Use out of band alerts which are designed for exactly this situation. See https://blogs.oracle.com/EMGC/entry/oracle_enterprise_manager_12c_configuration2 for how to do that in EM12c. If you're not on EM12c ... well, you should be. ;) Pete Pete Sharman Principal Product Manager Enterprise Manager Product Suite 33 Benson Crescent CALWELL ACT 2905 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61262924095 | | Fax: +61262925183 | | Mobile: +61414443449 "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not, it's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long term Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: Prabhu Krishnaswamy [mailto:prabhu_adam@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:43 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: how to alert if EM DB is down Hi Lists, We have an incident occured in our shop wherein our production EM database was crashed due to file system issue. We never received any alert as our em is down. How to setup an alert if EM DB gone south. Please suggest. Thank you Prabhu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l