Re: Grid Control - opinions please
- From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:29:22 -0700
Thanks Matt, much as I suspected.
On 4/5/06, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Ooook, so, I'll take a stab at this.
>
> Basically, 10gR2 Grid Control is a significantly improved product over
> R1. It still requires a very heavy agent on your databases, and it still
> only does the vast majority of its functionality on 10gR2. A lot of the
> stated functionality is little more than proof-of-concept code, and only
> going to work in a very vanilla (Read: Linux, 10gR2, RAC) environment. The
> UI is terrible, as its based on one of the Oracle applications components
> (forms? portal?), and its very geared towards you "touching" one database at
> a time.
>
> It's perfectly fine for basic monitoring, some basic performance data, and
> some basic operational mangement. Beyond that, you're going to have to look
> elsewhere.
>
> (Full disclosure: we make a software product that is often compared to
> Grid Control, though I'd argue they're very different beasts).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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>
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