Oracle Enterprise Manager vs SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

• Database status. Being able to see which databases are up/down, at a glance, allows us to quickly react to issues.
• Reporting. We report on last backups, daily status, a host of metrics, and compliance levels of all our databases. With reporting we come into the office with a set of "status" reports and we know instantly if a database has issues.
• Metrics. We have a number of KPI's and SLA's we need to meet. Metrics applied to the databases allow us to stay on top of those requirements as well as fix common issues without a DBA needing to log in to assess the issue.

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• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the status or some of our most important applications. It has the capability of letting us know when an application goes down which helps us fix the issue faster.
• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the resources on servers. By knowing the key components of the server such as CPU, RAM, and storage, we can forecast whether we need to increase or decrease resources on any server.
• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps us by sending real time alerts when issues occur related to servers that we are monitoring.

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• We also use OEM to monitor SQL Server. However, OEM only provided limited features for SQL Server. It would be nice if we can schedule backup jobs for SQL Server in OEM.
• The ability to run SQL queries. You can't run queries in OEM. I have to go to SQL Developer or SQL PLUS to run. queries.

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• The new node based licensing model makes it difficult to justify the price for nodes that only utilize a few components.
• Script results need to be a statistic. It would be a lot more useful if we could populate a table of results, including alpha-numeric strings, boolean, etc.
• A lot of the AppInsight components cannot be disabled. You have to either use the whole template or nothing.

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• When we were using Oracle GoldenGate, it made our life easy in terms of visually seeing the configuration and identifying issues easily
• It also makes ASM management very easy instead of doing it in the command line
• Creating policies and implementing certain standard configurations across all the databases is easy

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• SolarWinds has helped to improve proactive resolution or mitigation of application issues. This has often resulted in issues fixed before customers were aware of the problem.
• SolarWinds has provided valuable information when troubleshooting issues to meet Service Level Agreements.
• SolarWinds has helped get the correct team working on issues.

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