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E-Mail notification When There is a New Entry in ALERT log

Mar 25, 2003
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>>Script Language and Platform: Oracle
Most of the Alert scripts found in the Books sends duplicate mails to the user.This script is developed to avoid the duplication. It consists of two scripts.Alert_master.sh is the main script which will call alert.sh for all instances in your server.Please edit the scripts to suit your environments.

Author: Antony Raj

#!/bin/ksh
#Program : alert_master.sh
#Author : Antony Raj created on 03/17/2003
#Document : This is the main program,checks alert for all instances
#
SCRIPTLOC=/cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/alert_scripts
export SCRIPTLOC
for i in `cat /cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/oratab_dhp|cut -d: -f1`
do
ora_stat=`ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep ora_smon_$i|wc -l`
ora_chk=`expr $ora_stat`
if [ $ora_chk -eq 1 ]
then
$SCRIPTLOC/alert.sh $i
fi
done
#!/bin/ksh
#Program : alert.sh
#Author : Antony Raj Created on 03/17/2003
#Document : This is the sub-program called by alert_master.sh
#Purpose : Send E-Mail notification,if there is an ORA- error in Alert Log
#
SCRIPTDIR=/cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/alert_scripts
ORACLE_SID=$1
export ORACLE_SID
if [ -z “$1” ]
then
echo “Usage: alert.sh ”
exit 99
fi
stat=`ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep ora_smon_$1|wc -l`
ora_stat=`expr $stat`
if [ $ora_stat -eq 0 ]
then
exit 0
fi
ORACLE_HOME=`cat /cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/oratab_dhp|grep $ORACLE_SID|cut -d: -f2`
export ORACLE_HOME
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -s ‘/ as sysdba’ << !
@/cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/alert_scripts/get_dict_parm
exit
!
ALRT_CHK=`cat /cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/alert_scripts/alert_$1_dir.log| 
grep ?|wc -l`
alrt_stat=`expr $ALRT_CHK`
if [ $alrt_stat -eq 1 ]
then
ALERT_DIR=$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log 
else
ALERT_DIR=`cat /cluster/dhp/oracle/erp_scripts/alert_scripts/alert_$1_dir.log`
fi
export ALERT_DIR
cd $SCRIPTDIR

if [ -f $SCRIPTDIR/cntfile_$1.log ]
then
chk=`cat $SCRIPTDIR/cntfile_$1.log|wc -l`
chk1=`expr $chk`
if [ $chk1 -gt 0 ]
then 
cat $SCRIPTDIR/cntfile_$1.log|read num
else
num=0
fi
else
touch $SCRIPTDIR/cntfile_$1.log
num=0
fi
if [ $num -gt 0 ]
then
cd $ALERT_DIR
cat alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log |wc -l |read ct1
sz=`expr $ct1 - $num`
if [ $sz -eq 0 ]
then
exit
fi
cd $ALERT_DIR
cat alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log |tail -$sz|grep ORA- |cat > /tmp/alerterr_$1.log 2>$SCRIPTDIR/error_$1_.log
ora_cnt=`cat /tmp/alerterr_$1.log|wc -l`
ora_num=`expr $ora_cnt`
if [ $ora_num -gt 0 ]
then
cat /tmp/alerterr_$1.log|/usr/bin/mailx -s “Alert Log Errors for the database $ORACLE_SID” araj2@csc.com dliu4@csc.com
fi
cat alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log |wc -l|read cnt
echo $cnt > $SCRIPTDIR/cntfile_$1.log
exit
else
cd $ALERT_DIR
cat alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log | grep ORA- |cat > /tmp/alerterr_$1.log
ora_cnt=`cat /tmp/alerterr_$1.log|wc -l`
ora_num=`expr $ora_cnt`
if [ $ora_num -gt 0 ]
then
cat /tmp/alerterr_$1.log|/usr/bin/mailx -s “Alert Log Errors for the database $ORACLE_SID” araj2@csc.com dliu4@csc.com
fi
cat alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log | wc -l |read cnt
echo $cnt > $SCRIPTDIR/cntfile_$1.log
fi



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