RE: BMC Patrol DBXray / CA Unicenter

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:55:01 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003D5E71.20011205092522@fatcity.com>

Lisa

I didn't get the opportunity to work with BMC, but was somewhat involved in the selection process for enterprise monitoring tools a couple of jobs ago.

BMC Patrol ( or whatever it may be called now ) was very impressive.

I had lots of questions, and everything I asked, it was already setup to do. It will handle various databases, and will also monitor the OS.

Wanna keep an eye on the page scan rate on Solaris? They already have it if you want it. If you think of something it can't do, they have a scripting language to build it yourself. ( too bad it wasn't perl )

It was the most capable tool I've seen. If others with experience recommend it
it would be a candidate for closer scrutiny.

Bring a lot of cash though if you plan to use it.

Jared

                                                                                       
                             
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Ideally, we'd like to find a common tool to monitor Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server databases running on both NT and Unix platforms. There are separate groups that are responsible for NT support and Unix support. If we could all use the same tool, we'd be delighted, but if not, then one tool for all databases would be our next choice.

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[mailto:Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Lisa,

What are you trying to monitor - just Oracle databases, the OS as well (if so which OS) and anything else?

We use the Watchdog functionality (part of CA Unicenter) to monitor our VMS servers (where we don't run Oracle) and it good for that.

It depends on what you are trying to achieve.

HTH,
Bruce Reardon

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Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2001 7:25

Hi -

Does anyone have experience with either of these products? I'm interested in ease of installation, ease of use, and quality of support. I realize they are both pricey, but they both seem to do a lot. I've been asked to look at alternatives (I'm sure the cost will be prohibitive, but we'll see).

Also if you know of any comparable tools, I'm very interested to hear about them.

Thanks much -
Lisa
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