=====Overview=====
Officially Oracle Golden gate can be monitored in 3 ways:

  - [[oracle_gg_monitoring_monitor| Oracle GoldenGate monitor]] (Requires a database as repository: Oracle, MySQL or others)
  - [[oracle_gg_monitoring_directory | Oracle Director]] (I guess the same as 1) )
  - [[oracle_gg_monitoring_scripts | Scripts]] (for people without money, like me :) ) 
  - [[oracle_gg_monitoring_nagios | Integration with Nagios]]

So let's get going.
Firstly I will start with the scripts, since it is the cheapest (7 hours to deal with the Google SMPT Server and 1 hour for the script.