Re: How to check if remote db is up or down?

what i did was trying to perform a dummy remote database connection via dbaccess. INFORMIXCONTIME=5 ; export INFORMIXCONTIME INFORMIXCONRETRY=2 ; export INFORMIXCONRETRY dbaccess <DATABASENAME>@<REMOTE SERVERNAME> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "remote database is not accessible" fi hope this will help. --miyaki-- --- Curtis Crowson <curtis@crowson1.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to remotely check and see if a > particular instance is > > up/down? Perhaps using telnet to log into the > server port number and > > see if anything is listening? > > Yes. I suppose that you would also want to know how. > > > telnet to informix server machine run the "onstat -" > command look at > the return code ( $? ). The following table is what > is going on: > > Fast Recovery: 2 > Online: 5 > Single User ( Quiescent ): 1 > Shared Memory Not Initialized: 255 > > If your sophisticated ( I haven't done it but we are > thinking about > it) Informix supports the SNMP protocol. So I think > that you can query > health through that mechanism. > > You can also look at the unix ports, but I can't > remember the command. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus sending to informix-list