Re: Consultants - FREE Zero Impact Sql & Service Level Monitor

From: DNP <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com>
Date: 2000/05/25
Message-ID: <392C73BB.6A3D_at_btinternet.com>#1/1


What DoD security criteria have systems that incorporate this product been approved at?

Orange Book? Red Book? European Security requirements?

What companies have used it?

Where can we see some referrals from named people in named companies?

Have you got anyone who can be contacted to give more detailed and rounded appraisals of your product?

How many people have been able to tune their database better because of it?

How much faster did they make their systems run?

Have you got any benchmarks figures (or even TPC figures) from installations before and after the installation and use of your product?

(Let's not forget that products like this stand on the shoulders of Oracle RDBMS programmers and 3rd party Application Developers alike).

Why not design a truly innovative A.I. / Expert based / Neural network reasoning system instead? That would get my respect.

Last but not least; you choose to market this product to Usenet newsgroups. Not the pages of a magazine. So I think you should accordingly bring some 'real facts' to the discussion.

Marketing doesn't convince people that actually have to use products day in and day out.

David P. OCP (DBA) MCP (TCP/IP)

Glasgow, Scotland.


Randy Reiter wrote:
>
> The Zero Impact Sql Monitor product line is being used by several of the
> most security conscious firms in the world (eCommerce, Wall Street, banks,
> manufacturing, telecommunications, utilities, etc. firms) as well as in US
> Defense agencies. It has had to obtain at these organizations the approval
> of management, system administrators and auditors.
>
> Conclusion. The product line presents no security problems or issues.
>
> DNP <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:392BD6AE.2473_at_btinternet.com...
> > There are some serious shortcomings of this product.
> >
> > 1) The security implications of having to / allowing a Network Interface
> > to operate in promiscuous mode (to grab all packets, regardless of
> > destination).
> >
> > 2) Possibly having to change your DataLink / Physical (OSI Model)
> > network infrastructure, e.g. throw out your switch(s) and replace them
> > with hubs just to get this poor-substitute-for a-real-DBA tool to work.
> >
> > 3) Advanced Networking Option would give this package a VERY hard time
> > (i.e. it would stop it in its tracks) because packets are encrypted.
> >
> >
> > Last but not least; any monitoring package can extract performance data
> > (either by measuring response times or by looking at all the dynamic
> > performance views and so on. That's great. But that doesn't actually
> > help you tune the server does it?. To do that takes never ending
> > practice and book-studying.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > David P. OCP (DBA) MCP (TCP/IP)
> >
> > Glasgow, Scotland.
> >
> >
> >
> > =========================================================================
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Neil Pike wrote:
> > >
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > > > > !!!!!!! You must be kidding or simply you are liars !!!!!!!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ZERO-IMPACT - does anyone really believe in this absolute lie.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, SQL Power tools claims of superiority over other tools are OTT
 and not all substantiated,
> > > > > but it IS true that they are zero impact.
> > > >
> > > > Ever heard of the Heisenberg principle :-)
> > >
> > > Yes, but if you read my explanation you would understand why this
 doesn't apply. Think of it like a radar gun used
> > > by police to monitor the speed of a car. The radar gun is a monitoring
 device, but it doesn't affect the speed of
> > > the car does it? Well, not until the driver notices the policeman
 anyway..... ;-)
> > >
> > > Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd
> > > (Please reply only to newsgroups)
> > > SQL FAQ (428 entries) see
> > > forumsb.compuserve.com/gvforums/UK/default.asp?SRV=MSDevApps
 (sqlfaq.zip - L7 - SQL Public)
> > > or www.ntfaq.com/sql.html
> > > or www.sql-server.co.uk
> > > or www.mssqlserver.com/faq
Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST

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