[ale] OT: Oracle Monitoring Tools

[Jeff Lightner]

Of course some people doing monitoring are not DBAs self respecting or
otherwise.  In many organizations the monitors are required by
management and managed by System Admins.

 

Here we do Nagios monitoring from a Management standpoint but it's
fairly minimal.  Just check whether tnsping to the instance works from
another server, whether the LSRN and PMON are up and whether concurrent
manager is running.   The DBAs here (presumably self respecting - I've
never asked) of course have additional monitoring they've configured.

 

So the question becomes how deeply are you trying to "monitor" the DB?

 

In other environments I've used Patrol which has prebuilt probes for
Oracle and other products.   However it is not cheap either.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Sid
To: ale at ale.org
Lane
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:03 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Oracle Monitoring Tools

 

"license for the monitoring package of EM is a bit steep"

it's also a steaming piece of poo - no self respecting DBA uses it.
there is NO substitute for knowing your data dictionary, v$ views, etc. 

I've written my own stuff with PERL (/DBI), etc.

if you want something "canned" I'm pretty sure Big Brother has some
Oracle plugins but I don't know how robust they are though it's pretty
easy to write your own modules and hook them in. 

On 8/8/06, Ryan Fish <FishR at bellsouth.net> wrote:

Do any of you know of any cheap/free monitoring tools for Oracle?  The
license for the monitoring package of EM is a bit steep so I'm looking
for alternatives if they exist.

 

Thank you.

-Ryan

 

I tried sending this same message earlier but it never hit the list for
some reason...


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