OCM's Razor (WAS: Metalink Fiasco)
- From: "Rich Jesse" <rjoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:16:00 -0600 (CST)
Hey Jared,
> As for connecting to the internet, someone will have to explain
> to me why this is such an issue. The data sent is innocuous AFAIK.
Do you need to prove that to an auditor? I don't yet, but I'm curious...
> How is is different that databases that email you an alert when
> an alert log error is found? Or using UTL_SMTP to send email
> from the database?
Our email is internal. The security is setup to mitigate risk of external
emails being sent should there be a breach. We're not (easily?) able to do
that for outgoing http/ftp/rsync/etc. protocols.
Bandwidth is another concern, albeit probably not much of one. Downgrade
that one to "unknown/untested".
My main concern that there didn't seem to be much in the way of detailed
documentation on OCM's internals. It's a trust issue for me. And, frankly,
given my experience with Oracle Corp's tools, that trust has not yet been
earned. (they're trying real hard though with APEX, IMHO!)
I also have not been shown any value for what seems to be a substantial
amount of investigation and work on my end. We don't have many Oracle DBs.
It just doesn't make good fiscal sense to me.
Thoughts?
Rich
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