RE: alert log retention
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 09:36:35 -0400
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I have a cron script that renames the alert log every Sunday morning, and keeps 6 weeks worth.
One nice thing about keeping the live alert log small is if you wish you can over time implement some jobs, perhaps via EM that help you see all the alert logs at the same time. I can run a job that reads from an external alert log table on every database and the output is in one file where I can page through.
I modified that though from an idea I found I believe on this list that uses a pipelined function to display the data -- and that function now calls another that filters out noise Like:
'Incremental restore complete of datafile' I have about 20 such statements it skips, so I can scan the data fairly quickly especially on Mondays. Of course you can always just select * from ext_alert_log and get everything. It's a good start in creating an external table as there is only one field, and there is actually a convenient use for it. You just have to make it a convention and put it in every database.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ram Raman
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 2:01 PM
To: ORACLE-L
Subject: alert log retention
List,
How long do the listers keep their alert log data for? does it vary in production vs dev environments.
Thanks.
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Received on Mon Jun 03 2013 - 15:36:35 CEST