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You've just finished a hard day's worth of work and are ready to pack up and go home when something goes wrong with your Oracle Weblogic environment. As you set down your bag and get ready to diagnose, you wonder: Why isn't there a way to know this would happen ahead of time?

Well, what if I were to tell you...there is a way?

Enter Oracle Guardian, a tool that many support customers have been curious and asking about.

This tool, which is supported for Oracle Weblogic Server version 8.1 and later, analyzes configurations in order to detect potential issues based on what are called "Signature Patterns" (commonly known as either Signatures or Patterns)

These patterns are based on several sources of system configuration knowledge: actual SR's, bugs and defects, critical path updates, and also customer discoveries and best practices.

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To Download and learn more, go to the Oracle Guardian Resource Center in My Oracle Support (Note 749952.1)

For even more info, you could also checkout this link

Want even more? Got something to say? Well, there’s even a Guardian blog available for you to share your thoughts.

Isn't it great to solve problems before they occur?

The My Oracle Support Team would like to believe that diagnosing problems is a uniform experience across the Oracle tech stack in your IT environment but we know that might not be the truth.

Some say diagnosing issues for the Database is considerably more difficult than diagnosing issues for Middleware or Apps, and some say it depends on which App and version you’re talking about (say, R12 Financials) and others still say that there is no one product or family of products that stands out.

So we dare ask, what do you find to be the most difficult issues to diagnose?

In a previous blog entry we wondered aloud whether there were specific components or product areas that had problems or issues that were found to be more difficult to diagnose. One main point of discussion that arose from those comments were related to the difficulty of assessing issues in EBS when patching was involved.

However, the point was also brought up that everyone is good at what they do…a DB person will find DB issues easier to diagnose, and EBS person EBS issues, and so on.

But we dare ask again…what DB issues are DBA’s struggling with the most? What’s the hardest thing for a middleware guy or gal to diagnose? What do HRMS or Financials gurus struggle in implementing? Are diagnostics for each of these areas roughly the same….or does performance stand out in one whereas full-blown errors and stoppages stand out in another? Let us know!

Oh yeah, almost forgot, Happy Friday!