Re: Alert Log Monitoring / Notification

From: Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 8 Mar 2004 19:46:32 -0800
Message-ID: <b3cb12d6.0403081946.69eb020@posting.google.com>

"Charles Davis" <cdavis10717_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:<Y_ydnUWWlpL5adHd4p2dnA_at_comcast.com>...
>
> I would like to be notified almost immediately if Oracle 9.2 writes certain
> messages to the Alert Log, such as any of the 'unable to extend' messages.
> An email sent at the moment of the error would be best.
>
> Can this be done somehow within Oracle v9.2?? If so, please describe it or
> point me to the docs on this.
>
> I already have an external alert log monitor process, but am looking for
> something more immediate that its polling interval.

Hi, Charles,

You can use the tail -f method to achieve this. Look at "How to get alert by reading log files" here

http://rootshell.be/~yong321/computer/logfile.html

Yong Huang Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 21:46:32 CST