Starting/Stopping 9iAS Infrastructures with batch files

Question

I created the following two batch files to start and stop my iAS Infrastructure. I found that if I used the services settings of automatic, all did not go well.
start.bat:
@ECHO OFF
cls
ECHO About to start the listener
net start Oracle9ias_InfraTNSListener
ECHO About to start the database
net start OracleServiceIASDB
ECHO About to start the OID monitor
e:\ora9iasinfra\bin\oidmon start
ECHO About to start the OID server
e:\ora9iasinfra\bin\oidctl server=oidldapd configset=0 instance=1 start
ECHO About to start the website
net start Oracle9ias_infraEMWebsite
ECHO About to start opmn and OC4j
e:\ora9iasinfra\dcm\bin\dcmctl start -ct ohs
e:\ora9iasinfra\dcm\bin\dcmctl start -co OC4J_DAS
stop.bat:
@echo off
cls
ECHO About to stop the website
net stop Oracle9ias_infraEMWebsite
ECHO About to stop opmn and OC4j
e:\ora9iasinfra\dcm\bin\dcmctl shutdown
ECHO About to stop the OID server
e:\ora9iasinfra\bin\oidctl server=oidldapd configset=0 instance=1 stop
ECHO About to stop the OID monitor
e:\ora9iasinfra\bin\oidmon stop
ECHO About to stop the database
net stop OracleServiceIASDB
ECHO About to stop the listener
net stop Oracle9ias_InfraTNSListener
When I execute the batch files sometimes they work and sometimes they don't, for example after starting, occasionally the Apache process has not been created, and sometimes processes won't stop.
However if I enter each command seperatly all works OK. Can anyone suggest a reason for this, maybe ordering is significant or a time delay may be required between certain actions?. Also after starting the website manager the process managers for both the infra and ias instances are started (I have installed both the iAS and the Infrastucture on the same machine - this all works fine when started as a series of individual commands but not when through batch files).
Also If I try to use:
SQLPLUS /NOLOG
SQL>CONNECT sys/password@iasdb as sysdba
SQL>Start
I also get an 'unable to create a dedicated server' error. I can start/stop the database through the enterprise manager in either standalone or management server configuration without any errors. Can anyone shed any light on this?. I have set both TNS_ADMIN and ORACLE_SID correctly.
Terry Bennett

Answer 1

Thanks, I had read that and it was very informative. I did however solve my problem using a few other threads that have been posted about the runtime.runtime().exec commands. Thanks for you help.