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Open Source Toolsfor Oracle DBAs


IntroductionNew technology and possibilitiesCommunityExchange of ideasFreedom from licensing issues


A Short History1992 – First Linux Distro, Oracle v71997 – SCO Comp Lib + Oracle 7.31997 – Oracle releases v8 on Linux2001 - Mod_plsql, Apache – Oracle AS2003 – All Oracle products run on Linux


System Monitoringwith Nagios

various interfaces – browser, pda*nix platformsuses Apacheauthorization + securityCustomizablehistorical datahttp://nagios.org


System Monitoringwith Nagios


Monitoring Files withFetchlog

Monitor listener.log, alert.log, backup logs, etcMatches regular expressionsBookmarks where you were last in fileSpecify logfile, bookmarks file, pattern on cmd lineIntegrates easily with Nagios


Version Control withCVS

Win32 or *nix clientsSource code, config files, docsEasy setupMultiple repositoriesBranches, commit, checkout etc.http://www.cvshome.org


SecurityLike backups, sometimes ignored at your own perilFile permissionsBuffer overflows, vulnerability alertsSQL InjectionPasswordsSpoofing packets, eavesdroppingEx. Dblink buffer overflow to SYS privileges


SecurityIntegrit (http://integrit.sourceforge.net/)o creates checksums on files on initial runo monitor ORACLE_HOME directorieso check for changes, patches, relinking, deleted fileso great for auditing


SecurityBurp Intruder (http://portswigger.net/proxy/)o Audit applications for SQL Injectiono Run various tests against web-based applicationso Hijackingo Cross-site scripting


SecurityNMapscan servers for open portsOracle listener, ssh, smtp, http etc


SecurityPete Finnigan’s siteo default password checkero password crackero grants + privs checkingo filesystem vulnerabilitieso various probes + scannerso listing of other tools – free + commercial


Real ApplicationClusters

RedHat’s GFS vs OCFSCentOS for RedHat Distros w/o SupportXenSource.com – free VMWare


Real ApplicationClusters

oss.oracle.como endpoint – firewire disk emulationo OCFS test, tools etco watchdog driver patcheso libaio – async I/Oo ASMLib – automatic storage managero compatability – for unsupported Linux distroso NIC failover


Tuning ToolsOrasrp (http://oracledba.ru/orasrp/)o session resource profiler, monitoring, tracing sessionsDBTop (http://www.scaleabilities.com/tools.shtml)o Java tool, provides TOP like interface to the databaseo resource intensive, but interactive


Tuning ToolsSQLGotcha (http://www.marcel-jan.nl/oracle/scripts/oracle_script_sqlgotcha.html)o helps you trace a session in Oracle, by tracking

down sid & serial# for youIometer (http://www.iometer.org/)o Linux, Win32, Netware, Solariso stress testingo monitoring


User Interface Toolsrlwrap (http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/)o provides command completion, history for applications

which use the readline() callgqlplus (http://gqlplus.sourceforge.net/)o SQL*Plus replacementphporaadmin (http://phporaadmin.sourceforge.net/)o based on phpMyAdminyasql (http://yasql.sourceforge.net/)o SQL*Plus replacement


Developer Toolsorace (http://orace.sourceforge.net/)o Oracle Code Editor, color editing, debugginghammerora (http://hammerora.sourceforge.net/)o stress test your databaseo perform TPC-C benchmarkso 8i, 9i, 10g


Developer Toolsschemadiff (http://sourceforge.net/projects/schemadiff/)o compare two schemas in a databaseo Perl, DBI, Oracle::DDL libraryTOra (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/)o toolkit for Oracleo PL/SQL debugger, editoro color editingo schema browser


Developer ToolsLOG4PLSQL (http://log4plsql.sourceforge.net/)o uses autonomous transactiono log debug messages to fileso no rollback, exception interruption of messagesutPLSQL (http://utplsql.sourceforge.net/)o Steve Feuerstein’s unit testing frameworkProDBA (http://prodba.sourceforge.net/)o java based color editor, schema browser


Miscellaneous ToolsOraRep (http://www.izzysoft.de/?topic=oracle)o generate nice HTML formatted reportso HTML reports from statspackm2o.pl(http://www.pythian.com/news/papers/m2o.html)o script to migrate from MySQL to Oracle


Open SourceDatabases

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)triggers, stored procs, views, ACID in v5.xMaxDB (http://www.mysql.com/products/maxdb/)MySQL for SAP implementationsFirebird (http://firebird.sourceforge.net/)based on Interbase, runs on Win32, Linux, HPUX,Solaris, FreeBSDtriggers, stored procs, views, ACID



Postgres (http://www.postgresql.org/)triggers, views, stored procs, ACIDIngres (http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres)



Unlikely to follow the Linux path to ubiquityFollow a different historyMost clients who are using MySQL want to switch to OracleVLDB + Data Warehousing features very limitedBackup, Standby, HA are non-trivialWill continue to feed the low-end market


Open SourceSoftwareRepositories

http://sourceforge.neto cvs, downloads, homepages, forums etchttp://freshmeat.neto best repository of Open Source softwareo search by keywords, categorieso sort by popularity, relevanceo links to homepage, contact developerso license details


Misc. Scripts + ToolsPete Finnigan (http://petefinnigan.com)Tom Kyte (http://asktom.oracle.com)Miracle (http://www.miracleas.dk/)OakTable (http://oaktable.net)http://www.trivadis.ch/e/knowhow/downloads/index.asp


Various ListsOracle-L (http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l)Lazy DBA (http://www.lazydba.com/)usenet: comp.databases.oracle.serverusenet: comp.databases.oracle.misc


RecommendedWeblogs

AMIS Tech Corner (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/)David Aldridge (http://oraclesponge.blogspot.com/)Niall Litchfield (http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/)Mark Rittman (http://www.rittman.net/)


RecommendedWeblogs

Oracle + Open Source (http://oracleopensource.com)Pete Finnigan(http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/entries/)


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