RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Rogers
For a small nominal fee I'm sure that someone can come up with a discarded pc that will run UNIX (Linux or Solaris) that will monitor your NT servers. OR How about using the Win scheduler to run a script to connect to the Oracle DB and select sysdate from dual. If you can't then the DB is down.

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
We monitor our NT database by doing an SQL select on the NT instance from a Unix server. Works great and you don't have to reinvent the wheel just for NT. Ron Smith Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:06 PM To: Multiple recipients o

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Yes, yes you are. I use a fake OS, (I am lazy) KK -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You can easily check if you can make a connection. The rest ???/ well, I am not sure. I use a real OS. (Ok, so I am a Unix Biggot).

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Oops..!! Sorry . I didn't notice you are on "Not Today" ( NT ) OS ...! ALright I am a unix Bigot . You can use the same technique though and write your own code or use MKS toolkit sorta thing to run shell scripts Cheers , RS __ Do You Yahoo!? Make

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Lange
You can easily check if you can make a connection. The rest ???/ well, I am not sure. I use a real OS. (Ok, so I am a Unix Biggot). -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are you sure you can do that with NT? NT makes O

Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Sakthi , Raj
You can use the following shell script and have it email you the error message . Th eemailing is not enabled in teh script because I use it for HP OpenView monitoring which reads the text out put constantly . ** Script Starts here SCRIPT TO CHECK THE AVAILABILITY

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Are you sure you can do that with NT? NT makes Oracle one large process called "Oracle.exe", I know there are programs that will let you see the individual processes though. For me the easiest way is to just try and log on to the db, if you can't, it's gone:) KK -Original Message

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Lange
1.Your users complain loudly . 2. First check to see if your smon processes are running. If it is not then you know oracle is down. If it is up then check a query against the catalog. If you get what you expect then Oracle is up. From this information you can then either set a value

Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Joe Testa
the only way to make sure oracle is up/down is to connect to the database. the listener could be up but that doesnt prove anything at the dblevel. joe Peter McLarty wrote: > > Other than using some third party tool you might like to use either a > windows or Perl script to poll the listener and

Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Peter McLarty
Other than using some third party tool you might like to use either a windows or Perl script to poll the listener and see if it can connect to the instance. and that would send you an alert of some kind I thought someone had posted one in the past but I don't seem to have a copy in my stored em