RE: EM To Go

Apart from when you are on the move (to/from work), or sat at home in the evening, or at the pub, or shopping, or sat in Hooters.. How about when you're lay in bed on a Sunday morning (we've had customers fix problems in exactly this situation!)? Monitors are great - we sell one! - and IMHO

RE: EM To Go

Mark Leith scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: land line constantly whilst you are on call.. DBAs have lives too.. ;) OK, how come nobody ever told me i was allowed to have a life? and where the web site to order one?;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA BAARF Party member #25

RE: EM To Go

Dick, The obvious questions are: 1) what does it monitor? 2) what problems does it diagnose and fix on its own? Jared On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 13:14, Goulet, Dick wrote: Binley, I've spent more time than I care to remember in reactive mode. It stinks, which is most likely why I

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I be Ari Kaplan, designer and creator of Pocket DBA is not very happy. On the other hand he should be, they are following his idea. BTW, you can get a Palm VII [the dinosaur] for about $50 and it has a modem, probably more than you need to monitor a database. $70 with external keyboard. Luis

RE: EM To Go

Patrice, We tried setting up Expand Beyond's Pocket DBA a couple of years ago. The biggest problem was the lack of wireless capabilities outside of major metropolitan areas. I believe that situation has improved somewhat, but it still needs a ton of work by the phone companies. Heck

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I am interested in the Thera... Not going to happen anytime soon, I have to buy things like clothes and food. (sigh) Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I be Ari Kaplan, designer and creator of Pocket DBA is

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Dick, This is actually one of the largest misconceptions with PocketDBA/PocketAdmin - the term wireless or having to use it on a WLAN (Wireless LAN).. You may notice now that Expand Beyond are marketing PocketDBA as a Mobile tool rather than a Wireless tool. You can use PocketDBA via a dial-up

Re: EM To Go

IMHO, I cannot see a use for such a gadget. Production issues come under 2 categories: 1. It can wait until tomorrow. 2. I have to do something now. In the first case, I am happy to remain blissfully un-aware until I get to work. In the second case, I prefer a proper screen and keyboard to do

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I suppose I better find a new job then eh? ;) Mark (PocketDBA and monitoring/management tool Sales Support Critter) Leith -Original Message- Binley Lim Sent: 08 September 2003 17:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L IMHO, I cannot see a use for such a gadget. Production

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Mark, NAW, Sounds like someone else needs to get a real production support job. Production issues ALL fall into one bucket, I needed to do something 10 minutes ago. BTW: When I did eval PocketDBA it worked rather nicely with a regular browser, we just could not get it to work outside

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NAW, Sounds like someone else needs to get a real production support job. Production issues ALL fall into one bucket, I needed to do something 10 minutes ago. If you think like that, jokingly or otherwise, you are likely to lock yourself into reactive mode versus proactive mode. I leave you to

Re: EM To Go

Hi! I once built a monitoring system for an European telco, having databases in about 10 countries to monitor. We already had made a very simple looking web interface for database monitoring and regular maintenance/decision tasks. When I got a request to put this monitoring environment mobile, I

RE: EM To Go

Binley, I've spent more time than I care to remember in reactive mode. It stinks, which is most likely why I wrote my own database monitor 10 years ago. At least when it sees a problem it's 4 or more hours into the future before the end users know it's going to happen. And at that,

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Good, you have a much lesser need for a vendor-grown monitoring PDA-tool to address problems, reactively, on the fly then. That was my point and I'm glad you agree ;-) - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:14

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Binley, For that purpose your dead on, but it would be good to have a PDA enabled tool that let me do user accounts/modifications, schema mods, and the like when I can't get to my laptop. Like when I'm stuck in traffic between buildings. (Damn cell phone) Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA