Re: OEM justification -oem Poll

On 3/26/07, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Well, speaking as a thoroughly biased software vendor whose product is
often compared to certain pieces of Grid Control, I have spent a fair bit of
time looking at Grid Control and working with customers who use Grid
Control, here's my .02:

- Grid Control is good at what it is free for (basic monitoring).  Nice
graphs, useful pictures, good alerting, well done Oracle.




My understanding was that the monitoring was free - and indeed that custom
metric collection is free as well, but that alerting required the
diagnostics pack for mad reasons that I do not understand. From the
description of the pack bold type mine.


Oracle Diagnostics Pack for database offers a complete, cost-effective, and
easy to use solution for managing the performance of Oracle Database
environments by providing unique functionality such as automatic
identification of performance bottlenecks, guided problem resolution, and
comprehensive system monitoring.

Performance Monitoring (Database and Host)
ADDM (Automated Database Diagnostic Monitor)
Automatic Workload Repository
*Event Notifications: Notification Methods, Rules and Schedules *
*Event history/metric history (Database and Host)*


  - Blackouts



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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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