Please provide thoughts and comments - I'm not a DBA and I'm having our DBAs do further research here, but ... I infer from the Oracle documentation, that Oracle logs to a single syslog facility+level per instance, if configured. And the information in the Oracle log cannot be configured/altered. The downside that I'm seeing is that there is no information in regards to the Oracle instance. So, if I have a box with 20+ instances and I wish to relay this to a central server, all this is going to end up as noise. My kludge for this, would be to setup the following on each Oracle server: Instance #1 -> local0.debug Instance #2 -> local0.info Instance #3 -> local0.warn Instance #4 -> local1.debug Instance #5 -> local1.info Instance #6 -> local1.warn Etc. Then, setup syslog-ng on that Oracle server to use templates (one per instance), to route the data to a single facility & level on our centralized syslog-ng log server and imbed an instance name into the log. This config sounds really cumbersome. I'm also trying to avoid using Oracle to send the logs to a different instance which would do the consolidation. Does anyone else have a better solution? Am I right in that Oracle will only send to a single facility+level combo regardless of criticality? Thanks, Jim