Welcome to Ed Barlow's Database Stuff

The Site For Database Administrators

This page started as the Sybase Free Software Site but is now home to the Generic Enterprise Manager.
We continue to distribute two widely used free packages for Sybase ASE and Microsoft SQL Server - our
Extended System Stored Procedure Library and our Database Backup and Maintenance Package.
You can also find Latest GEM News.


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A Complete Toolkit For Database Administrators


The Generic Enterprise Manager or GEM is an open source server management toolkit for Database Administrators. GEM is our solution to managing many Database Servers without a lot of stress.

  • Server Monitoring And Alarming
  • Configuration Reporting and Auditing
  • Maintenance Plan based Server Backup
  • "Swiss army knife" set of command line utilities
  • Extended System Stored Procedure Library.
  • Central Monitoring Station Architecture
  • Easy Setup
  • Database Support: Sybase & SQL Server
  • Host Support: Win32, Linux, and Unix systems
  • Based on 15+ Years of free software
  • Open source perl

GEM is a feature rich, low cost package that is easy to install, configure, and manage. GEM uses a small footprint, centralized, agent less architecture that has minimal server impact and will completely revolutionize the way you perform system administration.

GEM automates the routine parts of server management. It monitors your systems and notifies you of problems before your users do. GEM configuration auditing can reveal serious issues before they become a problem. For example, a database backup checker reads system logs to ensure your backups succeed. GEM gives small and mid sized companies the tools that up until now only the very largest companies possessed.

GEM provides a simple, complete solution to help you manage your Database Servers and associated Windows, Unix, and Linux systems. While GEM provides comprehensive operating system level monitoring and alarming, the strength of GEM is database infrastructure management. GEM is designed for database administrators, by database administrators.

GEM is a non-invasive, agent less system that runs on a central monitoring station. Nothing runs on your remote systems. Even our backup solution runs centrally. You will need a Win32 monitoring station if you are using GEM with Win32 systems, and a Unix monitoring station if you are using GEM on Unix. GEM will install our excellent system stored procedure library on all your database servers.

We welcome further inquiries via email at barlowedward@hotmail.com and provide the following links to our detailed on-line documentation.

Thank You
Ed Barlow

The Complete
GEM Documentation
The Slide Show GEM Feature List
Download GEM
 
Introduction To GEM How To Install Getting Started
Batch Jobs Overview GEM Screenshots Server Maintenance
Utilities Guide The GEM Console System Procedures
FAQ and Change Log Common Libraries Pricing

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