Hi,
Can you just use the built in OEM event "Database UpDown" - though perhaps this only
comes with the Diagnostics Pack for OEM.
As for a user defined test - You could just do something like "select user from dual"
and hope it comes back if it can't connect - I haven't tried this.
However, I think you'll find that user defined tests use the agent which connects via
BEQ rather than via the listener so this won't help that much.
In the diagnostics pack you also have a listener SQLNet up down event
You could also write all this in a batch / perl / windows script / whatever language.
Have a look at Metalink notes to see all the events that are predefined:
Note:69563.1 Subject: Overview of all the Event TCL files used by Enterprise Manager
Note:69592.1 Subject: Quick reference of the events available in Enterprise Manager
The following forum has good info on user defined events:
From: Christian Lang 31-Oct-00 15:03
Subject: User Defined SQL Test
As for the sleep command - get it as its the easiest way (and part of resource kit)
However, there are some (obscure) ways to emulate this functionality, eg:
44. How to pause in a batch for a preset number of seconds?
===
You can use the MS-DOS CHOICE.COM command for the purpose as the
example below demonstrates
@echo off
echo Testing a delay, starting at ...
echo.| time | find /v "new"
choice /c:. /t:.,5 /n Pausing for five seconds
echo ending at ...
echo.| time | find /v "new"
The choice command was introduced with MS-DOS 6. If you have an
earlier MS-DOS version you can use my similar CHOOSE.EXE from
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlf16.zip.
For pauses longer than 99 seconds see the item #64. For better
understanding the CHOICE parameter values, see the end of item #40.
Tom Lavedas points out that if one uses
type nul | choice /c:. /t:.,5 /n Pausing for five seconds
"The piping of the output from the TYPE command into CHOICE acts to
defeat keyboard entry for the wait period."
Also see the later item "How can I write a "SLEEP" command to pause
for a certain time?" for more on this question.
64. How can I write a "SLEEP" command to pause for a certain time?
==
If the delay you want is no more than 99 seconds the answer is
fairly simple. All you need is the CHOICE command with appropriate
options. For example the following batch pauses for ten seconds. You
can, if you wish, break the wait by pressing the key b.
@echo off
choice /cb /t:b,10 /n > nul
rem ^^ "use b as the a break the wait key"
For longer waits a loop is needed. The following batch sets a ten
minute wait. Remove the line "echo %count_%" if you do not wish any
progress report output.
@echo off
set count_=.
set target_=...
:_loop
echo %count_%
choice /cb /t:b,60 /n > nul
set count_=.%count_%
if not "%count_%"=="%target_%" goto _loop
:_end
As so many items, parts of this one owe to the insights of Tom
Lavedas, and parts are totally my own (un)doing.
For this and other useful (?) batch tricks see:
Resources NT batch specific
news:alt.msdos.batch.nt
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=alt.msdos.batch.nt
UltraTech knowledge base
http://www.ultratech-llc.com/Personal/Files/?File=ResKit.TXT
JSI Windows NT/2000 Tips, Tricks, Registry Hacks and more...
http://www.jsiinc.com/Reghack.htm#Tip%20Index
NT/Win2k scripting - good on bat differences between NT and DOS
http://www.seanet.com/~shardy/ntscript.html
Resources batch general:
Batfiles: The DOS batch file programming handbook and tutorial - good
examples and hints / tricks
http://home7.inet.tele.dk/batfiles/
DOS Batch Language: A personal view by Ted Davis - good intro for beginners
http://131.151.112.77/~batch/batchtoc.htm
news:alt.msdos.batch
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=alt.msdos.batch
Multilingual Batch Programs
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/~batch/multilingual.html
Programs by Prof. Timo Salmi - THE author of the alt.msdos.batch FAQ
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts.html and then search for
tsbat67.zip 184193 Mar 8 11:16
A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
HTH,
Bruce Reardon
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On unix you could do:
while true; do tnsping ALIAS > out || mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < out; sleep 300; done;
(obviously you have to replace ALIAS and e-mail address there)
It will send you the tnsping output if it happens to fail. (you'll get a failure
message after every 300 seconds though).
On windows, you could play around with %ERRORLEVEL% and goto cycles... You have to
download sleep command though, Windows does not have such extraordinarily complicated
