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Re: Compuware ServerVantage?

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 14 Nov 2006 09:56:48 -0800
Message-ID: <1163527008.619998.185510@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>

EdStevens wrote:
> Anyone have any experience with Compuware ServerVantage, as regards
> monitoring Oracle databases, they'd care to share? Or simply links to
> other reading?
>
> My boss just dropped on me an extract of the installation/setup
> procedure and asked what was needed for account setup on the OS and the
> database. This is the first I've even heard of this, but it smells
> like its purchase and implementation might already be a fait accompli.
> Looks like someone, somewhere else, is trying to solve a percived
> 'database problem' without doing any internal research or consultation
> with the DBA's. (This company has a deep history of low and mid-level
> managers hatching up 'solutions' in a vacuum.)
>
> I'm looking at the Compuware web site, but of course want to gather any
> other potentially useful info. I'm not trying to mount a knee-jerk
> opposition, just trying to get educated as quickly as possible so I can
> decide if counter recommendations are warranted.

I spent 5 years as a consultant for Compuware ( ending almost 3 years ago ) doing oracle work. Never used any of the compuware oracle tools back then ... they were rudimentary at best back then and other vendors ( Quest, BMC, Tivoli etc ) had better products at that time.

Compuware did have a long history of providing quality tools on the mainframe side. That part of the company is still paying the bills but not much development money has gone in lately and the company is still milking a decreasing revenue side.

The whole "non mainframe" toolset that Compuware sells was purchased from other companies and "glued together" to make it look like an integrated solution. Not exactly. Many of the companies that sold compuware these tools used the money that they obtained to re-write a new generation of better monitoring tools.

Perhaps the oracle stuff from compuware has improved drastically and is state of the art monitoring software. Perhaps pigs can fly to the moon.

Why don't you start looking at the documentation in detail and then make your own assessment of the usefulness of these tools? Give us an update eventually. Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 11:56:48 CST

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