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From: Geoffrey Bray <gbray1@my-deja.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools
Subject: Re: BMC tools
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:44:40 GMT
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Depends on what you want.  If you want an availability tool then Patrol
is it.  If you want performance/tuning you'd probably be better off with
Precise SQL or something like it.  If you do go with Patrol you'd better
be very careful and make sure the person setting it up know what s/he is
doing.  Often out of the box everything is turned on and it runs a bunch
of jobs every 10 seconds and will suck up resources on a box like you
wouldn't believe.  I would also REQUIRE that BMC let you try it for
several months before you buy it.  Lots of people around using Patrol
for shelfware.  Patrol, etc. hits the v$ tables and so it impacts db
performance vs. Precise which monitors the SGA via UNIX.

Geoffrey Bray
Tandy Corp.


In article <01bf8523$e127e160$5f58dea1@cbcgren028820>,
  "Scott Harden" <hardens@schneider.com> wrote:
> Is anyone out there using BMC's tools against Oracle.  Our UNIX admins
are
> looking at Patrol and they want to make it a package deal with
Oracle's
> Knowledge Module, RE-ORG, etc.
>
> I would appreciate feedback on all first hand experience with BMC, and
if
> you have other tools you would recommend instead of BMC's.
>
> You can mail replies to hardens@schneider.com as well.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Scott Harden
>


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