Re: Comparing Oracle Monitoring Tools

    While there are many tools valid tools which I have not personally used, I can say that oem2..2 is reasonably solid. It can take a bit of tcl knowledge to customize - but the email/page alters for event thresholds are nice - especially when you have db mounts on nt/openVMS/Solaris/SCOopen/ and now Linux . I have this mismash but am only monitoring the NT/openVMS boxes now ( don;t laugh - I know 'open' is no different than naming my kid President - just a name).

    I am happy with the features with OEM such as space monitoring of devices, extent limits, tablespaces. I especially enjoy the autonotify of an up/down event when my system folks bounce a box and I'm in the dark about the incident on Monday morning. ( It happens. )

    I am working now at bringing the automodify to ALL platforms - the 8.1.7 agent is required for full functionality and we're getting there.

I'm sure there are other good packages - but OEM has been reasonable to use and relatively stable. I would not use it to automate my HOTS - but I do use it to monitor my HOTS completion and whine if something did not go as planned. Not too bad - but I don't write the check from my own pocket.

I am the young turk in my group - so be advised. Old hands may have a different take. In my shop, there is a lot of utility code left around from version 6+ when certain lovely tools were not available. However - I do like the graphic interface and have yet to find too much that didn't already exist n OEM. Like I said - a little tcl code and almost anything works ok.

Passing perl on all your boxes as the local utility engine is also not a bad option - but I'm still working on this one.

jds

theo.verbinnen_at_mail.be wrote:

> dear all,
>
> i was wondering if any of you are aware of the possible existance of
> comparative studies of Oracle Monitoring Tools such as Oracle
> Enterprise Mnagare, Patrol BMC, Toad etc....
>
> Your feedback is highly appreciated
>
> Thanks.
Received on Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:09:50 CST