Discovering usage of Oracle Database features
To retrieve detailed information about Oracle Database editions, options, and management
packs that are used in your infrastructure, use
Get Oracle Database Measurements fixlet. When the information is imported
to BigFix Inventory, it is displayed on the
Oracle Databases report.
Before you begin
For Linux, AIX, and Solaris endpoints, the Get Oracle Database Measurements fixlet provides accurate information.
- Distribute the Oracle reporting script to the relevant endpoints and run the Get Oracle Database Measurements fixlet.
Get Oracle Database Measurements fixlet description provides detailed explanation about its use.
Starting from version 10.0.11, pluggable databases (CDB/PDB)
can be distinguished. The below image shows the detected licensable options grouped by the
database, on which they were detected. The image also shows the theta database
instance, which has CDB root named
CDB$ROOT
and pluggable database
THETAPDB
. Databases without multitenancy are not renamed, such as
beta database. Databases prior to version 12 are named after the name of the
instance.

