Oracle test without oracle client

[admir.trakic at nordea.com]

Recompile InstantClient? -where is the source? .... ;-) 
Anyways, some of us are not sitting on x86 boxes, 
/admir

-----Original Message-----
From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com] 
Sent: 24 September 2007 12:21
To: Trakic, Admir
Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle test without oracle client

Yes this is a limitation of the instant client then, not the plugin per
se, if you could compile the instant client on those other architectures
then you could run the plugin there.

I agree it's not ideal, when I first saw this I wondered why nobody has
done a proper plugin in C or something, but then, who's going to do it? 
It's not easy and it's hard to find the time for something like this
when there is already a (mainly) working solution.

I, probably like everyone else, figured the check_oracle script was
worth a try, and just good enough. I have used it for a year and a half
and it's done great by me so far. But then I am not running exotic
architectures...

If worst came to worst, you could just have the plugin and instant
client on an x86 box and run it via a remote check like nrpe...

-h

Hari Sekhon



admir.trakic at nordea.com wrote:
> Ehm, oracle_client is havily dependent on instannt client, therefore 
> cannot be used under arm,ppc,etc,...
>
> $ uname -m
> armv5tel
>
> Br,AdmirTrakic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com]
> Sent: 24 September 2007 12:08
> To: Trakic, Admir
> Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle test without oracle client
>
> admir.trakic at nordea.com wrote:
>   
>> I agree with you, but again it was just a dirty hack (if no 
>> $ORACLE_HOME)...
>>
>> Additionally I would also comment on your "usable" pointer: 
>> - take a good look on your tablespace checks, since the check_oracle 
>> script does not taking any account on that, for more info se:
>> http://www.oracleutilities.com/autoextend.html
>>   
>>     
> True, it's not 100% cos your tablespaces could be out of space, there 
> are a couple of oracle scripts in contrib that are supposed to check 
> tablespaces but I don't use them personally at this time. I just make 
> sure the oracle databases are up and accessible
>
> it's still a good start though, it will tell you if the listener is up

> and if so then if the instance is up or not.
>
>
> -h
>
>   

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