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Oracle discovery

Are there any tools that will do a discovery of all roacle databases in your network, regardless of the OS they are installed on? Our admins have provided a list that seems very out of date, i just wondered how such a list could be compiled?

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slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

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Pau Lo

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Are there any manual ways of doing this per server?

The oracle databases are installed on either windows server or AIX IBM.

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

There might be other ways other Experts can think of but off the top of my head here is what I have.

You can look for Oracle Software installs. Once found look in common database folders like dbs (Unix) or database (Windows) for config files like the spfile or init configuration files. This will tell you that a database existed at one time but not the current status of it.

You can look at services or running processes to see what is running at that specific moment. This won't show databases that are down (although Windows Services will show what databases are available to be started).

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Geert G

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Geert G

i use something like this to list the databases i manage
in servers.txt file i add the names of all the servers i'm interested in :

ORASRVTST01
ORASRVTST02
ORASRVPRD01

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this script checks every servername and lists all the databases (services) per server in file databases.txt

set serverfile=servers.txt

set dbfile=databases.txt

echo.List of databases per server >%dbfile%

for /f %%G in (%serverfile%) do  (
  echo.Databases on server "%%G">>%dbfile%
  sc \\%%G query|findstr /C:"DISPLAY_NAME: OracleService">>%dbfile%
  echo.---------------->>%dbfile%
)

pause

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