Check_Oracle plugin help needed

[Hendrik "Boomer" Baecker]

Phil Tuttiett schrieb:

>Hi,
>  I have nagios 2.0b3 installed on a SuSE 9.0 system, with version 1.4 of the plugins. I'm trying to configure oracle database checks with the check_oracle plugin (check_oracle (nagios-plugins 1.4) 1.14). Oracle is not installed on the nagios box. Do I need to?
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AFAIK you need to Install an Oracle DB, it has not be to run but it must
be there. A little bit silly cause of the licence...

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>I have configured obtained a copy of tnsnames.ora from a windows client and attempted to configure an ORACLE_HOME, but I suspect unsuccessfully.
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>Whenever I run check_oracle from the command line, I get
>   Cannot determine ORACLE_HOME for sid
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>Obviously, I'm missing something - but what? I'm a Linux newbie, so any assistance would be appreciated. Also, I've assigned a value to ORACLE_HOME (/usr/local/nagios/etc), exported the value and put the tnsnames.ora in that directory.
> 
>Thanks in advance for your help
> 
>Phil Tuttiett
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