Release Information

The Quest Management Pack for Oracle - Operations Manager 2007 Edition

v1.1 of the Quest Management Pack for Oracle is now generally available. If you've downloaded an evaluation version of the Quest Management Pack for Oracle in the past, you may want to get the latest version.

With the Quest Management Pack for Oracle, organizations can:

Centralize and standardize performance and availability monitoring for Oracle database environments within their Windows, Unix and Linux domains

Maximize the investment in System Center Operations Manager 2007

Reduce the cost and complexity of managing Oracle database environments by leveraging a single tool for administration

New in this release:

Monitoring multiple hosts from a single agent:
Quest Management Pack for Oracle is now capable of monitoring multiple Oracle hosts from a single monitoring agent.

Agent-based and Agentless Monitoring:
The monitoring agent can now be configured to monitor remote Oracle hosts in addition to Oracle installations on the local host. Remote monitoring requires no footprint (no installed or running applications) on the host being monitored. Monitoring local Oracle installations requires less processing overall, while monitoring remotely offloads most of the processing required to a separate host. The data and views generated by Quest Management Pack for Oracle is functionally equivalent for both kinds of monitoring in this product.

Extensive platform support (Windows, UNIX, and Linux):

Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, XP, and Vista

Red Hat EL 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 AS/ES (32 & 64 bit)

SuSE SLES-9, 9.1, 10 (32 & 64 bit)

IBM AIX 5L Versions 5.2, 5.3 & 6.1

Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11i v1 through v3 (PA-RISC)

Sun Solaris 8, 9 & 10 (SPARC, x86 & x86_64)

Troubleshooting enhancements:

WMIQ - simplifies executing WMI queries from the console.

CollectorStatus - provides a live view at the status of the data collection by the agent.

Configuration import:
Configuration files from both 1.0 and 1.1 can be imported into an existing agent. This simplifies the moving of monitoring agents from one machine to another, and upgrading from previous installations of Quest Management Pack for Oracle.

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