What information to gather

  • From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l-freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:12:41 -0300

I know this *might* be a bit of a repeated thread. However... here I go.

Due to reasons to boring to get into, the company I work for is not going to
invest in a monitoring tool. However, we have a few DBs that work only as
RMAN catalogs. Servers are oversized so we can build new DBs there. I wanted
to have a central repository of information for our databases... so I was
wondering what information to take.

What I have so far:
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DB Name
Parameters (v$parameters)
archive deestination
backup status (last backup and all backup drilldown).
Performance information (I'm still working on this, either statspack or awr
reports/snapshots)
Space management (tablespaces, datafiles, autoextend, extent management,
segment space management, size, free space, etc)
User management (users, account status, etc)


There will be no real time information, so hang analysis and such will not
be possible, plus information from v$ views won't be that useful.

The idea with this is that the data will be updated in the central DB and it
will be accessed via a APEX application I'm developing (thank god for
APEX... I am a fairly good PL/SQL developer but simply refuse to write java,
so APEX gives a good alternative, if a bit slow)


thanks in advance.
Alan Bort
Oracle Certified Professional

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