Cyril, I'm not sure why you'd need to have DBI compiled on each of your servers -- you can change the db connect string to access your Oracle databases from one location over TCP/IP. Just set up the proper entries in your tnsnames.ora file
-------------------------------------------------------- Anna Q. Fong, Webmaster California Data Exchange Center > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Using DBI/Oracle stand alone > > Hi, > I have made a little monitor script in perl to monitor an Oracle > database (does select/update) in a monitoring table to check if the database > is still up. The problem is that I have over 100 Solaris servers and I don't > want to compile/install the DBI module on every server. Is it possible to > compile a version of perl with the modules in it, or have the module work by > it self (even if it means copying a few libraries). > > I've tried putting a require instead of use, but it breaks in the > package. > > Have anybody done this, can it be done, any suggestion :) > > Thanks > > -Cyril >
