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Monitoring tools advice [message #64149]

Wed, 22 December 2004 06:11

zinedunc
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Registered: December 2004

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Hi all,

I'm looking into the possibility of buying (as I doubt there's any good free options) an Oracle Monitoring tool.

Has anyone got any particular recommendations - good or bad? I know a little about Spotlight, but not much else.

FYI - we're using 8.1.6 (upgrading to 9.2 in the near future)

Thanks in advance.

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zinedunc

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Re: Monitoring tools advice [message #64151 is a reply to message #64149]

Wed, 22 December 2004 06:30

Mahesh Rajendran
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Best option is to implement OEM.
And you know it is a little painful.
ONce it is set properly you will love it.
Sometime back we as a team were managing around 120 databases ( around the globe, different versions) with OEM.

This URL would discuss about a few featured tools.
For a simple environment, you can go for a much simpler tool.

http://orafaq.com/tools/index.htm#DBA

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Re: Monitoring tools advice [message #64152 is a reply to message #64151]

Wed, 22 December 2004 06:39

zinedunc
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Registered: December 2004

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Thanks for the tip.

Will review the tools on there and try to talk the bosses into giving me the resources for OEM.

Can OEM trigger notifications - email, SMS etc?

Regards

Duncan

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Re: Monitoring tools advice [message #64153 is a reply to message #64152]

Wed, 22 December 2004 07:09

Mahesh Rajendran
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OEM can email.
SMS? i am not sure.
My pager can send/receive emails. It works good.
It beleive, it depends on your requirement.
If you clearly know what you are looking into and if they are fairly simple ( space quota, checking alert_logs, backup failure notices etc etc) you can just use simpler scripting languages and create your own monitoring system ( if you can afford time).
a combination of unix shell,awk,perl is working cool for me. I run my own checks , and accordingly mail / page myself or other users and users are managed manually by different mailinglists.

Actually when effectively used along with tools like freshwater sitescope (Now acquired by mercury) you can even monitor individual hits/individual url stats for website, your hardware etc etc.

Bigbrother is another network monitoring tool ( used to be FREE but now acquired by Quest).

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Re: Monitoring tools advice [message #64156 is a reply to message #64153]

Wed, 22 December 2004 23:12

zinedunc
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Thanks for your time and advice Mahesh.

We do have some shell scripting set up, but probably not enough....

If I'm honest, I was probably looking for the easy way out, but think I need to invest some time installing OEM.

Thanks again

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Re: Monitoring tools advice [message #64280 is a reply to message #64149]

Sun, 09 January 2005 12:57

Kees Barneveld
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Registered: January 2005

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Oraspy
see for info www.dbmotive.com

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