In addition, you can choose to be notified through electronic mail or page. To further automate problem detection and correction, Oracle Enterprise Manager can be specified to perform tasks in response to an event. For example, you can register an event to monitor the space usage of a tablespace and, if necessary, run a fix-it job to allocate a new datafile to the tablespace. Proactive management of an event ensures that a problem is corrected before it noticeably impacts end-users. Autonomous Intelligent Agent You can localize DBA task execution, so that tasks are completed even when a crucial part of the network is down.
Localized tasks are dependable since all job processing is performed by the agent.
For example, if you schedule a job on a node, the job will be executed locally at the specified time. Since it is executed locally, the job will run even if a network outage occurs between the node and the Console. The messages are saved until they can be delivered, even if a network connection is down. Each administrator's privileges are stored in a credentials file and used by the Oracle Enterprise Manager to manage your connections. The security management is flexible enough so that you can change it to suit the security roles and policies of the system.