Re: Compuware ServerVantage?

hpuxrac wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the background info.

>
> Why don't you start looking at the documentation in detail.

Already pulling that together. Just thought I'd also check here to see what else might turn up.

> and then
> make your own assessment of the usefulness of these tools?

Obviously. ;-)

>Give us an
> update eventually.

Will do.

Thanks again. Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 12:22:06 CST