Final Request for Clarification of Mitigating Alerts & Notifications

Hi
Firstly thank you to Tavi, Frank and Hersh. I really appreciate your speedy responses and it has shone light on this topic for me.
I'd like to summarise to ensure I have clearly understood. The mitigating controls, users, controllers and approvers are maintained in the 'Mitigation' tab.
The alerts are emails and relate to the execution of the defined mitigating controls (reports). If the controls are not executed in defined period an alert will be sent to the monitor to remind them or alert them that this activity is to be performed. The Monitor is the person assigned to run these controls reports in specified period.
The notification logs read from R3 logs and will look specifically for mitigated users. It will check to see if they run a combination of the mitigated transactions e.g. create vendor, raise invoice. If this combination of transactions occur a log will generate with relevant details. My question here is 'are notification logs sent my e mail and who is person to receive them, is it the monitor?' If not, where are they to be found. Is this a resource hungry activity and is it recommended.
Is the Monitor the only role relating to above.
Thanks so much in advance.

Dear Grainne,
You are most welcome!!
Well, you are all corect for your understanding and summarizations.
Regarding your question - 'are notification logs sent my e mail and who is person to receive them, is it the monitor?' If not, where are they to be found. Is this a resource hungry activity and is it recommended?"
1. Yes, the notification would be sent to monitor who would be the person to say whether the User ID being Mitigated has done something wrong or is perfect as per the business governance. The answer to whether this this can be a resource hungry activity depends on the number of mitigated users and the resource requirement would be directly proportional to the number of mitigation Controls you have set up, which can be further drilled down to the number of mitigated or conflivting transactions used by the User and the frequesncy of the same.
2. The answer to whether it is recommended or not is YES for sure, or else there is no purpose for setting up risks analysis and monitoring.
Regards,
Hersh.

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__db_cache_size = 37748736
__pga_aggregate_target = 58720256
yep, I got it! pat1=83886080, pat2=58720256Oracle continued being bounced between shared pool and buffer cache size, and about 1200th execution Oracle suddenly stole some memory from PGA target area to increase db cache size.
(I'm still in dark age on this automatic memory target management of 11g. More research in need!)
I think that this is very clear and natural behavior. I just want to point out that this would result in unwanted catastrophe under special cases, especially with some logic holes and bugs.
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How to configure ML Server to send Alert Notifications by mail?

Is it possible to configure Mountain Lion Server to send out Alert notification by e-mail without enabling full Mail services?
I don't want to run the Mail service on the Server. I'm quite happy with my ISP's mail service. Besides, I have a dynamic public IP address, hence no rDNS entry (so I couldn't run Mail if I wanted to). And I don't have the expertise to configure and maintain the Mail service. But I would like to get the Server to send me any important alert notifications by e-mail.
I have access to an authenticated SMTP server I can use to relay the outbound alert notification emails. But I don't know how to coerce the alert service into using it. Is it possible to do so, or does one need the full-blown Mail service to be configured (with both dovecot and postfix running) in order to get Alerts to be e-mailed?
Thanks for any help.

@MrHoffman,
Thanks for the pointers and suggestions.
The config for my ISP's SMTP server is correct. I specified the port (:465), and double-checked userid/password. It's the same as used by all our e-mail clients (a half-dozen or so on various Macs, iPhones, iPads, Linux boxes), all of which work fine from my LAN.
As for DNS, it seems OK. (I am indebted to you for the excellent series of articles on servers and networking at http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1705 )
The changeip command reports:
The names match. There is nothing to change.
dirserv:success = "success"
However, I should point out that I do not have the DNS service enabled on ML Server. I already have a local DNS running on my gateway router. (it's an instance of the dnsmasq process that is part of Tomato firmware). It has local names defined for all the servers and hosts on my LAN, and provides rDNS for them as well.
However, what I haven't done is enabled the Mail service. You've (slightly) misunderstood the core of my plan. My intent is not simply to secure the local mail server against remote access. I don't want either remote or local users from accessing the mail server. I don't want it listening for POP or IMAP connections from anywhere (on my LAN or remotely). I don't want it receiving inbound mail from anywhere. I don't want it relaying outbound mail for any client on my LAN. All I want the ML Server to be able to do is to send me alerts (by e-mail) when it's in need of attention. Other appliances on my LAN (eg. a NetgearReadyNAS) can send me e-mails when they are unhappy, and I hope I can coerce the ML Server to do the same.
I know I don't have the expertise to operate and maintain my own mail server, and I'm quite happy with the mail service provided by my existing network service provider. Plus, I'm behind a cable modem with a dynamic IP address, so I'm unable to establish my own rDNS record (which I understand is required to handle inbound mail).
It looks like the next step is to turn on the Mail service. But I'm sure it's going to be unhappy since there's no MX record set-up. I was hoping there was a way that ML Server could simply send out its own outbound alerts (using my ISP's SMTP relay) without having the incoming part of the mail service active. But perhaps Apple didn't anticipate that sort of configuration.

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