On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:07 PM, John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Some more "what": > > What about monitoring basic infrastructure components such as Oracle > OID, Oracle Names, DNS, DHCP, etc. ? > OID and Oracle Names would be good to monitor. Any specific suggestions as to what to monitor? I think DNS and DHCP are out of scope for this discussion. Sure, some DBA's may have to deal with this themselves, but it is still an Network Infrastructure function, not database. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist