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Recommendations sought for good RAC monitoring tool

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emdpro...@hotmail.com

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Jul 31, 2007, 4:11:47 PM7/31/07
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Dear Group,

Our organization is starting the process to implementing RAC on Oracle
on Linux. Could somebody suggests a good DBA tool which is best for
managing RAC, in addition to Oracle's enterprise manager?

Thanks

EdStevens

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Jul 31, 2007, 4:30:48 PM7/31/07
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Just out of curiosity, why not OEM? It does everything you need, it
is better integrated with the db than any third party product, and you
can't beat the cost.

I'm always amazed at people wanting to spend 10's of 1000's of dollars
on a solution that Oracle provides for free with the database. That's
a lot of money for what is, at best, a different set of eye candy.

sybr...@hccnet.nl

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Jul 31, 2007, 5:12:02 PM7/31/07
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In addition to OEM? So what's missing in OEM?


--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

DA Morgan

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Jul 31, 2007, 7:00:09 PM7/31/07
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Such a beast does not exist.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damo...@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Avadhani

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Jul 31, 2007, 9:30:23 PM7/31/07
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OEM or Oracle Grid Control is really good tool to monitor. In addition
to that if you configure OSWatcher ( Oracle Supplied Shell scripts )
and its GUI available in metalink. OSWatcher does more at OS Level
gathering information of I/O RAM and keeps historical info too as
specified.
In addition to this if we use AWR or Statspack I dont see any tool can
do beyond this.

Regards
Avadhani.

emdpro...@hotmail.com

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Aug 1, 2007, 8:52:40 AM8/1/07
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Thanks for all your advice.

Did somebody here ever used Quest Spotlight? Does it provide anything
that OEM does not? Is it worth the money?

Thanks again


DA Morgan

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Aug 1, 2007, 9:32:40 AM8/1/07
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Yes. No. No.

EdStevens

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Aug 1, 2007, 11:00:42 AM8/1/07
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I'm looking at it as I type. My associate recommended it and got it
in the purchase cycle before I got here. Put it on a 32-inch flat
panel on the wall of our office.

If you want to sit and watch flashing lights all day, trying to
respond to every passing trivial 'performance issue', and spend big
bucks for the privilege, knock yourself out. I continue to use OEM.

Richard Piasecki

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Aug 3, 2007, 4:26:02 AM8/3/07
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I agree. It's little more than eye-candy.
The last company I worked for had it. I never used it much and never saw much need to.

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