Get instance names from PIDS?

Here's one for you: HP-UX 11i, IDS9.5 Imagine I'm trying to find out which instances are up and running in an automated shutdown script,and I have no prior knowledge of the setup. Although I know where the onconfig files are, I don't know which ones have been started up. I can see there are some instances running using ps -fu informix; I can then find the informix main cpuvp PIDs from ps -ef and looking for the ones with PPID=1; there could be one or several. How can I find the instance names that are running (from that PID info?) so that I can automatically set INFORMIXSERVER to that value and run onmode -yuck? I've looked in /INFORMIXTMP, and all there is in there is several "VP.<instancename>soc.<number>.s" files, some relating to running instances and some not, and they're length 0 anyway. I've looked in ${INFORMIXDIR}/etc/ and the .conf.<instancename> and .infos.<instancename> files don't hold any PID info either. I could look in the message logs and see which instances don't have "Informix Dynamic Server Stopped" at the end, but that's similarly not reliable. ipcs isn't useful either. Any clues?

onstat -g dis j. On Apr 21, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Malc wrote: > Here's one for you: > HP-UX 11i, IDS9.5 > Imagine I'm trying to find out which instances are up and running in > an automated shutdown script,and I have no prior knowledge of the > setup. Although I know where the onconfig files are, I don't know > which ones have been started up. > > I can see there are some instances running using ps -fu informix; I > can then find the informix main cpuvp PIDs from ps -ef and looking for > the ones with PPID=1; there could be one or several. > > How can I find the instance names that are running (from that PID > info?) so that I can automatically set INFORMIXSERVER to that value > and run onmode -yuck? > > I've looked in /INFORMIXTMP, and all there is in there is several > "VP.<instancename>soc.<number>.s" files, some relating to running > instances and some not, and they're length 0 anyway. > I've looked in ${INFORMIXDIR}/etc/ and the .conf.<instancename> > and .infos.<instancename> files don't hold any PID info either. > > I could look in the message logs and see which instances don't have > "Informix Dynamic Server Stopped" at the end, but that's similarly not > reliable. > > ipcs isn't useful either. > > Any clues? > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

On Apr 21, 2:45 pm, Jack Parker <jack.park...@verizon.net> wrote: > onstat -g dis> doh <facepalm>

Although I've noted that the "up" / "down" indicator is not always accurate, and should be taken with a grain of salt. j. On Apr 21, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Malc wrote: > On Apr 21, 2:45 pm, Jack Parker <jack.park...@verizon.net> wrote: >> onstat -g dis>> > > doh <facepalm> > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

I usually have a config file with all the instances and a function to get all the environments. So if I had to do that I would go through the list, set every environment, check if it was up and stop it. This is useful for a lot of other situations, so I usually wouldn't bother in trying tricks that only solve one issue. Regards. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Malc <malcrp@googlemail.com> wrote: > Here's one for you: > HP-UX 11i, IDS9.5 > Imagine I'm trying to find out which instances are up and running in > an automated shutdown script,and I have no prior knowledge of the > setup. Although I know where the onconfig files are, I don't know > which ones have been started up. > > I can see there are some instances running using ps -fu informix; I > can then find the informix main cpuvp PIDs from ps -ef and looking for > the ones with PPID=1; there could be one or several. > > How can I find the instance names that are running (from that PID > info?) so that I can automatically set INFORMIXSERVER to that value > and run onmode -yuck? > > I've looked in /INFORMIXTMP, and all there is in there is several > "VP.<instancename>soc.<number>.s" files, some relating to running > instances and some not, and they're length 0 anyway. > I've looked in ${INFORMIXDIR}/etc/ and the .conf.<instancename> > and .infos.<instancename> files don't hold any PID info either. > > I could look in the message logs and see which instances don't have > "Informix Dynamic Server Stopped" at the end, but that's similarly not > reliable. > > ipcs isn't useful either. > > Any clues? > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...