Re: Quest monitoring vs OEM

Sinardy,

You should also look at Ignite for Oracle by Confio during your evaluation.

We've been using it for over a year and are really happy with the product
and results.  It's saved us a tremendous amount of time and still amazes me how 
it can so 
easily find exacatly what is causing the slowness to the system and the 
performance issues, either right at the time or you can go back and look at 
prior data
for issues in the past.  And the reports and screen shots are great for showing 
management 
and development staff  your findings.  The utility  focuses on wait events and  
very  little overhead on the monitored instances.

It's a great product.  www.confio.com 



>>> "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> 03/22/07 10:45 AM >>>
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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