Re: database monitoring tools - what is your short list of requirements?

> Simple Customization - DBAs know sql and pl/sql. Have the ability to add
> custom monitoring/alerts using the language of the database...not tcl,
> not perl (sorry Jared), not java. It would be handy to set alerting
> thresholds based on return values (<10, 10 - 100, 101 - 1000, >1000).

Interesting -- I don't think I'd like to rely solely on a product to monitor
itself.  If it should fail, so would the monitor and any notification I
would expect from it.

Perl, OTOH, can be installed as part of the Oracle software.  And it was
surprisingly easy to make my script platform agnostic, even with regard to
filesystems.

Simplicity and stability are two qualities I should have mentioned in a
monitoring tool.

My $.02,
Rich


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