Re: Database Monitoring Question for the DBA Gods

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:57:14 -0500
Message-ID: <8wd84.448$j9.45447@tw11.nn.bcandid.com>

It depends what's in the monitor. There are a fair number of products out there including the OEM and it's add-on packs. I wrote one in PowerBuilder that I use every day. It gives me some things I wanted that I couldn't find in any commercial tool. A new one would have to stand out from the crowd in some way, offer capabilities that the others don't and be reasonably priced.

Van

Bert Scalzo <bscalzo_at_home.com> wrote in message news:_F784.14240$t7.978972_at_news1.rdc2.tx.home.com...
> I have a serious question for Senior DBA's out there. If there were a
simple
> to
> install, easy to use, light weight database monitoring solution -- that
> also did not
> cost an arm and a leg. That would be great, huh? But what if that solution
> required
> an NT application server to do the centralized monitoring from? Would such
> an NT
> based solution be useful? Would it be accepted by UNIX only shops? What
> would
> you be willing to pay for such a monitor? I'd appreciate any and all
> answers.
>
> Bert Scalzo
> bscalzo_at_home.com
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 17:57:14 CST