RE: BMC Patrol DBXray / CA Unicenter

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:09:55 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003D5DA8.20011205082021@fatcity.com>

I appreciate everyone sharing their experiences.

My question on this topic is what tools are appropriate for what environments? Some tools seem more extensive (and expensive) and therefore appropriate to sites with many Oracle instances. I am currently responsible for 5 production instances all at our HQ datacenter. On those rare occasions when something goes down, some usually quickly contacts me, so I haven't felt the need for a monitoring tool. However, we are discussing a project to put servers in a handful of manufacturing plants and they would be more 23x7 situations, so I have been reviewing OEM (it fails a lot more often than the instance, I'm not about to turn on its remote notification). Naturally vendors will claim that their product is just ideal for your type of site. Does anyone have any input on which monitoring tools are appropriate for sites with a smaller number of Oracle instances? Thanks. Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I second that, too long to list the problems I had w/ CA Unicenter, worthless expensive product. CA touts their product to top management, then you get the call to implement. Just my $.02, since you asked :)

Gene

>>> ksmith2_at_myfirstlink.net 12/04/01 08:35PM >>> CA Unicenter sucks, CA support sucks. CA sucks. Stay away.

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Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi -

Does anyone have experience with either of these products? I'm interested in ease of installation, ease of use, and quality of support. I realize they are both pricey, but they both seem to do a lot. I've been asked to look at alternatives (I'm sure the cost will be prohibitive, but we'll see).

Also if you know of any comparable tools, I'm very interested to hear about them.

Thanks much -
Lisa
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