CHAPTER 7Monitoring Data Guard Implementations

Proactive database monitoring is vital to the task of keeping a production database up and running. Monitoring a database for potential outage conditions is the best way to maintain the highest uptime of your production environment. Monitoring solutions such as HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, and Oracle Grid Control classify database alerts in two or three severity categories: critical, warning, and minor. Basically, a critical condition would indicate that a database outage has occurred or is about to happen. A warning condition would indicate that the database or the application component of the database would become an outage if the condition were not handled by a DBA. A minor condition is an informative ...

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