From: "Lashbrook" <lashbrook@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: Oracle 7.3.2.2 HPUX Installation: Domain?
Date: 1997/08/08
Message-ID: <01bca3b7$deedcb80$468ddccf@pebbles>#1/1
References: <33d47a52.8668334@nnrp.news.uk.psi.net> <19970807035500.XAA21176@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Organization: Netcom
X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Aug 07  9:59:48 PM PDT 1997
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server



SQL-NET version 1.x will verify the database is up, but you needed to have
a valid Oracle username/password. It was changed in SQL-NET version 2.x to
only check listener, thus making it easier to test basic Oracle network
communication (like TCP/IP ping command).


BRAJB <brajb@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970807035500.XAA21176@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
> tnsping will only verify the listener is up on the target machine.  It
> will not verify that the database is up and running.
> 
>