monitoring jobs (dbms_job)

  • From: "Pakhutkin, Maxim (Max)" <maxim.pakhutkin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:31:20 -0400

Has anyone tried monitoring the run duration of jobs scheduled with dbms_jobs 
over time to determine trends? I'm thinking of running some pl/sql in intervals 
that will, in general, do the following: looking at jobs that are scheduled to 
run at least that often, note their next_date and then, when the monitored job 
runs next time, compared the noted next time to the values in last_date. The 
description of the dba_jobs view gives me doubts however, as it doesn't seem to 
correspond to reality in respect to last_date, last_sec columns. My observation 
has been that last_sec shows when the job last completed, but the view 
description says it shows when the job last started.

The business need is to prevent jobs from running into the scheduled cold 
backups and interfering with them. I've searched the archive and ask tom, but 
couldn't come up with any direct hits. If anyone has tried this before, I would 
appreciate if you could point out any non-trivial issues you've encountered, 
thanks.

mostly 9i's with some 8i's thrown in on solaris.

Max Pakhutkin 
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