RE: AWR Viewer

  • From: Job Miller <jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, J.Brock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:46:11 -0700 (PDT)

have you ever clicked the "(+)" sign at the bottom of home page in grid control?
 
It turns on link annotation, that shows you exactly what each link *may* 
require in terms of packs to use.  I say may because it shows many different 
packs for each link usually, because depending on the tab/link, there may be 
more than one pack that provides that functionality for that target.  
 
If you disable the packs in the setup, those links that require licensing go 
away.  As someone mentioned earlier, disable DIAG/TUNING and the Performance 
Tab goes away.
 
You can click on the link annotation, and it will launch built in help that 
explains that "DC" means "Database Configuration", and it describes in a 
paragraph for each pack what functionality that pack provides.
 
For example, if you see a metric for a host that is a hyperlink, that hyperlink 
is only enabled because you licensed one of the following things (DD, AD, 
SM...)  Database Diagnostics (if it is a DB Server), AS Diagnostics (if it is 
an App Server), or System Monitoring for Hosts (if it is just a host you are 
monitoring).
 
Any of those packs on that target will enable the historical collection of a 
particular metric related to that host.  Without that pack, you will just have 
the current metric.
 
Grid control is still very useful without packs for centralized db admin via a 
"GUI".  It prevents the need for 30 different standalone java containers on a 
single server because you have 30 databases running on it all with DB Console 
turned on..  
Lots of folks are still holding on to the 9i thick java client for centralized 
admin because they can't/won't/don't want to install GC somewhere.
 
Job
 
 
 


--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Jackie Brock <J.Brock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jackie Brock <J.Brock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: AWR Viewer
To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 2:01 PM

Oracle really does need to provide a licensing FAQ and tutorial...
perhaps even a training course!  It's amazing how hard it is to get
specific information about what's covered and what's not.

I think the difficulty here may lie with the fact that yes, you can
install and run grid control without the diagnostics packs (et al), but
you can't do much with it.  I believe that there is something in the
install documentation for OEM that discusses whether grid control is
included or not - my recollection is that grid control is included with
the database, but not useful without the packs.
 
-Jackie
 
Jackie D. Brock
Database Specialist - Systems Evaluation
CableLabs(r)
858 Coal Creek Circle
Louisville, CO 80027
Email: j.brock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
303-661-3347
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