> Most of the scripts that I now run as monitors will send an email when a > problem is detected. > The relevant information will be included, server, error, time, etc. > > There are some exceptions. I still email daily security reports from each DB. While reading it daily is tedious, patterns develop. From these patterns, I can usually "sense" when something changes if I start getting ORA-1 errors on an unexpected table or at an unexpected time, for example. Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l