This document provides an overview of Oracle Alert, which allows users to define alerts to monitor databases and take specified actions. It describes the different types of alerts (event alerts for immediate notifications and periodic alerts for scheduled checks), the types of exceptions and actions that can be defined, and how to customize predefined alerts or define new alerts by specifying conditions to check for, actions to take, variables, and more. The goal of Oracle Alert is to notify users of important database events and exceptions through defined alerts and actions.

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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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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.
Alert Action Level

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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
Using and Customizing Predefined Alerts

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Define Alert
Import file for SQL
Export SQL
Verify SQL Statement
Run SQL Statement
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Alert -> Define

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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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