HI,

I am hoping to get your opinions about "Tivoli Monitoring for
Databases". Our enterprise environment is AIX/Red Hat Linux, running a
lot of IBM P series and E servers. We need to monitor LUW UDB
performance and some MS SQLSERVER performance going forward.

We are considering Tivoli monitoring because it offers a suite of
products pluggable as our company expands. There are: Tivoli monitors
for network (the new Netview) product, monitor for cluster, monitor
for web...in addition to monitor for databases. Tivoli can give you a
total performance perspective. But I am wondering does this argument
really matters.

Do you have favorable (or not) opinion about it over other 3rd party
tools like BMC,Quest or IBM's own  OMEGAMON XE for distributed db ?

How easy is to setup,capture,save/analyze total performance even in
the historical sense, like you want to be able to compare performance
data before major upgrade and after major upgrade.

Your input is most welcome, especially if you have installed Tivoli
monitor in your organization.

Thank you.
RSL