RE: Database Control vs. Grid Control

Thanks John, good point. However, I prefer to rely on good ol' trusty shell scripts for my up/down & log monitoring, and in my case we also have HP OpenView monitoring everything, plus it is a HA cluster so if GC went down on one node it would automatically failover to another one (assuming I could get that configured to work properly, which may not be a safe assumption).

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of John P Weatherman

A bigger concern for me is having GC doing the monitoring for things like "Database Down", "Server Down", etc. If the server does crash, and the monitor is on the same server, no notifications can be sent out. By having another server, you can home-brew a monitor for GC while GC monitors everything else.

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