On 26 October 2010 14:44, Chris Hudson <chrishud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim, thanks for your reply to Kaushal's request about Oracle databases. I > am trying to do the same thing (configure Nagios to monitor Oracle dB's). > I already have the instant client installed on my Nagios server thanks to a > previous employee, and my dBa has edited my tnsnames.ora file on the Nagios > server; so now I am just trying to verify that the instant client is > configured properly. > I checked the directions in the second link you sent. In step 4 it tells > you to cd to /etc/ld.so.conf and edit/create a file called oracle.conf and > insert the following path in the file: /opt/oracle/lib > Is this referring to a path on the Oracle server I will be checking, > because this path (/opt/oracle/lib) does not exist on my Nagios server.
The oracle.conf file under /etc/ld.so.conf needs to point to whichever directory contains the library files (*.so). > The > instant client does get installed on the Nagios server, correct? That's right. You should be able to test the instant client is working by running sqlplus and querying a database. Your DBA can help you with that. It seems to work the same as the full size client. hth, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
