About 6 years ago, I installed BMC Patrol at our workplace for DB monitoring.
Last year we began uninstalling it as we migrated/upgraded databases to newer releases. Patrol was
a bit late to keep up with all new features.
This year we stopped running Patrol on almost all servers for DB monitoring (a few are still
running it as I have not found time to get to them).
>From all those 60-100 "database parameters" Patrol monitored, we had found about 10 or so to be of
any help to the DBA with Oracle 7 and 8, mainly.
Now we are deploying our own scripts to monitor just a few parameters we think are critical to
each database: archived and dump directory usage, listener status, tablespace usage, interested
ORA errors in alert log etc.
Cheers!
- Kirti
- "Mercadante, Thomas F" <thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us> wrote:
> 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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