IMHO, I think Spotlight is awesome. It is a good tool to find out
at-a-glance where your bottlenecks are within the DBMS. It's best for a
high-level graphical overview at any given point in time, but if you need to
drill down into the details - it's got plenty of that too. It's "moving"
interface and cool-looking layout is what visaully separates it from other
tools.

My only beef, is that is doesn't record historical events, but it does
snap-in to a bigger, much more expensive component called I/Watch. I/Watch
is a central data gathering and event-driven, alerting system which can call
other snapped-in products like Storage Manager, SQL Expert and Spotlight to
diagnose problems, provide solutions and automatically fix storage problems.

Quest's products are Muy Expensivo, but it's worth the investment.

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kavanagh, Paul [SMTP:Paul.[Email Address Removed] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:59 AM
> To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
> Subject: quest spotlight opinions
>
> Its just been sprung on me this morning, that I have to attend a meeting
> this afternoon and give a presentation on the pros and cons of Quest
> Spotlight Utility and how it may be suited or not suited to our
> environment. (~600GB 8.1.7.4.0 Tru64 Spatial DB).
> I have just started downloading it to evaluate it.
>
> Can anyone that has used it or evaluated it give me a heads up on it,
> before I start ? Pros Cons etc,
>
> thanks !!
> Paul
>
>
>
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