I recently discovered that someone else is publishing some Perl utilities to monitor Oracle!
I've been using Perl to get things done with Oracle for a while and have found it extremely helpful. The current environment that I work in has a mixture of OSes so sometimes its easier to install Perl and DBI everywhere and write a simple Perl Script than to try to do something in DOS Batch for one client and then do it again in a bash shell script for another.
Sean Hull published a video of his talk about otop, the PowerPoint slides, and the downloadable source on his company's site:
