RE: Database monitoring tools
- From: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:38:26 -0500
I regret to say it, but Mamba as a free monitoring tool is dead. It
now comes with a hefty rope attached for "remote DBA services". As for
other monitoring tools, we use OEM's performance manager and a home
grown Pro*C program. It has server well over the years & continues to
do so. Also if your good at C try doing a monitoring tool in PHP (looks
somewhat like & behaves somewhat like C, but with a WEB interface). You
could also use HTML DB if you've got it setup. My situation was that
damanagement wanted more "information" on what the DB's were doing, but
they also did not want to spend any money and did not want anyone to be
able to cause potential problems. Namely the tool had to be READ ONLY.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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From: Leonard, George [mailto:GLeonard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:14 AM
To: toni_belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Database monitoring tools
Statspak viewer (http://www.statsviewer.narod.ru/) has some graphic
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ays that hook into the V$ views,
There was also a web based tool called Mamba
George
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] On Behalf Of Antonio Belloni
Sent: 25 November 2004 19:47 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Database monitoring tools
Hi list,
We=3DB4ve been , for several years , monitoring and
administering our Oracle databases with custom-made
SQL scripts.=3D20
Using those scripts we are able to proactively avoid
possible problems and everything works fine ,
performance is good , no one is complaining.
But , I don=3DB4t know why (maybe to show some nice hit
ratios graphs to CIO) , management decided that we
need a GUI tool to monitor our databases. I tried to
deceive him from the idea , because we are a small
shop (+- 10 instances , 50 Gb the largest one) and
such tools are expensive , etc. But all my arguments
were not sufficient to change his mind.
So , we are evaluating GUI tools and we=3DB4ve already
looked at:
- BMC Patrol
- Quest Central
- Embarcadero=3D20
- OEM (with diagnostic , performance and change
management packs)
Funny , now management agrees with me and said that
all they are expensive tools.
So , I wish to know what you guys are using to monitor
and administer your databases , if there is
open-source monitoring tools (I=3DB4ve tested one called
VROOM but , in my opinion , it su**s) and what you
think about such tools. Maybe , with other points of
view I can make him (the manager) to decide to keep
using our scripts or dig in the pocket and buy the
necessary tools.
Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance.
Regards,
Antonio Belloni
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