> Sounds like a good idea if you can get all the alerts in one place by doing > that but I don't use Grid Control - only the individual DB Consoles, so it's > not an option for me. I'll keep it in mind if I ever decide to go through > the effort to implement Grid Control, but so far I haven't found any > compelling reason to deploy another DB/App to manage. > > Thanks, > Brandon GC will alert me when the DB and/or DB server's down. An procedure on the DB server can't do that. Of course, if the network and/or mail server goes... ;) Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l