RE: PATROL Availability Suite for Oracle

Hi all,
 We have been running PATROL Agent on AIX (HP-UX, DEC/Compaq Alphas) for over 2 years now to monitor Oracle databases. We have not found the Agent Program taking up any considerable portion of any resources. The CPU % is around 2-3 most of the times. We do not montior the OS using this Agent, however. One other tool does that, and if PATROL Agent was to use more resources, that tool would alert us whenever that happened.  

I do not work for BMC, but have worked with this product for quite some time and have been pleased with what we have got. We have customized it to monitor only the parameters we wanted and to send e-mail/pages at appropriate times.

If anyone needs detail information, please e-mail me off-line, and I will be glad to share what I know and have learned.

HTH, Regards,

• Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Spence [SMTP:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:07 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: PATROL Availability Suite for Oracle
>
> Patrol is pretty good, but they still have the problem of eatting up a
> decent portion of the resources. There are products out there that have
> better efficiency. But BMC is a good name when it comes to montitoring.
>
> "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
> both are frozen."
>
> Christopher R. Spence
> Oracle DBA
> Fuelspot
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> A couple years ago I was evaluating the use of Patrol on our AIX box.
> Now,
> the products seem to be prety good but, back then, they had a major
> problem
> with taking up all the resources on your machine.
>
> They may have changed this with the newer releases ... but back then, we
> decided against and went with our own in-house generated monitoring.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:36 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Would appreciate feedback positive and/or negative from anyone who is
> using
> "PATROL Availability Suite for Oracle". And if ye had a look but decided
> against it why?.
>
>
> Sean :)
>
> Rookie Data Base Administrator
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