Don't know about Oracle Grid, but I have another suggestion. If I understood correctly, your issue is to monitor the tablespaces which where added by the DBA's? If so, you should try the plugin check_oracle_health which has an option to monitor ALL tablespaces (not just the utilization of one given tablespace): --mode tablespace-usage If wanted you can also monitor a single tablespace by using: --mode tablespace-usage --tablespace MYTABLE <a href="http://labs.consol.de/lang/en/nagios/check_oracle_health/">http://labs.consol.de/lang/en/nagios/check_oracle_health/</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Tim Dunphy <<a href="mailto:bluethundr@jokefire.com">bluethundr@jokefire.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> hello list, We've been monitoring our Oracle Database using a plugin called 'check_oracle'. It's proven quite handy in getting the sizes of tablespaces and alerting based on percentages of space used. However the DBAs point out that the database is very dynamic and that tablespaces are always being added and removed. It seems like they don't want to notify us each time this happens. Keeping on top of them to do this is a pain. They've just installed Oracle Grid and suggested we use nagios to monitor that instead. I've never seen or used Oracle Grid so I was hoping someone out there with a little more knowledge than me on the topic might have some suggestions on how to accomplish this. Are there any plugins already out there that are written to take information from the oracle grid and parse that for use in nagios? Thanks Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>