Using Fault Detection and Recovery Tools

This section provides a sampling of tools for database fault management. By knowing the processes that are critical to the database, you can do some basic fault monitoring. You can set up scripts to do ps and parse the output, to ensure that the processes you care about are still active. More sophisticated application monitoring can be done with Compuware's EcoSNAP, which can detect application failures and report problems, with diagnostic information included. The rest of this section describes tools that are specifically for databases.

MC/ServiceGuard

MC/ServiceGuard is a high availability product from Hewlett-Packard that is used to protect your critical applications and servers. MC/ServiceGuard is ...

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