SQLPlus connection timeout options

We saw an issue other day, where the database server was responding to tnsping and not responding when trying to establish a connection..

When we tried to connect to the DB.. It was just stuck there and never to login prompt.

So, what I'm trying开发者_JAVA技巧 to do here is to monitor the DB every 5 mins. In case of the above scinero. I may hang again in the same place..

Is there any connection timeout parameter while calling sqlplus.

I'm using the below call

sqlplus -s $constring @justexit.sql

Is there any connection timeout option, which will comeout after waiting for sometime.

Regards, Senny

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I don't understand how running this sqlplus script will work (disclaimer: unless it's part of a batch etc). Even if you're inserting the data into a table if you can't select from it again, due to timeout issues, then it's not going to help you. We have a similar system in place to monitor server load, which then goes into a table but to monitor whether the database is timing out, it makes more sense to use something like python to attempt to do something every 5 minutes and e-mail if it times out.

The timeout interval is described here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a90842/ch3.htm