Re: Instance Monitor - Any Good?

We use it here off/on.

For the most part we're pretty tuned up these days though.

Overall, it keeps you posed on whats going on. It picks up peaks. It may be alarmed for a bit, but its the ones that are consistent that I'd look into.

Its very effective at telling you who's up to what though when load goes ballistic for some reason. You can quickly pin point who is soaking your system and why. (Accountants? <wink> wink) ;)

I'd pose that exact question of yours to them. They've been very helpful with any of my inquries.

Between IM and space manager, I think its pretty competitively priced compared to oracle's performance pack which is good, but pricy!.

Ron

In article <7u2ba3$tmb$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, hughjanus_at_my-deja.com says...
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> Hi,
>
>Been evaluating Instance Monitor, from Quest Software, with mixed
>results. For example,
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>Shows an alarm about Buffer Busy waits being a high percentage of non-
>idle waits, & advises that either freelists or rollback segments are
>insufficient.
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>However, using trusty old SQL*Plus to query the data dictionary, I find
>Free List waits are 0, and the undo wiats are a fraction of a percent
>of the total of db block + consistent gets.
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>So why the alarm?
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>Am I missing something, or does this tool not work very well??
>
>Cheers
>Webbo
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Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 16:57:23 CDT