Re: easy ways to know oracle is up

betelge87 wrote:
>
> We are trying to develop a script which detects if oracle server is
> running correctly. We have seen that lot of oracle process are running
> and with ps is not easy to know if oracle is really running. On the
> other hand we saw that through sqlplus is possible to start a
> connection and see if oracle is answering. Is there any standard or
> easy way to do this?
>
> Thanks

print "
connect junk/junk
exit" | sqlplus /nolog 1>blah.log 2>&1

then grep blah.log for SP2- ORA- etc, and you'll know whether is up or not.

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Connor McDonald
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