Thanks for info Cyndie.

Kelly Root
Cyndie Behrens wrote:
>
> Subject:Oracle Agent for NT
>
> >From:         "Kelly J. Root" <kroot1 AT TUELECTRIC DOT COM>
> >Organization: Texas Utilities,Inc
> >Subject:      Oracle Agent for Nt
> >To:           ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >
> >We are in the process of setting up a Tivoli environment with NT as the
> >operating system. The database will be Oracle but on NT. Will IBM come
> >out with an Oracle Agent like the one for AIX?
> >
> >Has anyone used the Oracle Agent for AIX? If so did you like it? Is it
> >worth $3,400? I'm trying to convince mgmt that it is worth it.
>
> Kelly, I'm behind on email so I'm sorry for the slow response and you
> may have already received an answer.  The ADSM Connect Agent for Oracle
> is the interface to Oracle's EBU....it is the only way to get EBU to work
> with ADSM.  EBU does not work by itself...it will not back up to disk or
> tape directly...you need to have a storage manager like ADSM.
>
> Our next platforms for EBU support are Solaris and HP.  NT would probably
> be after that.  This is not an official IBM announcement, but just some
> information on trends and direction.
>
> There are two other viable online backup (hot backup)
> alternatives today for Oracle on NT support with ADSM:
> 1) alter tablespace with ADSM commands (script-oriented approach)
> 2) DataTools SQL-BackTrack (GA planned in May)
>    - much more automated, easy to use, additional function such as true
>      incremental backup
> thanks,
> Cyndie Behrens
> IBM San Jose