Email notification using Oracle Job

Question

Hi,
I am trying to setup a email notification job using Oracle 11gR2. Per online documnetation I have done the following setup, but the email notification job is failing. If you guys have any ideas, please assist.
Step 1:
BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.set_scheduler_attribute('email_server', 'oracle.kotaise.com:25');
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.set_scheduler_attribute('email_sender', '[email protected]');
END;
Step2:
BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_job (
    job_name        => 'email_notification_job',
    job_type        => 'PLSQL_BLOCK',
    job_action      => 'BEGIN NULL; END;',
    start_date      => SYSTIMESTAMP,
    repeat_interval => 'freq=minutely; bysecond=0',   
    enabled         => TRUE);
END;
Step 3:
BEGIN
DBMS_SCHEDULER.ADD_JOB_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION (
  job_name   =>  'email_notification_job',
  recipients =>  '[email protected]',
  sender     =>  '[email protected]',
  subject    =>  'Scheduler Job Notification-%job_owner%.%job_name%-%event_type%',
  body       =>   '%event_type% occurred at %event_timestamp%. %error_message%',
  events     =>  'JOB_FAILED, JOB_BROKEN, JOB_DISABLED, JOB_SCH_LIM_REACHED');
END;
Step 4:
I have created the following  job that executes a package which executes a package "test_package.pdata". This package is not created yet, becuase I wanted to see whether the email notification is working or not. As expected the "TEST_JOB" is failed becuase of missing package. But the email notification job "'email_notification_job'", which runs every minute, failed to send an email notification.
BEGIN
  SYS.DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB
       job_name        => 'test_job'
      ,start_date      => SYSTIMESTAMP
      ,repeat_interval => 'freq=minutely; bysecond=0'
      ,end_date        => NULL
      ,job_class       => 'DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS'
      ,job_type        => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
      ,job_action      => 'BEGIN test_package.pdata; END;'
      ,comments        => NULL
      ,enabled         => TRUE
end;
I have queried the DBA_SCHEDULER_NOTIFICATIONS table, and I see that the email notification job did not started.
JOB_NAME                                      RECIPIENT                     EVENT
EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_JOB      [email protected]      JOB_FAILED
EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_JOB      [email protected]      JOB_BROKEN
EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_JOB      [email protected]      JOB_SCH_LIM_REACHED
EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_JOB      [email protected]      JOB_DISABLED
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
The DBA_SCHEDULER_NOTIFICATIONS show the notification settings, not the notifications that were sent. To see that, run the follwoing query:
select queue,
       msg_state,
       enq_time,
       enq_user_id,
       deq_time,
       deq_user_id,
       t.user_data.event_type,
       t.user_data.object_owner,
       t.user_data.object_name,
       t.user_data.event_timestamp
  from sys.AQ$SCHEDULER$_EVENT_QTAB t;
Does it show anything for your job?