Re: Database management techniques and frameworks

So your approach is to write a series of custom scripts, add them to (I assume) oracle's crontab for periodic execution. Do you have one single machine (or pair of machines) that monitor remote databases? Or do you install these scripts on each database server? Do you leverage dbms_jobs?  And relying on email seems kind of iffy -- what happens if you're not around to check your email? Page system? Escalation matrix in place?

Not trying to ruffle any feathers here, and certainly, I appreciate the time requirements in fully answering a question as broad as the one I submitted, but I would like to probe further into various strategies. The whole "run scripts to check, install statspack, etc." approach seems both highly unscalable and leaves much to the whim of the individual DBA. So what, you've installed statspack? Do you use it regularly? Is this a manual review, or is some system in place to monitor changes? How easy is it to deploy this framework?

(Does anyone here use Oracle's SNMP agents for monitoring? I've leveraged these -- along with a home-grown SNMP NMS (in Perl) -- to some degree at a multiple database site to good effect.)

Are there any 'design patterns for databases' around? Should we come up with some?

(I'll post my own notes on the topic of management in a future post -- still compiling.)

Adam

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Re: Database management techniques and frameworks

We have about 20-25 instances here. Nearly all on SUN. I dont touch the ones on windows. I also have development responsibilities, so I dont have time for a checklist.

you need to automate tasks. You cant spend your time reading the alert log. you should poll it and get an email when something pops up. Same with chained rows, tablespace sizes, etc... Write scripts for this and send your self emails.

Have statspack snapshots run daily.

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> From: AdamDonahue_at_maximus.com
> Date: 2003/12/05 Fri PM 01:49:30 EST
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: Database management techniques and frameworks
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> Folks,
>
> I thought it'd be interesting to take a survey on what techniques and
> frameworks DBA's on this list use to manage their Oracle databases. I
> imagine that some of us manage only a single database and instance, but
in
> those configurations where there are many instances, multiple databases,

> different platforms/versions, etc., what are some of the strategies for
> management in place? What daily tasks do you perform, and how do you
> organize them? How do you manage user requests (individually or as part

> of a larger environment)? How do you handle jobs? Organization
> techniques? Naming standards? User/application deployment framework,
> etc., etc.?
>
> (Obviously we could write a book about this -- there's an idea! -- but
> summaries and pointers would be interesting. Perhaps we can come up
with
> a best practices document and associated framework for Oracle database
> management.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
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