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Alert Manager Responsibility

To Define a new alert. To Run an alert.

To choose the email server.

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What?
Oracle Alert is a complete Exception Control and Reporting System. Oracle Alert facilitates the flow of information within your organization by letting you create entities called Alerts to monitor your business information and to notify you of the information you want.
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Alerts are of TWO types:

Event.
Periodic

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Whats the difference?

Event Alert:
Notifies immediately as the EVENT occurs . What we need to specify?
The event to be monitored. The selection criteria; i.e., the SQL statement. The action to be taken.
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Periodic Alert:
Checks the database as per the schedule we define. What we need to specify?
The Frequency. The selection criteria; i.e., the SQL statement. The action to be taken.

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Whats an Event?
An event can be Insert/Update/Delete on any particular record(s) of the database.
An Event Alert is similar to any database trigger. The only difference is in the choice of Actions provided. In a trigger, this action can only be to Insert/Update/Delete any records from the database; that is, running an SQL statement script.
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What can the Action be?

Oracle Alert can be configured to perform any or all of the following functions: Sending the retrieved information to someone in a (reasonably formatted) e-mail message . Invocation of a
Concurrent Program, Operating Script, SQL Statement Script.
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Other important features:

Keep us informed of exception conditions through a single point; our electronic mail. Take predefined actions when it finds exceptions in our database, without user intervention. Take the actions we specify, depending upon our response to an alert message.
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Other important features: contd

Perform routine database tasks automatically, according to the schedule we define. Be fully integrated with our e-mail system: it is configurable with Oracle Office, Unix mail, Windows NT mail, and VMS mail. Allows definition of distribution list, so that one can avoid typing the same set of recipients for many messages.
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Other important features: contd

Alert can send messages or perform predefined actions in an action set when important events occur. Alerts can be defined to any of the Oracle Applications; viz., Oracle Financials, Oracle Manufacturing, Oracle Human Resources, or Oracle Public Sector Financials application as well as any custom Oracle application.

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Other Important Features: contd

Easy to define. Easy customization (of Frequency, Actions, etc.) Actions for singular exception, a combination of exceptions, or no-exception condition.

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Other important features: contd

Alert History is maintained. Action Escalation: e.g., if an alert has to be defined to send mails to for credit card defaulters. The severity of the mails can be made to vary depending on the period for which the defaulter has defaulted. This means that different Actions can be taken based on practically any parameter. In this example, the parameter was (sysdatelast_date_for_payment).
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Two types of Actions:

Oracle Alert automatically determines whether to perform detail actions or summary action depending on the number of exceptions. Detail Action: Individual action is taken for each exception. E.g., Mails are sent to each defaulter individually.
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Summary Action: Action is taken collectively per type of exception. E.g., A common mail is sent to a set of defaulters.

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Other important features: contd

Self-Referencing Alerts: (DATE_LAST_CHECKED):
This is another useful feature where the alert leaves the timestamp whenever it is run. This information can be used by the same when it is going to be run the next time.

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A sample Mail from Alert:

=== G1: New Item List === Org FD GropCode Global Item ProdCode Type Date Status ---- ---- -------- ------------------------- -------- ----- ------ ---------04N X81 LZ3CB CDT-TEST-ITEM 123 FG 020528 ACTIVE

43A X81 LZ3CB

43S X81 LZ3CB 46X X81 LZ3CB 49C X81 LZ3CB 580 X81 LZ3CB

CDT-TEST-ITEM
CDT-TEST-ITEM CDT-TEST-ITEM CDT-TEST-ITEM CDT-TEST-ITEM

123
123 123 123 123

FG 020528 ACTIVE
FG FG FG FG 020528 ACTIVE 020528 ACTIVE 020528 ACTIVE 020529 ACTIVE

A01 X81 LZ3CB

GLO X35 AA GLO X81 LZ3CB GLO X85 GLO TSB X35 AA TSB X81 LZ3CB

CDT-TEST-ITEM
TEST-ORD CDT-TEST-ITEM FG FG 1234

123
1234 FG 123

FG 020529 ACTIVE
020529 INACTIVE FG 020528 ACTIVE

C-ITEM D-ITEM TEST-ORD CDT-TEST-ITEM

020528 ENGINEER 020528 ENGINEER FG 123 020529 INACTIVE FG 020528 ACTIVE

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