Setting up Maitenance Flag

[Robin T. Slotten]

I am running oracle 9i with service guard. I modified the minitor script in the case statement in the control file so that it will check for a flag to stop oracle process monitoring. I know this script works outside of service guard control script but it does not function as expected when added to the control file. Is there some where else I need to add a flag and where?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Without seeing your script, it's not possible to know but my best guess is that you modified the control file of an already running package so that the running instance has no knowledge of your changes.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

One very typical way to do this is to check for the existence (or lack thereof) of a file each time your monitor script loops.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

How are you calling the script?

In my control file I call the attachment as a service:

SERVICE_NAME[0]="iprprtpkg_mon"
SERVICE_CMD[0]="/etc/cmcluster/IPRPRT/lp-script monitor"
SERVICE_RESTART[0]="-r 3"

Rgds...Geoff