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This reply is late, so wondering if still relevant? If yes, we'll need to investigate the views offered by DB2 LUW for replication health and the mechanics behind it as well as the possibility of creating monitoring directly on the read-only env (if we can't obtain sufficient insights from the r/w env). Would you be open…

@manoj_sql, same request: We have a beta version of DPA in a docker container and would love to include you in the beta testing of it. Do you mind reaching out to be at robert.mandeville@solarwinds .com? Happy to continue this discussion offline..

Hi cmartin2, we have a beta version of DPA in a docker container and would love to include you in the beta testing of it. Do you mind reaching out to be at robert.mandeville@solarwinds.com? Happy to continue this discussion offline..

Would love to hear what you'd like to see covered.. Is it more training you'd like or hidden gems or ?

In researching this topic, it seemed highly unlikely that the vulnerability that was exploited by the hackers in the Equifax case was a day 0 vulnerability. If that was the case, then Equifax should have had time to mitigate the vulnerability given that joshberman​ timeline remains accurate. Investigations continue...

SQL Sentry (part of the SentryOne family of products) does monitor SQL Server datafile group usage both from a performance/acitivity perspective, but also from a space usage perspective. See some screenshots below in how we represent this for volumes, datafiles individually or as a group for a given database. You can see…

Oh, you all were looking for a TREAT? Sorry for the trick on Q20 - we are investigating what is going on. BTW, "COMPLETED" didn't work either.

ecklerwr1​ - deadlocks are really just a special type of blocking scenario where neither transaction involved can proceed because they are both blocking each other with a resource they have a lock on. They are at an impasse. This scenario is resolved by the database engine where it will kill one of the transactions and…

Full disclosure: I'm a SolarWinds employee. However, speaking as a production DBA, (which I was for over 15 years) something like that would have been very difficult to find actually. It likely would have come down to tracing (meaning I'd have to wait for the event to occur again while tracing before I could even start…

Ah, OK, that may be the case then. I'd follow those instructions.

The answer is 42. We just don't know the question.

mine didn't reflect right away, but once I refreshed my browser, it self-corrected.

CPUs on LPARs are very funky indeed! We used to license DPA as core-based for Unix/Linux and AIX was the absolute worst OS to untangle.

Richard: Are they still looking at DPA? Are they members of Thwack?

We have limited info from your Thwack account and were looking for a specific opt in for more complete info about participants. If you'd still like to participate in some capacity, you can email me directly: robert.mandeville@solarwinds.com. Thanks for posting!

If you look at the 2nd paragraph, first sentence: "QPA is designed to intelligently assemble current and historical data for a query, combining all the information about a query into one place" That should help you get there...

So depending on whether we are talking SQL Server or Oracle, you could run a script to alert you if backups are not successful. Here is a post for SQL Server backups. Custom Alert - SQL Server Backup Monitoring Here is one for Oracle. Custom Alert - Oracle RMAN Backup Failed Couple of thoughts: * These may work for your…

+1 on wabbott​

Make sure you read *ALL* of the question. Then it should become clear for this one. This reminds me of those tests that state very clearly - "Step 1: Read though the entire test first..." The last instruction is to ignore all other instructions/questions and sign your name at the bottom, then turn it in.

Think of it like there are two aspects here. Health and performance. Health means all systems are "green" and capacity is ready. It's like going to your doctor and asking am I healthy? The doctor will likely do some tests, check some stats (cholesterol, blood pressure, resting heart rate, etc.). If all comes back within…

The screenshot is actually for the review, not a screenshot of DPA. If you were once part of the family, you still qualify as a reviewer. Would love your feedback! Also, when really needed, you could do a trial in your environment - for when you run into those really sticky, tough to find performance issues...

Suat, there's a way to create custom users in DPA that may provide what you want. Navigate to Options -> Administration tab -> User Administration. Create a custom user with only access to which instances they need or will support. When they login, they will only see those instances that they have privs on.

You may be thinking of our old licensing model. At this point, anything you collect with DPA, you own unless you actually unregister an instance that's not being monitored any longer. The one thing to watch out for though is we'll keep that storage, so by switching it around often to different instances, it could cause…

nnettrouer​ - would you be willing to act as a reference for DPA (basically just repeat what you stated above)?

I think it depends on what your body (servers and apps) can take. As long as the impact stays low, frequent sampling can be good thing - but I agree, it's key that the impact stays low (if you have a dodgy knee, consider carefully a choice to do high impact exercises). It would be a bit ironic if a performance monitoring…

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Great point! Another good example of resources exceeding a threshold might not be bad. Allocated server memory != (does not equal) active memory usage.

If they'd like to learn more about DPA and what it can do, let me know. We can take this offline and I can make sure they get some content that helps explain what they are looking at and why it matters to them (regardless of whether people are complaining or not). 8 )

Other than just getting a question correct - what are thoughts on health versus performance? Do you think they are synonymous? Siblings? Why/Why not?

We'll be getting a report from G2 Crowd for everyone that completed a review. We'll then match that up with your posts here. When all checks out, this should be golden. Thanks for participating!!