Running an Unix Script from Informatica Mapping/workflow.

Hi ,
I have a need to start /stop service to a remote server (away from the DAC server ,which is on UNIX os)
how could this be done in a best way?
I am planning to do this through Informatica Workflow,and need help (technical steps Please) to do this.
1) workflow will call the Unix Script
2) Unix Script logins to the remote server
3) Unix scripts navigates to particular folder
4) Unix script executes a command to Start/Stop the server.
5) Unix Script logs out.
6) if everything done success ,Workflow will success else fail with the error code.
Regards

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Hi,
how can i run a unix script from java application. This java application is on windows.
How can i do this.
thanks,

Hi,
how can i run a unix script from java application.
This java application is on windows.
So I think it's safe to assume that the target script is on a remote unix server.
Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshtools/

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user539616 wrote:
Hello,
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System name: SunOS
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Hello people,
I should have added this bit of information:
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"The script runs fine from a shell owned by oracle."
I'm getting responses telling me to check my env variables and permissions
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$ORACLE_HOME/bin/extJob
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bash sol root /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin 33 #
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bash sol root /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin 34 #
bash sol root /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin 34 #
bash sol root /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin 34 #
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I created a user named rman:
bash sol root /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin 34 #
bash sol root /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin 34 #
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Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
$
$ id
uid=220(rman) gid=220(rman)
$
$
$ date
Fri Sep 7 16:30:03 PDT 2007
$
$
Jared points out that rman needs access to extproc:
$ ls -la /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin/extproc
-rwsr-x--- 1 rman dba 34468 Sep 21 2006 /h/oracle/product/10r2/bin/extproc
$
$
Here is a demo of rman running his script:
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Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
$
$
$ ls
scripts
$
$
$ scripts/tst.sh
$
$
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$
$
$ cat /tmp/tst.sh.out.txt
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$
$ rm /tmp/tst.sh.out.txt
$
I am focused on this error:
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: 274662
And I am focused on this exit code: 274662
What does 274662 mean?
If the Scheduler gives me an error like "274662" rather than some English,
it's obvious to me the Scheduler is a POS and I should not use it.
And of course,
If I cannot run RMAN from Oracle Scheduler, I'll use cron.
-Owen

Problem executing Unix script from Java...

Hi there, I'm having trouble executing a unix script from a java program. The script receives multiple parameters and it seems that one of them ( or more ) is not well interpreted. When I run the script directly from a shell, the script executes without any errors. But, when I run the exact same script with the exact same parameters, it does not work.
Here is the command to execute the script with all the parameters that is executed from the shell ( with success ) and also from the java program ( with errors ):
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Ok.
Let's proceed surgically, else we'll never solve or overcome anything.
In the last your reply you wrote:
the normal output is what I get when the script runs successfully, the script first prints a few things
and then does stuff that takes at least 2 or 3 secondsWhat do you mean?
-Finally have you got your script correctly executed?
The stuffs you spoke of are really performed?
If this is the case I can't see the prob.
Is your concern only about exitValue() for it doesn't let you distinguish programmatically
the success or failure of the script execution?
Of course you surely already have a routine in your java code to handle
exceptional situations of errors from the script.
And the "normal output" is just what you must parse to detect those errors.
Then who cares about exitValue() in this case?
Don't invoke it, relay on the stdout and stderr of the script.
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that let you think the script execution went alright, while instead it didn't.
In this case we have to investigate some other thing.
I can't still exclude that the problem isn't related with the buffer size of the stdout
allocated by the environment to the subprocess. You spoke of few things printed out.
Be explicit. What's the size of the output you get?
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Also it's important that you hit a ps command after the java main process terminates
(or simply when waitFor() returns) and see if the script subprocess hung up.
As an alternative approach directly call your pro*C code from Java through JNI, instead of translating it.
1. Exec.java
public class Exec{
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JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_Exec_proCFunct(JNIEnv * a, jclass b){
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5. cc -G -I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/solaris -I$YOUR_INCLUDES Exec.c -o libExec.so
6. setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .
7. java Exec

Accessing unix script from Apex

Hi There,
Is it possible to access unix script from apex?
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Please help!!
Thanks in advance,
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The solution depends on the purpose of the script.
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Wrap the script with SOAP/REST.
Example wrapper stuff:
http://soaplab.sourceforge.net/soaplab2/
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