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RE: BMC Patrol

From: Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:25:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005684CC.20030312142520@fatcity.com>


I remember eons ago when I was running Patrol training in Oz for BMC that it averaged something like about 5% or so. Depended on how many things you were monitoring and what the levels were set at IIRC. But that's quite dated now so I'd respect others figures more.

Pete
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Barnett
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:45 PM
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We are in the process of implementing BMC Patrol for monitoring our databases. This is a good thing since we have hundreds of database across several states. Monitoring from a single location with one tool makes sense.

However, the question has arisen about the actual load that Patrol will put on the databases. To read Patrol's data, there are words such as, 'negligible' or 'minimal' but they offer no solid metrics. In the not too distant past, BMC's Perform and Predict product literally consumed all of the memory on our database machines and ground them to a halt. It took several weeks before BMC was able to correctly diagnose the problem and come up with a fix. Rather than repeat this experience I would like to hear from others using Patrol.

If anyone has any hands on experience with performance problems resulting from implementing the Patrol KMs for Oracle, SQL Server or Sybase, I would appreciate hearing about them.

Thanks,



Pete Barnett
Lead Database Administrator
The Regence Group
pnbarne_at_regence.com

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