Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle test without oracle client

From: <admir.trakic(at)nordea.com>
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 06:25:00 EDT

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon@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@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@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@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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