OEM and monitoring the -MGMTDB GMIR Database

When you create Grid Infrastructure in 12.1.0.2, you are presented with a new (annoyingly named) “-MGMTDB”

This database is a standard, 12C CDB/PDB storing transient performance and other information (Grid Infrastructure Management Repository). If it is lost, no biggie. Just re-create it (in your voting disk DG. Aside: create a new MGMTDB_DG, move your voting disk there, re-create -MGMTDB, then move your voting disk back out to the proper multiple voting volumes.)

However, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.5.0 and earlier sees this oracle database, PDB, listener and all, and decides to discover it. This is incorrect and should not happen. It is supposed to be “masked off” from OEM. Monitoring this database system will only lead to false positives and problems where none really exist, and all of the targets should be ignored (as per the attached picture)

In a future release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, these targets will no longer be discovered and will automatically remain hidden from view within OEM, once the team have fixed the bug which – I was very reliably informed – they discovered the root cause of today.