monitoring (4)

Dave

Golden Gate Lag Graph + Alerting scripts on the way...

I posted my GoldenGate / Gnuplot lag time alerting shell scripts to a new GitHub repository: http://github.com/dmann99/ggtools The scripts worked on v8 and I don't think the INFO ALL screen has changed much since then so hoping it will work on v11 with a minimum…

Dave

RDA and HCVE...

I haven't look at Oracle's Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) tool in a couple of years. Back when we ran our systems on Windows I remember using a clunky version of RDA that looked like it was cobbled together with batch files and VB code. What…

Dave

Changing spreport to run StatsPacks from the command line...

Statspack Reports can be useful for diagnosing performance problems, but they are only useful if they are generated and available! I wanted to set up an operating system job to generate statspacks. First I wrote a cron job to execute statspack.snap() at intervals during our…

Dave

Make your own Long Running Operation

Did you know you can make your own Long Running Operation that is available to the V$SESSION_LONGOPS system view? At the bottom of the Oracle documentation for DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO is some example code: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_appinf.htm#i999254 In a previous post I posted Perl source code for a script…