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Before you define a periodic set, make sure you define one or more periodic alerts. See: Creating a Periodic Alert.

   To define a periodic set:

1. Navigate to the Periodic Sets form.

2. Enter the name of the application that owns the alerts you want to define as a set.

You can define alerts as members of a set only if they are periodic alerts owned by this application. However, the Oracle Alert Manager responsibility can define and check a periodic set that includes periodic alerts from any application, provided that Oracle Alert is the application you select in this field.

3. Enter the name of your periodic alert set. The set name cannot be the same as the name of any other periodic set or alert owned by this application. See: Oracle Alert Naming Conventions.

4. Enter a description of your periodic set (up to 240 characters).

5. Assign the periodic alerts to the set in the Periodic Set Members block. You can include as many periodic alerts in your periodic set as you want, and you can even include periodic sets in a periodic set.

6. Oracle Alert automatically enters the next available number in the Seq field. You can accept the default number or change it. A sequence number need not be unique unless you prefer a particular check order. Oracle Alert checks all of the sequence 1 members first, then all of the sequence 2 members, then all of the sequence 3 members, and so on.

7. Enter the name of the application that owns the alert in the Application field. If the application that owns the periodic set is any application other that Oracle Alert, this application is the same as the application that owns the periodic set. You can only enter another application in this field if the application that owns the periodic set is Oracle Alert.

8. Enter the name of a periodic alert or periodic set in the Name field. You can choose from the list of periodic alert and periodic sets owned by the application that owns the set. You cannot add a disabled alert to a periodic set.

The Type field displays Alert if the member is a single alert, and Periodic Set if the member is another periodic set.

9. Check Enable if your want Oracle Alert to check this member when checking the periodic set. If you uncheck this check box, Oracle Alert ignores this member when checking this periodic set.

Note: This Enabled check box does not affect the enabled status of the periodic alert itself as defined in the Alerts form or of the periodic set itself as defined in the Periodic Sets block.

10. Enter a current or future date in the End Date field if you want Oracle Alert to disable this periodic set member by a certain date. After this date, Oracle Alert does not check this alert or set when checking the periodic set.

11. Save your work.

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