can you post when the article is done. I am writing shell scripting to send me email alerts now. -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> All I'm going to be talking about the perils of email notifications for Oracle databases next week - namely that you either don't monitor what you should, or you get drowned in alerts, often repeated. I see two basic alternatives to this approach - the dashboard approach (see the eye candy thread) or being alerted on the detection of a problem, and then not until it is resolved. If anyone uses the second approach I'd love to hear what tools you use. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info