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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:15:17 +0100
From: Andreas Necker <Andreas.Necker@isb-ag.de.nospam>
Organization: ISB AG
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Hi,

dan1999a@attbi.com wrote:
> Hi Oracle DBAs,
> 
> In UNIX, to get a list of Oracle databases on a server, I do this in my
> script:
>  grep ^[A-Z,a-z] /etc/oratab
> 
> Is there a way that I can script out getting a list of Oracle databases and
> its Oracle Home in a Windows environment?  I'm trying to write a script that
> will run for each Oracle database on a server.
> 
you can get the service names with an NET START:

-------------------------------------------------------
C:\>net start
Folgende Windows 2000-Dienste sind gestartet:
...
    OracleDEFAULT_HOMETNSListener
    OracleServiceTECD
...
-------------------------------------------------------

 > Also, is there a way of doing this using PERL?
 >
You can use the package "Win32::TieRegistry" for querying 
"HKLM\Software\Oracle\HOMEn".

hth
Andreas

