Welcome to the Net8 Configuration Assistant in Custom installation mode. You can configure basic elements of the network, including:
Directory Server Access configuration
Configures client or server access to a LDAP-compliant directory server, if you plan to use:Listener configuration (Server Only)
Creates a listener with one or more protocol addresses. The listener is a process on the server that receives and responds to client connection requests for a database. Clients using connect descriptors configured with the same protocol addresses can send a connection request to the listener.
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Note: This option is not available on clients. |
Naming Methods configuration
When an end user connects to a database service, a connect string that identifies the service through a simple name, called a connect identifier, is used. A connect identifier can be the actual name of the service or a net service name. The connect identifier is resolved to a connect descriptor, which contains the network location and identification of the service, by a naming method. You can configure this computer to resolve connect identifiers using any of the following methods:
Additionally, if the local naming method is selected on the client, you are prompted to configure connect descriptors in a client-side tnsnames.ora file.
Perform a typical configuration
Select to configure the following:
The computer's network domain will automatically be selected as the default domain. The domain will be appended to any unqualified net service name given in the connect string then compared to net service names stored in a tnsnames.ora file or Oracle Names server. For example, if the client tnsnames.ora file contains a net service name of sales.us.acme.com, the user can enter the followng connect string:
CONNECT scott/tiger@sales
sales gets searched as sales.us.acme.com.
One net service name will automatically be established for connections to external procedures.
The Net8 Configuration Assistant will prompt you to configure a net service name for a client connection to the database.
You are prompted to configure access to a directory server.
One address will use TCP/IP on port 1521 and the other will use IPC for client connections to the Oracle database.
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Note: The Net8 Configuration Assistant provides basic configuration. For more advanced configuration operations, or to configure other portions of Net8 that this tool does not cover, use the Net8 Assistant. |