I second that. If you push all your logs in it, you can correlate problems using multiple logfiles. if time is synchronised among the servers, you can even do multiple-machine correlation. frits On May 6, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Matthew Zito wrote: > > Just one more thing I'll throw in there - for those folks who have problems > watching lots of log files, generated emails, etc., I highly encourage them > to look into Splunk (http://www.splunk.com) - it's a commercial tool with a > free edition that basically aggregates all your logs, events, trace files, > etc. and makes them available for search and analysis. It takes a little > tweaking to make it work right, but it's really useful for digging through > the loads of event data that gets created in a normal IT environment. > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matthew Zito > Chief Scientist > GridApp Systems > P: 646-452-4090 > mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gridapp.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Gus Spier > Sent: Wed 5/5/2010 10:05 PM > To: Jared Still > Cc: oracle-l > Subject: Re: OEMGC and Standard Edition? > > My thanks to all for the input. > > Give us another couple of months and we'll likely see the pendulum swing the > other way as we find that "point of balance" between custom scripts and OEM. > > V/R, > > Gus >