Re: Quest monitoring vs OEM

Sinardy,

If possible, try to go for a tool that can measure end-to-end in your
clients application environment.

If you use OEM for other monitoring, that would be a point in its favor,
just one tool to manage, maintain, etc.

Try to dampen your boss' enthusiasm. Managers usually get weak in the knees
when shown GUI products. But consider how much hassle these products can be
to: select (you are just beginning the journey), purchase (your manager will
want you to provide the justification, and that can come back to haunt you),
install, configure across all your servers, then maintain,
repurchase/relicense for future upgrades, etc. At the salesman's pitch it
can sound easy and glorious, but over the long haul can take a lot of your
time that could be productively spent elsewhere.

Dennis Williams

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