[Oracle-l] MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager plug-in question

https://shop.oracle.com lists it at $1800 per monitored server processor.

I evaluated the plugin once upon a time. There were several shortcomings
and bugs. IIRC, monitoring SS2K was problematic. I ended up writing my own
basic plugin, but the complexity of expanding it to monitor the metrics I
needed and the agent instability proved to be too much for the return on
that investment.

Luckily, I managed to acquire licenses for Quest's Spotlight on SQL Server
Enterprise just this week. It has a few quirks like each metric has to have
email notification setup separately, but much much nicer to monitor SQL
Server than Grid -- AND NO BUGGY ORACLE AGENT TO INSTALL on every SQL Server
box. It's agentless! YAY! Of course, YMMV.

I'm wondering when Oracle figures out that it's pricing itself out of
several opportunities...

My $.02,
Rich

That is weird. There's nothing on the Extension Exchange talking about licensing fees.

Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205
Office: 615-517-3355
Cell: 615-663-1673
Email: chris.taylor_at_ingrambarge.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org On Behalf Of Rich Jesse
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:23 AM
To: oracle-l@freelists.org
Subject: Re: MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager plug-in question
https://shop.oracle.com lists it at $1800 per monitored server processor.

I evaluated the plugin once upon a time. There were several shortcomings and bugs. IIRC, monitoring SS2K was problematic. I ended up writing my own basic plugin, but the complexity of expanding it to monitor the metrics I needed and the agent instability proved to be too much for the return on that investment.

Luckily, I managed to acquire licenses for Quest's Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise just this week. It has a few quirks like each metric has to have email notification setup separately, but much much nicer to monitor SQL Server than Grid -- AND NO BUGGY ORACLE AGENT TO INSTALL on every SQL Server box. It's agentless! YAY! Of course, YMMV.

I'm wondering when Oracle figures out that it's pricing itself out of several opportunities...

My $.02,
Rich

Chris,


We're using it on several SQL Servers. Version 10.2 I believe. It
works, but if your using dynamic registration with SQL*Server then after
each reboot of SQL you'll end up changing the agent's configuration
because it doesn't like it. Static registration works fine though.


Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Leader



From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
On Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:01 AM
To: 'oracle-l@freelists.org'
Subject: MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager plug-in question

Anyone using the MS SQL Server plugin with Enterprise Manager and is
there any costs associated with using it? (Licensing etc)



I looked on OTN and I can't find anything that indicates that you have
to do anything other than install it but I wanted to double check.



Thanks,



Chris Taylor

Sr. Oracle DBA

Ingram Barge Company

Nashville, TN 37205

Office: 615-517-3355

Cell: 615-663-1673

Email: chris.taylor_at_ingrambarge.com



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