Re: Oracle database status web page

From: Anurag Varma <avdbi_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 04:44:36 GMT
Message-ID: <U_Oia.1096$WG1.339@news02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net>

"nilanjan" <nilanjan_sarkar_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:6c8b1f5.0304021554.1aa64b6a_at_posting.google.com...
> Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:<3E8B1CE0.F2195F6E_at_telusplanet.net>...
> > nilanjan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am looking for some ideas to create a web page that will show me the
> > > database status for a number of ORacle databases.
> > > - I want this to be very simple to implement (I am not a web
> > > programmmer but know very little java to be dangerous )
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> 3. Again this involves creating another Repository database , so that
> adds another failure point and dependency. What if the repository
> itself was down or the Oracle Apache machine was down ??

> Of course , The enterprise portal web sever I want to publish on , in
> itself is always the point of failure at a minimum (but assume it has

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> high reliability )

Why don't you just ask the users to assume that the database is up? or point them to this site (if they want to know whether the database will be going down in the future):
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/question.html

Anurag Received on Wed Apr 02 2003 - 22:44:36 CST