Oracle Net8 Assistant HELP

Oracle Net8 Assistant HELP Contents

The Oracle Net8 Assistant is a tool to help you configure and manage your Oracle networking environment with Net8.

The following Net8 features and components are available to configure and/or manage using Oracle Net8 Assistant:

Profile

A profile is a collection of parameters that allow a client or server to specify preferences for the use of certain Net8 features.

Click on the Profile folder to configure a profile for either a client or server. For more information, click on "Using a Profile".

Service Names

Service Names are simple, easy to remember names commonly used to specify the identity and location of database services on a network. In order to connect to a specific database service, users will specify their username/password and the service name of the database service they wish to connect during any standard database logon process. If you are using neither Oracle Names nor an external naming service, you may configure service names and addresses locally with each client.

Double-click on the Service Names folder to configure service names locally. For more information, click on "Using Service Names".

Oracle Names Servers

Oracle Names Servers provide a distributed naming service that helps to simplify the set up and administration of your Oracle network. If you are using Oracle Names, double-click on the Oracle Names Servers folder to configure, manage and operate Names Servers. For more information, click on "Using Oracle Names Servers".

Oracle Net8 Assistant HELP contains the following sections:

"Using Service Names"

"Using a Profile"

"Using Oracle Names Servers"

Configuring a Names Server

Managing a Names Server

Managing Names Server Data

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