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RE: Names server

From: Karniotis, Stephen <Stephen_Karniotis_at_compuware.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 06:28:35 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0041F82B.20020305062835@fatcity.com>


I agree with everyone. Oracle Names saved many days/months of maintenance time in migrating new TNSNAMES to over 30000 desktops. The only gotchas with ON was the creation of a separate Administrative database and 24x7 maintenance of it. With the new extensibility features not requiring a database, that job was made much easier.

However, the move to LDAP will benefit you even more because all you need to do is put an entry in the directory server for the instances and "magic" occurs. I personally hate the concept of the TNSNAMES file because if violates the "knowledge" security standard of knowing what databases are within the environment. Any savvy user can figure out how to hack in once they have that kind of information.

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
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Sent:	Monday, March 04, 2002 6:08 PM
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Subject:	RE: Names server

I agree with you Jared. On the last job we had TNSNAMES files out to everyones work station ..... got to be a pain. Installed Names, created the right files ..... bingo, all worked . Very easy.

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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:29 PM
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Completely removing names from Oracle would be a mistake IMO.

Reason: Name is fairly easy to implement, LDAP is anything but.

Jared

"Freeman, Robert " <Robert_Freeman_at_csx.com> Sent by: root_at_fatcity.com
03/04/02 01:38 PM
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Names server is depreciated in 9i, but still there. They were going to remove it, but I think there was a bit of a backlash, so
they have delayed
the removal.
OID (LDAP) is the replacement.  

We use names server here, have found it to be pretty stable and reduced tnsnames.ora
administration nicely.  

RF  

Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration

The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.  

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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:53 PM
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Names server will be obsolete in 9i, I think.

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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:33 AM
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Hi ALL:

    Is any one using names server out there? How the it works? Any infor are wellcome.

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