Is there any way to find the list of Oracle DBs installed on a UNIX server?

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Vivek picture Vivek · Apr 24, 2012 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

I know there are Oracle DBs installed on my UNIX server. Is there any way to get those DB names? I'm using Sun OS.

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MichaelN picture MichaelN · Apr 24, 2012

You can also try ps -ef | grep -i pmon. Each running pmon process would be for one DB and base on the pmon name your database would be ora_pmon_<db sid>. There could be additional DBs that are not running currently but this would give you the active running database on a Sun box. Also check the /var/opt/oracle/oratab as mention above for the listing of the DBs if the DB admin is keeping the DB properly listed in oratab.

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