<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jason Martin wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20060704160448.GY3056@mal.members.linode.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">has anybody got the check_oracle plug-in working? I usually try to do this stuff from the command line first to see how it works before creating the check_command definition but it's not working for this plug-in. The error I get is: ./check_oracle --tns 192.168.1.99 Cannot determine ORACLE_HOME for sid 192.168.1.99 Which according to --help is supposed to check a remote oracle server, so why on earth is it asking for ORACLE_HOME, when this machine has no oracle on it and won't have a home? The same happens when using the tns name (which also resolves via dns). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">check_oracle is a shell script that calls tnsping or sqlplus to do its work. It requires that the oracle client utilities be installed for it to work. You need to either run this via ssh/NRPE or install Oracle on the host initiating the check. -Jason Martin </pre> </blockquote> oh bummer, thanks guys. is there a better binary plug-in anywhere that doesn't have these dependencies? It would be nice to get this working... -h </body> </html>