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Indura Software's database monitoring tool helps identify database problems, such as limited storage space and cloaked indexes, before they wreak havoc on your e-commerce business applications
NOBODY LIKES TO Walt to make his or her purchases, either in the physical world or when shopping online. A Web application with poor responsiveness can disgust even your most eager potential buyer, who will walk away from the transaction - and your business - with nothing but hostility to share with the world.
This means that e-vendors must nurture and coddle their databases as much as possible. The amount of time your customers spend waiting during transactions directly depends on the speed with which your business applications retrieve information from your database.
Granted, if your online portal has Web appeal, some users may actually forgive slow service and try to complete their purchases anyway. But if your database server ignominiously crashes (say a table runs out of disk space), it will probably take minutes, if not longer, before you can restore the service. By then, you will have lost even the most tenacious customer.
Unfortunately, your database requires constant human supervision, even to prevent trivial resource problems, such as limited disk space or poor indexes, from becoming business-crippling disasters. Right now your DBA (database administrator) is probably juggling the tasks of monitoring database performance and predicting future requirements.
This is not only time-consuming and costly but also hardly a catchall. Even the best DBA can miss crucial database cries for intervention.
A new product from Indura Software, CentralWatch 1.5, will help your DBA keep an eye on your Oracle databases. CentralWatch summarizes database performance trends and statistics, helping your DBA identify any potential business-halting situations.
The ability to recognize and prevent database problems before they happen will save you an immeasurable amount of lost revenue from downtime and help keep your customers active and satisfied.
Although the product is inexpensive and does a fine job of keeping your DBA in the know, it still needs a lot of ironing out in the areas of trend analysis and alert features, which is why I could only give it a score of Good in my testing.
In addition, the product supports only Oracle databases. If you use IBM,...