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Alerts

Oracle Alert gives you an immediate view of the critical

activity in your database. It sends Notification for any
unusual business events you need to know.

Basic Business Needs

 Lets you specify the exception conditions you want to
know about, as often as you want to know about them.
 Informs you of exception conditions by sending alert
messages through a single application - your
electronic mail.
 Takes actions you specify, based upon your response
to an alert message.
 Automatically performs routine database tasks,
according to a schedule you define.

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 Exceptions & Alert Action Types

Exception
 An exception is a specified condition found during
an alert check.
 For example, an alert checking for users who did
not change their passwords within the designated
time finds five users that meet the criteria. Each
user found is an exception.

Action Types
 Send an e-mail message
 Submit a concurrent program request
 Run a SQL statement script
 Run an operating system script

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 Alert Types

Event Alert
Event alerts immediately notify you of activity in your
database as it happens. You define what a database event
is an insert or an update to a table and Oracle Alert
informs you when it happens. You specify the following:

 A database event that you want to monitor, that is, an

insert and/or an update to a specific database table.
 A SQL Select statement that retrieves specific database
information as a result of the database event.
 As a result of Alert action you can send a mail, running
a concurrent program, running an operating script, or
running a SQL statement script.

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 Alert Types

Periodic Alert
A Periodic alert periodically reports key information
according to a schedule that you define. Rather than
notify you of immediate exceptions in the database like
an event alert, a periodic alert scans for specific database
information specified by its SQL SELECT statement at
scheduled intervals. You can specify the following:

 A SQL Select statement that retrieves specific

database information.
 The Frequency that you want the periodic alert to run
the SQL statement.
 Actions that you want Oracle Alert to perform once it
runs the SQL statement.

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 Alert Action Level

An alert action is an action you want your alert to

perform. An alert action can fall under one of three
levels:

 Detail action
 An action that represents one exception found in the
database.
 Summary action
 An action that represents multiple exceptions found
in the database.
 No exception action
 An action that represents no exceptions found in the
database.

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 Using and Customizing Predefined Alerts

Using Predefine Alerts

 All predefined alerts are initially disabled. You
must enable the alerts you want to use.
 Select the Oracle Alert Manager responsibility
when you start Oracle Applications to view or use
a predefined alert.

 Customizing Predefined Alerts

 Electronic Mail Integration
 Standard Alert Message Text
 Alert Frequency
 Alert History

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 Define Alert

Alert -> Define

Import file for SQL

Export SQL

Verify SQL Statement

Run SQL Statement

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 Define Alert

Alert Frequency

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 List of Alert Frequency

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 Event Alert

Output Variables

Input Variables

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 Define Input Variables

Implicit Input variables are :ROWID, :MAILID, :ORG_ID and

:DATE_LAST_CHECKED.

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 Define Output Variables

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 Define Oracle Schema

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 Enter Action and Action Details

Summary

Detail

No Exception

 For Summary action level Oracle Alert performs action once

for each unique combination of exceptions found.
 Detail action such that Oracle Alert performs that action for
each individual exception found.
 If there is No Exception found then also Alert can perform
any action like e-mail/running concurrent program or a script.

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Enter Action Details

Action Type - Message

Send a Notification to concern persons via E-mail

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 Action Details

Action Type – Concurrent Program

Run a specific Concurrent program as part of an action when

an Exception occur.

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 Action Details

Action Type – Operating System Script

Run a specific Script as part of an action when an Exception

occur.

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 Define Action Set

Abort
Set
Member

Finally, add Action in the members tab to complete the Alert

definition.

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