Re: Alternatives to OEM Diagnostic/Tuning Packs

From: Rodd Holman <rodd.holman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:28:50 -0500
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We have the same issue with OEM. We went with Ignite for a couple of SQLServer instances and I am very pleased. It has some good reports with drill down and knowledge base suggestions. I am now recommending it for some of the Oracle instances. The pricing is higher for Oracle, but still WAY below the Arm+Leg+First Born that Oracle wants for their product.

Ignite is also brain dead simple to install. In less than 4 hours I downloaded CentOS 6.2 x64 DVD iso, created a VMWare 8 VM, downloaded Ignitefree, ran the installer.sh script, started the monitor with startup.sh and started monitoring 4 oracle db's.

I created the repository db in an existing sqlserver instance which was created as part of installer.sh (no special configuration required).

All of this is legally no cost! For full functionality, you need to by the pay version, but the free version is quite good too.

Compare this to weeks of document reading, patch getting, license deciphering, and general hair pulling with OEM. Exactly what counts as a processor? Core? How many users? What type. ARRGGH!

I'm pushing to get this full version for all of our production db's. I can proactively use the free version on our developement systems to help diagnose stuff before it goes live.

--Rodd Holman

On Jun 28, 2012 6:43 PM, "Jared Still" <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, D Kenl <dkenlwork_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Embarcadero DB Performance Center XE (with DB Optimizer)
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> At a previous employer the oracle packs were 100k plus maintenance.
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