RE: heavyweight OS monitoring as standard
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:14:34 -0500
Message-ID: <7ED53A68952D3B4C9540B4EFA5C76E3606223449_at_CWYMSX04.Corp.Acxiom.net>
Thanks for pointing out OSW!
We've always used tools to match the OS ("collect" for Tru64, "nmon" for AIX, a home-grown sampler of /proc for Linux), then created .csv files, built external tables off the .csv files, then loaded the data into an Oracle db for historical analysis of the stats.
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Subject: heavyweight OS monitoring as standard
I'm at Collaborate right now, and we just finished the RAC SIG bird-of-a-feather session (it's a group discussion, and was quite good). Had an interesting point come up - we were discussing troubleshooting and asked how many people ran OSW as a standard practice on their clusters. (Metalink note 301137.1) I think about half the room raised their hands.
OSW is also included in RACDDT. (Metalink note 301138.1) And there's
also a new tool from Oracle called IPD which seems to gather similar
information into a little Berkeley DB (running processes, runqueues,
etc):
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clustering/ipd_downlo
ad_homepage.html
How many people on this list install OSW as a standard practice on their database servers? Do you install some other heavy-weight monitoring tool as a standard? I always thought that most people only installed light-weight monitoring tools by default, would only install something like OSW and if there were problems since it captures so much data. But maybe this should become a standard practice for us; it would make troubleshooting machine crashes after the fact a *lot* easier.
Any thoughts?
-Jeremy
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