RE: DBA tools advice needed

Hi Andrey,

Take a look at Quest's "Spotlight on Oracle", formerly known as "Instance Monitor", at http://www.quest.com, for your monitoring. It's relatively inexpensive (you'll need to talk to a salesman for $$$ info), and it has a plethora of drill downs and alarms and advice that you can use to find out what's wrong.

Although, now that I've taken the O8i Perf Tuning class, I can more easily identify what advice from all the monitoring tools to ignore... ;D

Also, you might want to take a look at TOAD while you're at Quest. Very cool, dirt cheap, and supposedly TOAD DBA will be even cooler...

Good luck!

Rich Jesse                          System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com             QTI -- Sussex, WI USA

-----Original Message-----

From: Andrey Bronfin [mailto:bronfin_at_VisualTop.com] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 05:47
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: DBA tools advice needed

Dear DBAs !

I'm desperately looking for a simple tool ( either Freeware or to purchase ) to administer / monitor / diagnose a remote Database . I'm currently investigating the Oracle Enterprise manager , and , to be honest , i don't like it too much . ( But probably i just haven't explored all of it's power yet ) .
Which tools are U guys using ? Do U like them ? Please drop me a line .

Many thanks in advance .

Andrey Bronfin
VisualTop.com  

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