On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:57:18 +0200, Sybrand Bakker wrote:
I am using Whats up gold to monitor my oracle DB's (I am a sysadmin not a
DBA) and the problem with monitoring the listener or port is that
sometimes the listener is up, but the DB is down. What's Up Gold has an
ascii socket interface that I can send a string through. It emulates
telnet, hence the telnet question. Sorry, perhaps I should have explained
that to begin with.
Rocky
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:33:32 GMT, Rocky <PerlGuRu2b_at_bobotheclown.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Anyone know what string I can send to an oracle DB while telnetted into
>>it's listener to first connect then verify that it is alive?
>> I would like to keep the string inexepensive as I will be sending it
>>every couple of minutes. Thank you.
>>Rocky
>
> You get exact the same feature when using tnsping.
> And there is NO NEED WHATSOEVER to do it evey few minutes.
Received on Wed Mar 31 2004 - 12:21:32 CST
