RE: OEMGC and Standard Edition?

  • From: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "jkstill@xxxxxxxxx" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, Gus Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx>, oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:35:22 -0700

Very true Jared, my scripts are configured very similarly to yours - I only get 
alerted when there is a problem.  Informational and warning messages only go to 
email while critical alerts go to email + SMS to the cell phone of the DBA 
on-call - both email & SMS destinations are easily configurable via forwarding 
rules on a centralized public folder in MS Exchange where all the scripts send 
their output.

I also get a handful of informational scripts daily for things like backups 
that require an active check to confirm they ran successfully rather than only 
an alert upon failure, which could fail to alert us if there is a failure with 
the monitoring script itself.

Gus, it sounds like maybe you got stuck with some poorly designed scripts, but 
you shouldn't knock them all because of that.  I've heard many complaints from 
people using Grid Control that they get overwhelmed with the out of the box 
alerts as well, so whether you use Grid Control or custom scripts, or some 
other 3rd party monitoring tool, some work is going to be needed to configure 
the alerts, adjust thresholds, troubleshoot issues, etc.  With custom scripts 
you have maximum flexibility - that's the main reason I prefer them.  I also 
find them to be more reliable, but that depends on who is doing your scripting.

Regards,
Brandon

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Jared Still

 IMO there some elements of using monitoring scripts that must be done 
correctly to be useful.


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