So we're a NPM/SAM/NTA/WPM house and we're looking at replacing our current Oracle and SQL database monitoring solution (HP OMW DBSPI) with what Orion can do. So we've had a look at the standard Oracle monitoring templates that come with SAM and they look great. All the different components we can monitor look good - very similar to what we can do with the existing tool. However, we've one small niggle. We've got 100s of databases globally. Now the default templates as they come with SAM seem to suggest that for each Oracle DB instance you want to monitor, you need to put the SID (or service name) of the database into the template and then deploy that template to the node. Isn't that going to mean that we're going to need a template per database? Isn't that going to get very big very quickly when you consider this at an enterprise level? Are we approaching this the wrong way?
Very intersted in hearing peoples thoughts on this and how they've managed the issue of referencing each SID etc
Same deal for SQL