Correct. Just change the warning or critical threshold for the Alert Log->Generic Alert Log Error metric to be ORA-04031 or to CYA you could use " .*ORA-04031". To test you can do what Niall suggests below or simply edit the alert log, copy a timestamp from a previous line, modify it to be current timestamp and then insert a ORA-04031 line below it. Thanks, Finn -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:08 PM To: mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: Format for monitoring generic alert log messages in 12c It should be a standard perl regular expression (and therefore subject to http://xkcd.com/208/ : ) ) In other words a simple addition should be fine from memory You can test by a call to sys.dbms_system.ksdwrt(2, 'MESSAGE'); where message is appropriately crafted to match an oracle err message. . On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Michael Schmitt <mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to monitor the alert log for ORA-04031 in Grid control (and > nothing else), and was wondering if someone could help me with the > format needed for that. > > Is it as easy as adding ORA-04031* ? > > I would just test it, but not exactly sure how I can cause an > ORA-04031 on demand > > Thanks in advance > > Mike > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, >>> professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for >>> the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the >>> information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the >>> sender. -IP1 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l