On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:01:26 +0100, Pete Finnigan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You need to look at the tnsping utility, why do you need to check the
> listener is alive every few minutes?
>
> kind regards
>
> Pete
Actually I have a monitor (What's up Gold) which checks the listener every few
minutes. This is how we fire off emails if the DB goes down. The problem
that I have is this: the listener can stay up though the DB itself is
down. The monitoring system has a feature which allows a telnet like
session (actually an ascii socket connection) in which I can pass any
string to the DB. I would like to do something like get the sysdate every
5 minutes or select a single record pre-placed by me. I just wondered if
anyone knew the string to pass to gain access to the DB. I guess I could
capture it using tcpdump or something. TNSPing will not cut it because it
only checks the listener.
Thank you,
Rocky
Received on Wed Mar 31 2004 - 13:46:42 CST
