RE: 3rd Party Tools???
I have never been a fan of third party products because I have no control over what they do and I am further separated from what the system is doing. Where I am at we have our own home grown monitoring software. One downside to this is BMC might monitor stuff we have not thought of. Then again we might monitor stuff they did not think of. Do note, I am a bit of a control freak and so like to be able to make changes to my monitoring software to meet my needs. Will >===== Original Message From "Henderson, Scott" <SHenderson@purolator.com> ===== >Folks, > >We're currently looking into acquiring 3rd party tools to aid us in >performance tuning, reorganization, and administration. Could you folks >provide some feedback. The information I'm interested in is > >1) Do you feel it is necessary to look outside of Informix? >2) Do these products really provide a significant return? >3) What benefits do these tools provide. >4) Who's Good? Platinum, BMC, SQL Power Tools > >Any info you can provide would be welcome. Examples? > > >Thanks in advance, > >Scott H. ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------
William Rice wrote: > I have never been a fan of third party products because I have no > control over what they do and I am further separated from what the > system is doing. Where I am at we have our own home grown > monitoring software. One downside to this is BMC might monitor > stuff we have not thought of. Then again we might monitor stuff > they did not think of. > > Do note, I am a bit of a control freak and so like to be able to make changes > to my monitoring software to meet my needs. > All of the software that BMC provides is written in a scripting language. All of the source is provided with the product and you can modify it to your hearts content (or write anything new you may want to). > > Will > >===== Original Message From "Henderson, Scott" <SHenderson@purolator.com> > ===== > >Folks, > > > >We're currently looking into acquiring 3rd party tools to aid us in > >performance tuning, reorganization, and administration. Could you folks > >provide some feedback. The information I'm interested in is > > > >1) Do you feel it is necessary to look outside of Informix? > >2) Do these products really provide a significant return? > >3) What benefits do these tools provide. > >4) Who's Good? Platinum, BMC, SQL Power Tools > > > >Any info you can provide would be welcome. Examples? > > > > > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Scott H. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from > Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at > http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail > account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------