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What are Oracle Alerts?

Oracle Alerts are used to monitor unusual or critical activity within a designated database.The flexibility of ALERTS allows a database administrator the ability to monitor activities fromtablespace sizing to activities associated with particular applications (i.e. AP, GL, FA). Alertscan be created to monitor a process in the database and to notify a specific individual of thestatus of the process.

What types of Oracle Alerts are there?

There are 2 types of Alerts: Event Alerts and Periodic Alerts.a) EVENT ALERTS are triggered when an event or change is made to a table in thedatabase.b) PERIODIC ALERTS are activated on a scheduled basis to monitor database activities or changes.

What types of actions can be generated when an Alert is triggered?

When an alert is executed, the alert can send an email message, run aconcurrent program, run an operating system script, or run aSQL statement script. Using response processing, Oracle Alerts cansolicit a response from a specific individual and perform an actionbased on the response that it receives.

Can I build an Alert to run with my custom applications or tables?

Event or Periodic Alerts can work with any custom application, as

long as the application is properly registered within OracleApplications.

Which Email packages work with Alerts?

Since 11i.RUP4, all email is routed through Workflow Mailer.

Can Alerts be triggered using other Tools? (i.e. other than Oracle Forms or concurrent programs)

Oracle Event Alerts can only be triggered from an application thathas been registered in Oracle Applications. Alerts cannot

be triggered via SQL updates or deletes to a table.

What is Response Processing?

Response processing is a component of Alerts which allows therecipients of an alert to reply with a message and have theapplications take some action based on the response.

Do I need Oracle Applications to use Alerts?

Yes. Oracle Applications is required to create and run Alerts usingAlert Manager responsibility.