Re: Monitoring instances - SNMP?

"SK" <sk6erase277_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<aqg24o$9mbg3$1_at_ID-162553.news.dfncis.de>...
> Hello, we are a small company in Germany having several
> geographically dispersed servers running Oracle8 and Oracle8i databases.
>
> The question is, how can one effectively monitor and administer ten Oracle
> instances? We would like to have e-mail and cell-phone notification about
> critical events, like e.g. diskspace running out, or a tablespace not having
> enough space for the next extent. We would also like to have actions
> defined per critical event, e.g. "ALTER TABLESPACE xxx ADD DATAFILE..."
> and similar.
>
> We have heard about SNMP, yes, but what's the best way to approach it?

Yes that's the best way no doubt.

> Out budget is limited. Also, we access all our databases from a central
> office by means of (slow!) modems and ISDN connections.
>
> Would MRTG be a right approach?

Well in that case you should rather go for a Hosted monitoring of the Oracle's SNMP variables through Database Monitoring features from http://www.Rapidprobe.com. It offer's real-time alerts through e-mail or cell-phones too AFAIK.

Regards
Tarun Received on Fri Nov 08 2002 - 13:05:47 CST