RE: Looks Like The Party Is Over In Menlo (2nd try)

>===== Original Message From "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> ===== >From: William Rice <ricew@operamail.com> >> >>We had over a 100 boxes with informix on them with automated monitoring >>software. The systems were not real big, and the applications evolved >>quite >>slowly. There were some boxes I logged into maybe four times in my >>two years with the company. >> >>I am in no way commenting on whether or not one should use SE, just >>addressing the question on a hands off instance of IDS. >> >>Will >> >>P.S. a lot of time was spent writing the automated monitoring scripts, so >>this definitely required full time knowledgable DBA's(wish I had been in >>that category ....), but they were completely hands off. > >So if something went wrong, you didn't have to do *anything*? If you had an >AF, everything would just sort itself out? Very impressive. > It didn't happen enough to us for me to consider that an extreme exception. I can honestly say in my 2 years there we had three AF files generated on production systems, two of which were generated on the same evening, none of those three caused database corruption. We had two instances which required oncheck repairs during that same time period. So yes, some looking into issues was necessary, but for over 100 instances thats pretty darn reliable. The systems we monitored were mostly out in the field, the power supplies to these boxes weren't the most stable. There weren't many months where a couple of boxes didnt have hard crashes due to power loss or hardware failures, but IDS kept on trucking... So yes, I will say that once everything was set up we pretty much didnt have to do anything except add space when the alerts came about, change our scripts when we upgraded, and try to assist applications. Maybe we were just real lucky. Will P.S. I am not counting issues which required DBA intervention due to <SNIP> ------------------------------------------------------------ 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------