OMS components for their operations. For example, the EMD_LOADER package which is used by the Loader for uploading files sent by the Target Agents into the Repository tables.

The PL/SQL code flow can be traced starting from Grid Control 10gR2 (Release 10.2.0.1 onwards). This feature can be very useful when debugging some SQL exception, or trying to narrow-down a problem with one of the internal OMS server sub-systems.

An example of use would be to find out which SQL statement in a repository DBMS_JOB EMD_MAINTENANCE procedure hits the ORA-01000 error (Max Open Cursors Limit Reached).

Scope

Enterprise Manager Grid Control users / Administrators who are trying to debug / troubleshoot a problem with any of the OMS components, having an associated pl/sql routine in the Repository.