check_oracle agent needed or not?

Nagios Nagios Plugins support
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I am planning on running check_oracle on my linux nagios box to monitor a windows oracle box. I do not want to put the agent on the windows box if possible. I am only going to be using the check_oracle --login to send a dummy login to see if oracle is running. As far as I can tell it should only use the oracle client and sqlplus that I have installed on my linux nagios box. the other check I will be doing is a ping test which is run from the nagios box.
So am I correct in thinking I do not need to install the nsclient on the windows box.

Also what config files will I need to modify to do these two checks?

thx in advance.

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I have found that I do not need to have an agent but does anyone know what .cfg file to put the command. Also where do I look in the Nagios web pages to see the results. I can see my host on the webpage and my ping command results

‘check_oracle’ command definition

define command{
command_name check_oracle
command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --login TRWE
}

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You might want to take a look at the check_oracle_health plugin (labs.consol.de/wp-content/upload … 6.3.tar.gz) is toward the bottom of the page.

-Adam