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Availability - Database Management Brick

Description

Availability - Database Management is collecting and correlating performance, event and availability statistics to predict and, thus, avoid potential downtime for database management systems.
Brick Information

Tactical

(0-2 years)

Strategic

(2-5 years)

  • Auto DBA (NBS)
  • CA Unicenter
  • Custom Shell Scripts
  • Oracle Enterprise Monitoring
  • PerfMon
  • Quest Monitoring Tool
  • Oracle Enterprise Monitory

Retirement

(To be eliminated)

Containment

(No new development)

 

 

  • Nagios

Baseline

(Today)

Emerging

(To track)

  • Auto DBA (NBS)
  • Custom Shell Scripts
  • Nagios
  • Oracle Enterprise Monitoring
  • PerfMon
  • Quest Monitoring Tool
  • Other leading or innovative database management products such as:
    • LeccoTech
    • NetIQ

Comments

  • Nagios is designated as Strategic for other ESM bricks, but not for database monitoring.
  • Additional strategic tools will be determined after elements to be monitored are defined in the ESM process design and implementation efforts.
  • Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
  • Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.

Time Table

This architecture definition approved on: April 21, 2004

The next review is scheduled in: TBD