Once a Day Monitoring Activities

It is recommended that once each day you perform the following:

Daily Examination of Logs for Abnormalities

Examine the following logs for any abnormalities once a day, preferably near the end of the day. In each of these logs, <MMDD> indicates the month and day. Each log is kept for seven days. For more information about these logs, refer to the Database Administrator's Guide. You can view the logs using the GUI or you can use any text editor.

Daily Determination of Success or Failure of Backup

Each day, check the backup log from the previous day on each server (as you can see from the timestamps in Figure 1 and Figure 2, backups generally begin a few minutes before midnight). Ensure that the backup logs contain text similar to that shown in the referenced figures. If you need help interpreting the logs, contact the My Oracle Support (MOS).

If you determine that the automatic backup(s) did not complete successfully, perform a manual backup right away.