RE: 3rd Party Database health check

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:12:41 +0000
Message-Id: <s0211a0f.005@bristol21.bristol.ac>

Sorry I should have been more clear, I intended to mean paying 3rd party co=
nsultants to come in and do a manual health check of ones databases. The id=
ea is good or rather not bad, it helps give damagement some outside confide=
nce in the DBA team a bit like a network security check. On the other hand =
if you can say that everything is satisfactorily backed up without actually=

seeing any proof that the backups worked....=20 =20

--=20

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

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From: thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us Sent: 04 February 2004 15:51
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org; thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us Subject: RE: 3rd Party Database health check

We just looked at Tivoli Monitoring for Oracle. The sales presentation sounded good. But when we started looking at what exactly they could monitor "out of the box", we rejected everything except for database up/down, listener up/down and archive directory getting full. It had a bunch of Oracle internal things it could monitor (like tablespace filling up, user process monitoring etc, but we just didn't want to implement a monster, and some other stuff just didn't make any sense (like BCHR). And we thought that it would be sending us way too many emails or pages to turn anything else on.

Just my 2 cents.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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

From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:40 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: 3rd Party Database health check

Does anyone have any experience of these, what sort of things got looked at and what stuff didn't get looked at? We have had 2 that seemed to be somewhat useless and annoying, I am not sure that this is because they are useless and annoying or if we were just unlucky. I don't mind folk checking that we backup our databases for example, but passing our backup strategy without seeing whether it worked or not doesn't inspire confidence

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission
+44 117 975 7805

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