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Insight for Oracle Databases v3.0

Overview of Process:
The "IBM Insight for Oracle Databases" utility program, and its subsequent reporting
process, is intended as a convenient, high-level, relational database system and
performance statistics collector for in-production relational database environments.
IBM Insight for Oracle Databases is a Windows .NET 4.0 application that will capture
performance statistics provided by in-production databases. Captured statistics are
written to the hard drive of the Windows PC dedicated to the collection process. When
the collection process is complete, the statistical data is sent to IBM Techline for report
generation. The report will be sent to you detailing how your production databases
were utilized. The report includes system-wide: active users, workload, DB wait time,
database CPU consumption as a percentage of capacity, logical I/O, physical I/O, and
network I/O by time of day. Also included is host CPU utilization and paging activity by
time of day. System and instance information is provided along with system global area
(SGA) size and cache statistics. Statistics from multiple databases can be collected
simultaneously. Oracle RAC systems are supported. The collection process is
designed to have minimal impact on your production database environment.
Note: Dates and times displayed in the Insight report will be based on the PC clock
where the Insight Collector is run not on the clocks of the database servers.

For questions and/or defects, please send an email to: eSizings@us.ibm.com

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Usage Requirements:

A Dedicated Windows PC used for Data Collection:
Hardware (minimum)
Intel EM64T Core 2, i5, or i7 processor above 2 GHz.
2 GB of physical memory.
4 GB of free disk space.
Server network connection.
The PC must be powered on during the entire data collection process.

Software
Windows Server 2003, 2008, XP, Vista, or 7.
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 2.
(Installed automatically during installation)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
(Installed automatically during installation)
Windows Power Management (hibernation/stand-by/sleep) must be
disabled during the collection period.

Oracle Database:

Insight for Oracle Databases supports database releases 10g and 11g.
The init.ora parameter statistics_level set to ALL.
The init.ora parameter timed_statistics set to TRUE.
The init.ora parameter "timed_os_statistics" set to 60.
The init.ora parameter parallel_max_servers set greater than zero.

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Oracle User ID:

An Oracle user ID with access to the following views:

DBA_DATA_FILES DBA_TEMP_FILES DBA_FREE_SPACE
GV$INSTANCE GV$LIBRARYCACHE GV$OSSTAT
GV$PARAMETER GV$ROWCACHE GV$SESSION
GV$SGA GV$SGAINFO GV$SYSSTAT
GV$WAITSTAT GV$SYSTEM_EVENT GV$SYS_TIME_MODEL
V$DATABASE V$DATAFILE GV$SYSTEM_WAIT_CLASS
V$FILESTAT V$INSTANCE V$OPTION
V$OSSTAT V$STATNAME V$NLS_PARAMETERS
V$VERSION V$SYS_TIME_MODEL V$SYSTEM_EVENT
V$SYSTEM_WAIT_CLASS

Installation Instructions:

1. On the dedicated Windows PC, copy the installation executable
SetupInsightOracleDB_<instruction set>.exe to a temporary directory.

2. From Windows Explorer, double click on SetupInsightOracleDB_<instruction
set >.exe to begin installation. Follow the installation process and reboot if
necessary.

Insight for Oracle Databases is designed to be uninstalled later.

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Insight for Oracle Databases - Collector Usage Instructions:



Home Page
STEPS
1. From the Windows Start menu, select Programs ->IBM ->Insight for Oracle
Databases ->InsightOracleDB Collector.
2. Press the Next button.
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Contacts Page
STEPS
1. Enter your name, email address, and company name.
2. Enter the name and email address of your IBM or Business Partner contact.
3. Press the "Next" button.


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Selection Page
STEPS
1. Manually add Oracle databases to the list. Enter the authorized Oracle User ID
and password. Enter the host name of the database server, the port number of
the Oracle Listener, and the Service Name of the database.
Press the "Add" button.
NOTE: For Oracle RAC systems, onl y one database connection is needed.
2. Select by checkbox the Oracle databases you want to include in the data
collection.
3. Press the Next button.
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Collection Page
Start Collection
1. You will see text boxes representing the target databases included in the data
collection.
2. Press the "Start Collection" button to begin the data collection process.
3. During the collection, the Collector will initialize and scan target databases on
one minute boundaries.

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Collection Page - Continued
The above screen print shows green database icons representing active data collection
processes.
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Collection Page - Continued
When data collection for an interval is complete, the database icons are grey
representing idle data collection processes waiting for the next minute boundary.

Stop Collection
1. Press the "Stop Collection" button to end the data collection process.
2. Press the "Next" button.
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Submission Page
Steps
1. The Insight for Oracle Databases data file (InsightOracleData<timestamp>.sdf)
resides in your documents directory. ex: C:\User\<UserName>\Documents
2. If the Insight data file is greater than 5 MB in size, please send an email to IBM
Techline (eSizings@us.ibm.com) requesting FTP server access. In the subject
line of the email, enter your company name followed by "INSIGHT DB DATA FTP
Help Required". In the body of the email, enter your name and contact
information. FTP instructions will be sent in a reply to your email.
3. If the Insight data file is less than 5 MB in size, please email the data file to IBM
Techline for report generation (eSizings@us.ibm.com). In the subject line of the
email, enter the company name followed by "INSIGHT DB DATA". In the body of
the email, enter your name and contact information. The report will be sent in a
reply to your email.
4. Press the "Exit" button to exit the Collector.
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Release Notes
Version 3.0.0.0
8/31/2012 Initial release supporting Oracle databases 10g and 11g.