A New Oracle "Alarm" Standard

Hi there,

I'm currently doing my 4th year project at University in Scotland. As you maybe guessed, it has a bit to with Oracle so I was hoping one of you Oracle guru types could maybe point me in the correct direction for something. I would be extremely greatful:

I'm making an application in Java that can monitor an oracle database and warn the dba when things go wrong eg, db falls over, improper logon attempt. Now I know that perhaps creating an external application to do things that oracle can internally might not be the smartest thing to try, but thats what I've been asked and there are a couple of good reasons for doing so (I promise!!).

Now, I don't know how to do this other than via PL/SQL and triggers and the like, but this has problems that rule this approach out. So, I have been told in rather cryptic terms about an industry standard that oracle conforms to that will warn when somethingbad happens. Does anyone know anything about such a standard? Or does anyone else have any ideas about how I can get my warnings to the application!!

I really do hpe someone can just take a sec to point me in the general direction cos times beginning to run down and I've been stuck on this for weeks. I'm beginning to get a bit scared about it all. Please help!!

Many thanks

Simon Received on Thu Aug 01 2002 - 12:48:03 CEST