Re: Basic Scripts for Database Administration

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <685e5546-27e7-4c01-a08e-3946f5b05270_at_s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com>



On Jun 25, 11:13 am, John Hurley <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 1:19 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > Be sure and take to heart admonitions about trusting scripts from the
> > internet, or even support or the documentation.
>
> > I used to collect scripts and drag them around with me, but eventually
> > that became too much useless work to keep them updated, and too many
> > turned out to be based on myths and legends.  Nowadays, if there are
> > any problems I focus on them specifically, the monitoring is the least
> > of it, dbconsole is good enough for the usual suspects.
>
> I don't recommend it especially and we don't work this way here ...
> but one could do way worse if starting from scratch and "absolutely
> convinced" that one did want basic admin monitoring scripts that were
> not related/from OEM by looking at the Health Check stuff available
> from the Toad DBA module.
>
> It is pretty configurable and you can leave out and not run as many of
> them as don't make sense.  Of course the Toad DBA module is not free.

yeah, I can't really see you recommending hit rates: http://toadsoft.com/DBA/DBR02.jpg :-O

jg

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