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A Preview of Upcoming Blogs A Preview of Upcoming Blogs

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.

In this next series of blogs, I intend to break 10G Grid Control's performance monitoring and tuning features into their individual components. I don't want an individual blog to be more than a few pages in length. Someone told me that one of the cardinal rules of blogging is to keep it simple and short. I'm OK with the simple part, but I certainly can be verbose from time to time. So if I get too long winded discussing a particular component, I'll break the blog up into two parts.

In Part 1, I'll provide a general overview of the component. I'll include screen shots and provide detailed definitions and descriptions of the integral parts that make up the component being discussed. In Part 2, I'll describe how we use the component here at Giant Eagle. For example, the next topic I intend to discuss is 10G Grid Control's host monitoring component. So next week's blog will provide readers with an overview of this new feature. I'll provide screen shots and definitions of the various terms we use when we talk about 10G Grid Control host monitoring. After reading the first blog, you should have a general understanding of 10G Grid Control's host monitoring capabilities. That will lay the groundwork for the next blog that will show you how to use 10G Grid Control's host monitoring component to monitor the hardware platform and operating system your database engine runs on. Clear as mud? Good...

A few of the 10G Enterprise Manager features I intend to cover are:

    • Host Monitoring Features
    • Alerts, Metrics and Thresholds
    • Alert Notification Rules and Methods
    • 10G Grid Control's Database Performance Page
    • AWR - Automatic Workload Repository
    • ADDM - Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
    • 10G Grid Control SQL Tuning Tools Overview
    • SQL Tuning Advisor
    • SQL Access Advisor
    • Segment Advisor

In addition, we have another set of data warehouses being converted to 10G in the near future. These are the multi-terabyte data stores that are hit hard by our end user population. I will deviate from our performance discussion from time to time to provide you with a status on our upgrade activities and discuss the lessons we learned during the planning and execution of our database migrations.

Thanks for reading.


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