You can use the external procedure feature to call an external program that gathers the information you want to make available within Oracle. If you ran a shell script or program that collected the data you wanted and wrote it to a file accessible to Oracle you could use the external table feature to allow the data to be selected from within Oracle. -- Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148 ________________________________ From: SHEEHAN, JEREMY [mailto:JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:36 PM To: Powell, Mark D; oracle list Subject: RE: OS Information from Database Unfortunately we're not using ASM. Disappointing.... Any other ideas? Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Powell, Mark D Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:27 PM To: oracle list Subject: RE: OS Information from Database If you are using ASM to manage your disks then yes there are a slew of ASM views that you can use like v$asm_diskgroup. See the Oracle version# Reference manual. -- Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SHEEHAN, JEREMY Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:15 PM To: oracle list Subject: OS Information from Database Hey folks, I know there is the V$OSSTAT view where you can see the current state of the OS, but is there a view where you can see the state of the disk drives (as in capacity, % full or bytes used vs bytes total) from the db? I've got a feeling that there isn't, but I'd figured that I would check. Thanks in advance! Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.