Oracle DB Server

[Jim Avery]

On 26 October 2010 14:44, Chris Hudson <chrishudson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim, thanks for your reply to Kaushal's request about Oracle databases.  I
> am trying to do the same thing (configure Nagios to monitor Oracle dB's).
> I already have the instant client installed on my Nagios server thanks to a
> previous employee, and my dBa has edited my tnsnames.ora file on the Nagios
> server; so now I am just trying to verify that the instant client is
> configured properly.
> I checked the directions in the second link you sent.  In step 4 it tells
> you to cd to /etc/ld.so.conf and edit/create a file called oracle.conf and
> insert the following path in the file:  /opt/oracle/lib
>  Is this referring to a path on the Oracle server I will be checking,
> because this path (/opt/oracle/lib) does not exist on my Nagios server.

The oracle.conf file under /etc/ld.so.conf needs to point to whichever
directory contains the library files (*.so).

>  The
> instant client does get installed on the Nagios server, correct?

That's right.

You should be able to test the instant client is working by running
sqlplus and querying a database.  Your DBA can help you with that.  It
seems to work the same as the full size client.

hth,

Jim

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