Oracle Openworld Directory Index

Tactical Solutions
Current Status of EM in BT
Future Direction




( It’s Thursday , it’s 08:30 in the morning and it’s session 164 )
BT / CP Today

6 UK Computer Centres
40+ Production DBA’s - 8 Locations
800+ Managed servers (Sun, HP, Compaq, IBM/NUMA, NT)
OPS and High Availability Configurations
701 Production databases , 600+ test
7.1 3
7.3 277
8.0 229
8.1 192
16.4 Terabytes allocated production db space
ave 6.4 Tb nightly backup volume





Backup Status

Unix Capacity Planning System





Issues with the Tactical Tools
Lack of integration - diverse custom scripts and processes

What do we Want ?

Scalable & Adaptive Management Interface to provide everything in our tactical stack + more






Deployment phase II

Deploy the Tools
Training/familiarisation exercise
Challenges
IA deployment
9i IA automated install
Space requirements
Silent mode issues
Integration into Quark ( jumpstart ) build
Data Gatherer management / config
8.1.7 agents for 7.3.4 databases
Manual install on key systems



…yet more challenges
Error alerting
OEM detects events not alert log messages - but new alert.tcl script to test
Wishlist outstanding
Single Signon On strategic solution
LDAP integration within EM
digital certificate / smartcard authentication not passwords