Re: tools for dba administration and performance monitoring:

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:55:00 -0600, Will Rosales <will.r@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >1.Is anyone using BMC Patrol Yes, we are using patrol. >2. How would you rate its installation, day to day operation, >functionality, maintenance & upgrades, vendor support? All very good. Installation is brainless, and the product has a lot of functionality right out of the box. Vendor support is excellent, and the upgrades are free (as long as you're paying your annual maintenance). >3. What are its highlights? - Easy to customize - Intuitive interface >Significant assists in admin & performance tuning? Monitors every performance factor you can think of >Realtime and historical information reporting? Yup. You can (optionally) load the history into an RDBMS and keep it as long as you want. > >4. What are its shortcomings/limitations? - No source for many of the parameters - Can't give different thresholds/paramters to different users >Resource utilization too high? Out of the box, yes. You'll have to 'throttle down' some of the monitoring that comes by default. Also be careful that your history file doesn't get too big. > >5. Character, GUI, or both interfaces? platforms for GUI? - XWindows GUI. I think there's also a client for os/2 >7. Any additional helpful comments or other sources of information? - Very scaleable (ie. it can (and does) run on thousands of servers and report back to a single console. - Easy to distribute changes to the local agents from the console. Good Luck, John.