RE: AWR Viewer

I suppose semantically that's correct, though somewhat like me claiming that 
Oracle is free because I can download it for free, I just need to license it 
when I run it.  Diagnostic pack is considered a component of Grid Control - the 
fact that you need to license it for access to that data regardless of whether 
you use it through Grid Control is a game of licensing twister (probably 
intended to jack up revenues for OEMGC from an optics perspective).

Other packs, like provisioning pack, really have no capability without OEM - 
only the basic monitoring functionality of OEMGC is free, though the fact that 
it enables everything by default when you install it is a recipe for a very 
unpleasant audit at some point in the future.

Thanks,
Matt

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Allen, Brandon
Sent: Fri 10/3/2008 1:10 PM
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Subject: RE: AWR Viewer
 
Grid Control is FREE.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my
understanding is that Grid Control is free as long as your targets are
licensed.  You only have to pay extra for management packs, but those
are licensed for the target databases regardless of whether or not you
use Grid Control to interface with them.  For example with AWR, you have
to buy a Diagnostics Pack license if you want to query the AWR
views/tables, run the AWR procedures/scripts, etc. regardless of whether
or not you use DB Control or Grid Control.

 

Regards,

Brandon

 

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LS Cheng



 

Well Grid Control is probably the most expensive option....

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