Hi all,
There seems to be an issue with having comments in the dbcheck.ini file, using # after specific tests really messed up things. Now everything is working fine, thanks to both Jeremey and Phil for your suggestions.
/Johan
From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 9:38 AM To: Grotherus Johan (DS-XO) Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Oracle monitoring with dbcheck fails
On 15 September 2015 at 16:59, <Johan.Grotherus at vattenfall.com<mailto:Johan.Grotherus at vattenfall.com>> wrote: This is weird, and it got even more weird when I realized that dbcheck does not even try to communicate with the Oracle instances, it simply logs the error message and exits. I ran tcpdump to verify this and there is no connection attempt being made by dbcheck.
Try running the script through strace.