RE: How do I extract "vsnnum" from oracle binaries or libraries (was Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.)
- From: "Powell, Mark D" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:41:11 -0500
There was just a thread on the subject of getting the Oracle version
from the OS a few days ago here on Oracle-L
I like Jared Still's solution read it from the dbms_utilities package
grep -iE 'RDBMS version number|RDBMS release number'
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsutil.sql
Another solution was to pull it out via strings
ver 9i and 10g: strings `which oracle` | grep -i version
ver 11 : strings `which oracle` | grep -i release
There might have been other ideas but these are the ones I remember.
-- Mark D Powell --
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fowler, Kenneth R
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Subject: How do I extract "vsnnum" from oracle binaries or libraries
(was Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.)
Hi,
This thread was of great interest to me as I am currently working on a
project to gather server and database metadata for servers and databases
in our farm. One part of the project requires the ability to
automatically gather data on oracle installations so I was trying to
figure out how to get hold of the "vsnnum" value from oracle binaries or
libraries.
I can find evidence of "vsnnum" using elfdump (Solaris 10)...
amrndhs014-ora9i $ uname -a
SunOS amrndhs014 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
amrndhs014-ora9i $ pwd
/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.8_64
amrndhs014-ora9i $ /usr/ccs/bin/elfdump bin/oracle | grep vsnnum
[44804] 0x000102f87748 0x000000000004 OBJT GLOB D 0 .rodata
vsnnum
[136007] 0x000102f87748 0x000000000004 OBJT GLOB D 0 .rodata
vsnnum
[44804] vsnnum
amrndhs014-ora9i $ /usr/ccs/bin/elfdump lib/libcommon9.a | grep vsnnum
[674] 0x00155e84 (vsndef.o):vsnnum
[18] 0x000000000000 0x000000000004 OBJT GLOB D 0 .rodata
vsnnum
But I am having no luck extracting the correct (expected) value. Anyone
have any experience with this sort of thing?
Thanks,
Ken.
Database Services - Infrastructure, Platform and Systems Engineering
Worldwide Technology Engineering Phone (Work): (860) 686-1749 Phone
(Cell): (860) 389-3534
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Yurichev
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:16 PM
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Subject: Re: Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the
database.
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Fuad Arshad wrote:
> Folks,
> I'm trying to find a way to script finding an approximation of the
version of the database without connecting to the database itself.
> The goal is to try to find out of the Oracle_home is a Oracle 10 home
, 9 home etc .
>
> right now i'm doiing something like
> DATAVERSION1=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | awk -F/ '{print $6}'` expecting that
> $6 would lead me to something like
/usr/local/oracle/product/10.2
>
> but this is not a very foolproof implementation since installs can
take various forms and break this implementation.
oracommon(9|10|11).dll contain exported variable "_vsnnum", which is
32-bit DWORD and reflect precise Oracle 4d or 5d version.
This information is used in V$VERSION view.
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