Re: BMC Patrol vs. Quest I/Watch

I have used both. Our Company decided upon Patrol, but I personally don't like it. Either the group who configures it doesn't have a clue or the product just doesn't work well. It's SQL is generally the most painful code in the system, and rarely gives useful information. As for quest, it worked well in the eval stage,but we never really put it to a test in production. Patrol does do a good job watching for alerts though, and it has been fairly reliable as far as running. OEM was never dependable in that front.

QUEST) Looked good, but not tested in Prod. OEM) Good info, couldn't keep it running though. Patrol) Very reliable, not very useful info.

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Robert Fazio
Senior Technical Analyst
dbabob_at_yahoo.com

"Vikas Agnihotri" <fornewsgroups_at_vikas.mailshell.com> wrote in message
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> 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