Environment settings for check_oracle

[Voon, Ton]

My understanding of Oracle is that the oratab file (located usually in /etc
or /var/opt/oracle) holds the ORACLE_HOME and thus the location of the
binaries. This is on a per-SID basis and usually extracted with . oraenv (or
. coraenv).

Later versions of check_oracle (look in CVS on sourceforge) will take a sid
of * in the oratab to mean "use this as the default ORACLE_HOME", which
seems to be the convention at my workplace here. That way, only the
check_oracle plugin will pick up the Oracle variables. However, Mark
Ferlatte's suggestion of putting it in the startup script for Nagios would
also work (but maybe a bit baffling if you ever upgrade Oracle on the Nagios
server).

Ton

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeff Rendl [SMTP:jeff.rendl at ifsna.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 10, 2003 5:07 PM
> To:	'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject:	[Nagios-users] Environment settings for check_oracle
> 
> The question is:  How do I configure a "system-wide" environment variable
> in Linux so that my Nagios process (which starts as a service) has access
> to them?  I am running Redhat V8.
>  
> I'll admit it, I'm a Linux newbie, I figured most this stuff out (with
> help), but I'm stumped now.  In order for the check_oracle plugin to work,
> it has to be able to access the ORACLE_HOME (amongst others) environment
> variables.  I figured out how to make these available to my shell
> consistantly, but they aren't available to the NAGIOS process.
>  
> Thanks!


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