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

> 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.