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Open Source Toolsfor Oracle DBAs

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IntroductionNew technology and possibilitiesCommunityExchange of ideasFreedom from licensing issues

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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

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System Monitoringwith Nagios

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

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System Monitoringwith Nagios

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System Monitoringwith Nagios

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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

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Version Control withCVS

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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Real ApplicationClusters

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Open SourceDatabases

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

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Open SourceDatabases

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

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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

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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

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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

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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/)

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RecommendedWeblogs

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

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