Re: Heads Up on Grid Control 10.2

We did a limited demo provisioning pack, patching a 9i database.

Though the database patch I did went smoothly, I would have to see something more convincing than that single demo.

There have been too many patch failures in my past.

We also created a database clone. That is fairly simple though when compared to patching.

Provisioning has other features (bare metal installs, OS and Oracle) but we didn't see any of that.

I might add that this is GC 10gR2. We were told that it works *much* better than GC 10gR1. So maybe the provisioning has been improved a bit over the previous version.

Jared

On 9/29/06, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:
>
> Did they demo the provisioning pack? We've had limited success getting
> it to work in our labs, and most of our customers have given up trying to
> get it work after a while. I'm curious what they showed in that area.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Jared Still
> *Sent:* Friday, September 29, 2006 2:13 PM
> *To:* Ron.Reidy_at_arraybiopharma.com
> *Cc:* Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us; niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com;
> Christian Antognini; oracle-l
> *Subject:* Re: Heads Up on Grid Control 10.2
>
> The GC workshop was fairly successful.
>
> I actually liked GC, which is quite different from my experiences with
> OEM.
>
> We didn't install it, just learned some of the features and how to use it.
>
> If you can spend the $$ on the diagnostics pack, it appeared it would
> be a worthwhile purchase. The client makes it fairly easy to drill down
> on problem SQL (which is usually the problem, right?), see the execution
> plan, run the SQL profiler (if you bought the $$ SQL tuning pack) and
> play what-if with the SQL.
>
> There was an embarrassing moment for the instructor though, when
> an error popped up trying to show one of the features. A problematic
> feature apparently, as she had just finished warning us about some
> things occasionally causing trouble. oops.
>
> A call to the data center in Austin got it fixed. The feature in question
> involves running a copy of the Oracle Intelligent Agent in 'beacon'
> mode on a remote PC. The agent will periodically replay a transaction
> (Web based, or C/S based), and allow you to do end-to-end analysis
> on the latencies of the transaction. Very nice feature, worthy of further
> investigation.
>
> Sorry, I did not get the opportunity to ask about the questions raised in
> Oracle-L,
> the class was overbooked, we all used our own notebooks, and the tech
> folks were kept quite busy.
>
> I did ask explicity questions about licensing however. If you are
> licensed
> to use Oracle, you are licensed to use GC. This includes Oracle
> Application
> Server, as a runtime license only, as well as the database, also runtime.
>
> You will need to pay for $$ for the extra packs.
>
> Diagnostic and SQL Tuning packs - Diag a prereq for the SQL pack.
> Provisioning Pack
> Change Mgt Pack
>
> Those are all extra $$, as well as some of the plugins. SQL Server, DB2,
> ...
>
> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
>

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l