Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

What? A 9I article in a 10G blog? What happened? And its not on host monitoring like you promised? Blashpemy! Well, I thought I’d deviate from 10G for one blog to show you something neat that we have been using to tune vendor queries that are not coded for “optimal performance”.

So here’s what I’ll do to make up for it. Because Stored Outline administration has changed somehwat much from 9I to 10G, I’ll make sure I cover how Stored Outlines are created and administered in a 10G environment in a future blog.

No matter how expertly you tune an Oracle database, if the server it runs on is overloaded, underpowered or configured incorrectly, you will never obtain “maximus database performis”.

So, let’s start our discussion on 10G Enterprise Manager’s performance monitoring features by investigating the tool’s new host monitoring capabilities. This first blog will provide you with a quick tour of EM’s hot new host monitoring component. In my next blog, I’ll show you how you use the information it generates to monitor operating system and hardware performance.

Ok, I just got notification that the administrators need to “freeze” this blogsite for a few days. The freeze starts on Wednesday (4/13/05) and may last until this coming Friday or Monday. We are converting to a new content management system called Plone. Plone is an open-source content management system that provides the capability for blogs, RSS feeds, and other fun stuff.

I wanted to try and squeeze a blog in that discusses 10G Grid Control’s new host monitoring features. These new tools will allow us to monitor and tune the hardware and operating system environment that Oracle runs on. But it looks like I’m not going to make the deadline. I started to rush through the article (or blog or whatever you want to call it) and decided that I would prefer to postpone it until next week. There is just too much information to cover and rushing through it would be a disservice to you and to the host monitoring features that 10G Enterprise Manager provides. I want to cover each new feature as thoroughly as I can. I have numerous screen prints, hints and tips I want to include in this next blog.

So we’ll switch topics for a minute and I’ll provide you with a quick preview of what’s to come in future blogs.

Consider this to be the first of many blogs on the art of performance monitoring and tuning using 10G Enterprise Manager. I’ll start the series by discussing how the latest release of Oracle’s SGT (Sissy GUI Tool) will force us to change the way administer, monitor and tune Oracle databases.

In upcoming blogs, I’ll break 10G Grid Control’s monitoring infrastructure into individual components and discuss each one in-depth. By the time I’m done, we’ll all be 10G Enterprise Manager experts.