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What is oobping?

oobping is a small program that has been distributed with the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge since version 1.0.0.35. oobping is a valuable tool for checking ODBC-ODBC Bridge connectivity and diagnosing connection problems or connection timing issues.

On Windows, oobping.exe is located in installdir\Easysoft\ODBC-ODBC Bridge.

On Linux and UNIX, there are two versions of oobping: oobpings (a statically linked version) and oobpingd (a dynamically linked version, which is linked against the libesoobclient shared object). The location for these programs is: installation_dir/easysoft/bin. To use oobpingd, you may need to set and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_RUN_PATH, or LIBPATH to include the ODBC-ODBC Bridge client and lib directories (for example, /usr/local/easysoft/oob/client and /usr/local/easysoft/lib).

oobping has the following command line:

oobping [-h host | -d ODBC_connection_string] {-t port} {-u osuser} {-p ospassword} {-e}

where:

Option Description
-h host The name or IP address of the machine where the ODBC-ODBC Bridge server is running.
-d ODBC_connection_string The ODBC connection string. For example, DSN=test;UID=andrew;PWD=p455yw0rd;.

If you specify -u and -p as well as -d, LogonUser=xxx;LogonAuth=yyy; is added to the end of the connection string, where xxx and yyy are the values specified for -u and -p.
-t port The port on which the ODBC-ODBC Bridge server is listening.
-u osuser A valid operating system user name on the ODBC-ODBC Bridge server machine.
-p ospassword The password for this user.
-e The time taken to complete the requested operation (added in ODBC-ODBC Bridge 1.1.0.0).

If you're unable to connect your application to your database through the ODBC-ODBC Bridge, use oobping to help diagnose the problem.