PM Tech is launching a new version of its locally designed, comprehensive Oracle database manager, PM Ora Professional.
Version 2.2, scheduled for release this month, has several enhancements over release 2.0, including a first comparison tool, additional reports and improved security features.
Ora Professional enables users to manage their Oracle database environment to maximise time for planning, development and expansion. The database can be managed and administered from any Web enabled client.
Ora Professional comes with seven modules containing key features for administering the database. The comparison tool release in V2.2 allows users to compare two databases on all levels - from table space name level, through to table storage parameter and privileges differences.
This release runs on versioning technology and enables users to take defined snapshots of the database, save it and use it for comparison against another database at any time.
The reports module has additional options, a performance report and a custom report. The performance report allows users to generate a complete report on database performance, ranging from the cache hit ratios, through to most resource intensive sessions and SQL statements.
The custom report allows users to define their own site-specific reports. It enables application specific and standardised application checks, plus it ensures the knowledge of these reports is kept within an organisation.
The PMMonitor framework can access information and reports can be e-mailed from the Monitor. Versioning in this release allows users to define their own versioning masters that can be saved and kept for future cycles.
Versioning is also applied to database performance. When performance is good, a master can be defined; when performance is bad, the versioning is run against the good performance master to identify what has changed to cause bad performance.
The security module has more features such as user cloning, object level privilege grants, configurable user access, and for Oracle 8 there is user password management.
PMMonitor also has application security with different levels of access within the application. These prevent users from changing scans and scan configuration, or unauthorised users deleting messages, or changing database configuration.
There is a new functionality to escalate alarms to different levels or send priority messages to the current framework. Customers can also define their own scans, alarms and thresholds.
The first releases of 2.2 will be available at the beginning of September; a complete release 2.2 with all functionality, described above, will be available at the end of September.
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