Re: Quest monitoring vs OEM

Sinardy,

If possible, try to go for a tool that can measure end-to-end in your clients application environment.

If you use OEM for other monitoring, that would be a point in its favor, just one tool to manage, maintain, etc.

Try to dampen your boss' enthusiasm. Managers usually get weak in the knees when shown GUI products. But consider how much hassle these products can be to: select (you are just beginning the journey), purchase (your manager will want you to provide the justification, and that can come back to haunt you), install, configure across all your servers, then maintain, repurchase/relicense for future upgrades, etc. At the salesman's pitch it can sound easy and glorious, but over the long haul can take a lot of your time that could be productively spent elsewhere.

Dennis Williams

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