<div>As noted by dmourati there already are some plugins available and they also work with the "new" oracle instant client : <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html">http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html </a></div> <div> </div> <div>(getting this to work can be tricky) </div> <div>... </div> <div>On 11/2/05, Demetri Mouratis <<a href="mailto:dmourati@cm.math.uiuc.edu">dmourati@cm.math.uiuc.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Ben O'Hara wrote: > On 11/2/05, Andreas Ericsson <<a href="mailto:ae@op5.se"> ae@op5.se</a>> wrote: >> John Joseph wrote: >>> Hi Andreas >>> Thanks for the mail >>> I will try to start writing the plugins , my idea >>> is to write SNMP plugins , so that I do not need to >>> install any thing on the Oracle Server other than SNMP >>> >>> Is it possible to monitor >>> Table Space >>> No of Data Base logs >>> Availablity of tnslsnr using SNMP , >> >> >> That depends on the capability of the snmp-daemon and the oracle server. >> I've never worked that closely with oracle so I don't know. If you get >> it working I'd be interested in having a look though. >> > > The contrib/check_oracle from nagios-plugins will monitor all of this > without requiring anything to be installed on the oracle server. > > Monitoring host must have oracle installed and access to sqlplus but > other than that it doesnt need to go on the oracle box. > > Ben Exactly. As far as I am concerned, SNMP is a roundabout way to go if you have a remote plugin like check_oracle. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Demetri Mouratis dmourati at <a href="http://linfactory.com">linfactory.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php">http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users </a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>