OEM 11g alerts and notifications arrive together I setup the OEM with the Idea to receive Critical messages (emails when the DB, listener, agents and host are down/up) but it doesn't seem to be working.  If I "shutdown abort" the database I wont received any message until I put it up and running, so I receive all the messages together.

Please see image Bellow, that's how I set the alerts, I tested the Email sending and it's working.


Any Idea what it could be?
And that is why Enterprise Manager Database Control is inappropriate for this kind of monitoring.
Enterprise Manager Grid Control/Cloud Control runs on a seperate host, with a seperate repository database, and that is the tool for this job.