Re: Quest monitoring vs OEM

Sinardy,

You should also look at Ignite for Oracle by Confio during your evaluation.

We've been using it for over a year and are really happy with the product and results. It's saved us a tremendous amount of time and still amazes me how it can so easily find exacatly what is causing the slowness to the system and the performance issues, either right at the time or you can go back and look at prior data for issues in the past. And the reports and screen shots are great for showing management and development staff your findings. The utility focuses on wait events and very little overhead on the monitored instances.

It's a great product. www.confio.com

>>> "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> 03/22/07 10:45 AM >>>
Sinardy,

If possible, try to go for a tool that can measure end-to-end in your clients application environment.

If you use OEM for other monitoring, that would be a point in its favor, just one tool to manage, maintain, etc.

Try to dampen your boss' enthusiasm. Managers usually get weak in the knees when shown GUI products. But consider how much hassle these products can be to: select (you are just beginning the journey), purchase (your manager will want you to provide the justification, and that can come back to haunt you), install, configure across all your servers, then maintain, repurchase/relicense for future upgrades, etc. At the salesman's pitch it can sound easy and glorious, but over the long haul can take a lot of your time that could be productively spent elsewhere.

Dennis Williams

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