Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

Other than using some third party tool you might like to use either a windows or Perl script to poll the listener and see if it can connect to the instance. and that would send you an alert of some kind I thought someone had posted one in the past but I don't seem to have a copy in my stored email

HTH
Peter

At 04:55 PM 31/07/2001, you wrote:
>Hi Xperts,
>
>Platform is Windows NT Server SP-6 , Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.1.6
>
>Question:
>
>1. How do I know before someone tells me that Oracle is down ( e.g. in Unix
>we check dbw process )
>
>2. If Oracle is Down , Why ? means which file should be looked for the
>possible causes.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Harsh
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