Re: Database startup verification for Windows Services?

"Joop" <jkaashoek_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1129241820.566911.7480_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Is there a possibility to have a Windows service startup depend on the
> successful startup of and Oracle database? Using the dependency
> mechanism of Windows services appears like the way to go, but making a
> service depend on the listener service and the database instance
> service does not do the trick, since apparently the listener service
> signals that is 'started' long before it is actually up and running.
>
> We can of course create our own service that does a busy poll on the
> database, but are hoping that this wheel is already invented...
>

Maybe this KB article helps :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;193888

Matthias Received on Sat Oct 15 2005 - 12:55:49 CDT