Yes, I realize we *should* be doing that, but our monitoring tool won't, and since the logs "just stopped" (literally) it can't find any info. I'm guessing there must be something... From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:03 PM To: Walker, Jed S Cc: Guillermo Alan Bort; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: stale ASM alert logs Well the 11g route would be ADRCI SET HOME SHOW ALERT .. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Walker, Jed S <Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Good thinking but that isn't it. I did "show parameter background" and it is the directory I'm checking in. It doesn't appear the instance itself thinks it is somewhere else. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l