Suresh Kumar Nalluru

This howto is unusable for todays needs

Sorry, using check_tcp for database monitoring??? Maybe this was state of the art in the 90's. And even more weird...java-plugins. Did the author ever see an installation with more than 1 database? Imagine you have hundreds of databases to monitor or a few sap databases with 200 tablespaces each. Can you even imagine what happens if you fire up a java-plugin for every tablespace in 5-minute intervals? And what about reading the nagios plugin devloper guidelines? performance data? command line arguments? If you want to monitor databases seriously then check_oracle_health and it's cousins are the way to go.

Reviewed 16 years ago