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Spotlight
on Oracle
The Fastest Way to Find and Fix Performance Bottlenecks in the Oracle Database
Explosive data growth can lead to database performance bottlenecks that can cripple your organization. And its up to you to find these bottlenecks before applications are affected. But how are you supposed to do your job without a clear view of I/O and user activity? Relying on manual methods to diagnose and resolve every issue is time-consuming and inefficient, especially when you consider that the Oracle environment is getting more and more complex. You need automated solutions to quickly identify, diagnose and resolve performance problems. Spotlight on Oracle allows you to rapidly discover performance bottlenecks in your Oracle database. It shows you the performance statusand diagnoses the healthof your environment, both in real time and historically using a granular record-and-playback function. Spotlight automatically sets a baseline of normal activity for each instance and then sets thresholds. Based on these thresholds, Spotlight delivers alerts as it detects performance bottlenecks of any kind. Spotlight provides real-time diagnostics, granting you the fastest way to find and fix performance bottlenecks. And you can also diagnose RAC (Real Application Cluster) performance issues with ease by using Spotlight on Oracle RAC. This client-based diagnostics solution provides a graphical representation of all critical performance metrics. Gain an overview of the entire system from the homepage screen to dramatically simplify the process of identifying bottlenecks. Drilldowns for each issue give you highly detailed performance metrics, showing the cluster architecture, cluster activities, and cluster-wide performance for fast problem detection and diagnosis of your RAC database.
Spotlight on Oracle has reduced the amount of time to identify issues in this environment by 97 percent. Previously it took us at least 30 minutes, but now we can do it in under a minute. Iqbal Mohammed Chief of Systems and Database Administration Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

BENEFITS Discover hard-to-find bottlenecks Eliminate guesswork in identifying problems in the Oracle database View an intuitive GUI, providing instant visual comprehension of performance bottlenecks for quick time to resolution Prevent or minimize unplanned database downtime

Spotlight on Oracle provides an intuitive interface displaying the architecture of your Oracle environment for immediate diagnosis of performance bottlenecks

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Features and Benefits

Real-Time Diagnostics See graphical flows that illustrate the rate at which data moves between components. Get audio or visual alerts of potential bottlenecks if any component begins to exceed performance thresholds. Extend the ability to play back past instances. Enhanced Top SQL Drilldown Gain a consolidated view of the SQL statements to identify those consuming the most resources. Analyze Trace Drill down for a graphical view of Oracle trace file contents. See how Oracle is processing SQL statements for the database and how resources are being used to execute those statements. Knowledge Xpert for Oracle Administration Reference a built-in tuning guide. Troubleshooting Instance Leverage a baseline for normal activity from a built-in calibration process. Set up thresholds and get warnings of impending problems from visual or audible alerts. Alert Log Reader Read a chronological list of messages and errors that have occurred in the Oracle database, offering quick identification of areas to fix. Diagnostics for Unix, Linux and Windows OS See real-time graphic displays of the actual flow of data in your Unix, Linux, and Windows operating systems to get diagnostics on the server OS. Predictive Diagnostics Predict the future performance of individual SQL statements as well as increases in contention that might result in database performance degradation if current trends continue. You can also predict optimum system resource requirements via performance modeling. Diagnostics for RAC Infrastructure View an aggregate of performance data across all instances of the cluster. See a consolidated view of cluster-level alarms. SQL Optimization Eliminate the manual, time-intensive process of ensuring that SQL code performs as fast as possible. Virtualization Diagnostics Detect and diagnose whether virtualization of the Oracle instance may be impacting database performance by limiting CPU or memory available. For more information on Spotlight on Oracle, please visit www.quest.com/spotlight-onoracle.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Client: Windows XP SP1+ Windows Vista Business SP1+ SQL*Net 2.3.4 or later Windows 7 Oracle 9.2.0.4, 10g (full client or instant client), 11g Citrix XP Database: Oracle 9.2.0.4 (or later) Oracle 10g (R1 and R2) Oracle 11g (R1 and R2) Operating Systems: Windows 7 Windows XP (SP2 or SP3) Windows 2003 Server Windows 2008 Server HP-UX 11i, 11i v2, 11i v3 IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10 Red Hat and SUSE (Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6)

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