Re: BMC Patrol vs. Quest I/Watch

I have no clue about BMC Patrol...Few weeks back I was comparing OEM ,Quest Iwatch and Embarcedaro Paerformance Center.(We had a feeling that
BMC product was too expensive for us...)

Quest product looked very complex , and very non-intutive....Also if I remember
correctly there was a need a to install a listner on the actual server to be
monitored., and we didnt want to do that.

I personally liked Embarcedaro performance center.It has the dream architecture I wanted.But then it had few rigid features and was not easily extendable...
Still it was better than anything I have seen ,and was very intutive and damn
cheap too....

OEM. The agent which reside in the database server (8.0.5) have a memory leak... Not sure what to do with it...It was never able to alert me correctly on the database problems and seemed very expensive...

fornewsgroups_at_vikas.mailshell.com (Vikas Agnihotri) wrote in message news:<902027f8.0107101808.11e7f3d2_at_posting.google.com>...
> We are currently in trying to decide between Quest I/Watch and BMC
> Patrol to pro-actively monitor our production databases, generate
> alerts, pages, enable drill-down to offensive SQL, locking sessions,
> etc. The usual stuff.
>
> Both BMC Patrol's Oracle Availability Suite and Quest's I/Watch,
> Spotlight and SQL Vision look pretty good.
>
> Any pros/cons? If anyone out there has taken the plunge with one of
> these, what was the deciding factor? How is it working out?
>
> In general, who is the market leader in 24x7 database monitoring
> tools? Does anyone know which is the software of choice for some of
> the most mission-critical, 24x7, 99.9999% uptime large enterprise
> databases out there?
>
> Thanks
Received on Wed Jul 11 2001 - 08:31:37 CDT