Re: Bypassing the OCI and using SQL NET's inteface to check on a Server

Joel,

The O8 install of Net8 gives you the TNS Open api under net80\tnsapi would that help ?

Chris.

Joel Garcia wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to see if an Oracle Server is up without establishing a
> connection programmatically? I'm writing a C++ app that makes use of the
> OCI; both OCI 7's orlon and OCI 8's OCIServerAttach establish a connection.
> Establishing a connection takes too long. I basically want to do the
> equivalent of a TNSPING80.exe and some call to check on the status of the
> server. I've been told by Oracle that the only way to do this is with their
> proprietary SQL* NET Dll's which they don't release a public interface for.
> Any ideas on how to make sense of the SQL NET dlls interface or another
> mechanism for doing what I want.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joel P. Garcia
Received on Thu Apr 29 1999 - 17:49:45 CDT