Hi Henrik

Yes, it is my experience that you only have one listener per server, and it can handle multiple databases. However, here, and in my previous company, they have 2 separate listener instances when running Oracle Financials. The database has a listener, and the applications also have a listener. Two separate instances on two separate ports. In the case of the one server, they have no less than 6 listener instances running, on 6 different ports. Configuring separate listener tests as below may be the only way to go at this point.

Sadly, this may all be a waste of time. I am growing weary of fighting all the politics to get Hobbit in as a monitoring system, and am on the verge of giving up the fight.

Regards Vernon

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 3:26 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Oratns

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:36:28AM +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote:

How do I make it check for more than one Oracle listener? For reasons unknown to me, we are running multiple listeners on separate ports on a server.

I'm surprised - I thought you could not have more than one tns listener per system. Oh well - I don't know one bit about Oracle DB; I've only worked with their J2EE application server.

The problem with it is that even though you can put multiple "oratns" tests into the bb-hosts file, each of them will cause a separate status message. So what you'll see on the Hobbit display is the result of only one of the tests.

My best suggestion is to copy the [oratns] section in bb-services so you have [oratns], [oratns1], [oratns2] and so up to the number of listeners you have on a single host. Then you can define them with their respective port numbers in the bb-hosts file, like

1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns1:1545 oratns2:1546

Then there will be separate status columns for each of the listeners.

Regards, Henrik

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