Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBIIKRd05133 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:20:27 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.213 Received: from www2.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-213.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.213]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBIIKJo05121 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:20:25 -0600 Received: (from root@localhost) by www2.fatcity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hBIIF1B12113 for oracle-l@orafaq.com; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:15:01 -0800 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005DA540; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:09:24 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:09:24 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Robson, Peter" Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Robson, Peter" Subject: RE: Checking that the instance is up Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark, Raj - Thank you both for coming back on that request of mine so promptly - I feel that I have a surfeit of riches! peter edinburgh > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Leith [mailto:mark@cool-tools.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:54 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Checking that the instance is up > > > Hi Peter, > > I remember the thread, but couldn't remember the subject line at all.. > > Having had this discussion countless times in the past, > here's what I would > opt for: > > The best way to make sure that an instance is alive and > running would be to > do a full connection to that instance, and run a simple piece > of sql - such > as "select 'PING' from dual;". This makes sure that both the > listener, and > instance are both up and readily accepting connections. > > You can also monitor for the listener status separately, based upon a > "TNSPING " command, that will alert simply to the status of the > listener. > > We do both of these with our monitoring tool, and generate > ENTITY_DOWN and > NETWORK_DOWN alerts respectively. If you get both an ENTITY_DOWN and > NETWORK_DOWN error message at the same time, then this helps > to point you at > the listener quicker than trying to diagnose why the instance > is down. If > you just get an ENTITY_DOWN message on it's own, then it points to a > database based problem. > > You should also try and catch the error messages on a > failure, and flag > those in your warning messages. > > And of course, there is the point of monitoring the monitor. > You should have > some process in place that is making sure that the monitor is > up and running > correctly. Whether this be a date/timestamp placed in to a > log file with > every successful "ping", or making sure a cron/AT job is running etc. > depends on how you do this.. > > Of course, you could buy a tool that already does all of this.. ;) > > HTH > > Mark > > > > > -----Original Message----- > Robson, Peter > Sent: 18 December 2003 13:59 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Folks - > > Some months ago there were exchanges on the optimum way to > check that an > instance was alive. > > I have searched, hunted and generally scavenged for these > exchanges, but > without luck. > > Can anyone give me the subject line, and I can turn again to > the archive? > > thanks, > > peter > edinburgh > > > ********************************************************************* > This e-mail message, and any files transmitted with it, are > confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. 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