Oracle SNMP Support Reference Guide

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Benefits of Oracle SNMP Support

The primary benefits of Oracle SNMP Support include the following:

Strictly speaking, Oracle SNMP Support is intended more for monitoring Oracle products than for managing them. Oracle SNMP Support is invaluable for tracking the status of an entire network of Oracle applications -- first, to verify normal operations, and second, to spot and react to potential problems as soon as they are detected. However, for purposes of investigating and ameliorating some problems, other Oracle tools such as Oracle Server Manager may be more appropriate. This is because Oracle SNMP Support is designed to query status, but not to change system parameters, whereas other tools are designed to set or tune system parameters. Oracle does not support using SNMP to change, as opposed to query, system parameters primarily because the security that SNMP currently can provide is not considered adequate.


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