Hi David! On 06/22/2010 01:52 PM, David Robillard wrote: >> Which monitoring software are you using? > > We use Nagios http://nagios.org/ with several Oracle plugins from > http://exchange.nagios.org/ > [...] > > Let me know if you need more info. > Yes please! I have used Nagios extensively in the past, and found that the Windows NRPE was _very_ unreliable, i.e. simply crashed far too often. You said you are using Nagios to monitor Windows environments-out of curiosity, what endpoint did you install to listen to nagios checks? Or are you using passive checks? Thanks for any insights! Martin -- Martin Bach OCM 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l