Perhaps there is a "poor mans" way of doing this.  The startup trigger
could fire a procedure that inserts a row into a table and then sleeps for
1 minute before doing the same again.  Effectively it would create a ping
in the table, which you could then analyze / graph to display uptimes.

The next logical step would be to increase the intelligence of the
procedure.  The table storing the statistic could consist of two columns -
uptime and downtime.  When the startup trigger fires it creates a new row
in the table with both uptime and downtime set to sysdate.  It then sleeps
for a minute before updating downtime for the most recent record (either
remember a primary key or search for max(uptime)).  This would be much
easier to understand when the database was stopped / started.

Of course depending on your accuracy requirement, granularity could be
changed to every 5 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever.

Hopefully that gives some ideas though.  Of course the 3rd party monitors
that Jared mentions are worth considering if the database is considered
critical.  In that case the number one requirement is probably the ability
to page / SMS / email when it sees the database is down.

Regards,
     Mark.



                                                                                       
                            
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Ethan,

That records the startup times, but does not record the time
that the database was unavailable.

What's needed is a 3rd party monitor that is not dependent
on the database being up to record metrics.

Jared





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Just a thought here for a script I think would be handy but I haven't had
time to write.

It is would be a simple procedure you could call to get the service level
for a particular database.  I suppose you would have to have some sort of
way of defining normal outage windows.  Basically a startup trigger would
log the times in a table.  You should also check the startup time against
the last startup time periodically to ensure the trigger always fires.
Somehow a procedure/function should be able to use this information to
report the service level for the database within the last
(week/month/quarter/year).

I suppose I will get around to it eventually but if anyone else wants to
get
started on it I won't mind!

Thanks,
Ethan
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