Re: Oracle 8i/HP-UX,Solaris,Windows/Active Directory Question

Thanks Jesse

I am going to start it with 9.2.0 so hopefully it will be better.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> Yechiel,
>
> We weren't able to get OID replication to be stable for more than a few
> weeks under 9.0.1. After a week or two, it would just flake out like it
> needed to make more than 10 or 20 connections to the DBs and it halted.
The
> only solution was to bounce OID -- not the DBs, just the LDAP part. This
> interruption also caused problems with the replication. In more than one
> instance, we needed to fully rebuild the slave. Since we only have about
> 1000 entries, it was no big deal to recreate (<15 minutes), but unnerving
> enough that we felt that a replicated OID was not ready for a production
> environment. Aparently, we were one of the first to attempt to use OID on
> Linux as Oracle Support didn't even have a Linux box to verify some of the
> problems we had. They had claimed to be running replicated OID on Solaris
> (and maybe Winders -- I forget) without major problems, however, since our
> LDAP project dropped OID in favor of Sun One (with full replication), I
have
> no reason to test it.
>
> As far as our failover, we developed a load balancer in house that would
> automagically detect which LDAP boxes were available and use those. For
> startup and shutdown of OID and, optionally, replication, I developed some
> scripts in Korn for our Linux boxes. If you'd like a copy, I'll make them
> available with the standard legal disclaimers.
>
> Mike, check with your Oracle Sales Rep on licensing for OID. It comes
with
> 9iAS, but I don't know if it's separately licensable. If you really
really
> really want to use Active Death -- erm, "Directory" -- you'll still need
to
> have OID act as a gateway between it and Oracle. As far as the Oracle
DB's
> concerned, it only talks to OID. Marketing will tell you that the DB
talks
> to any v3-compliant LDAP, but they don't tell you it's only thru the
> separately licensable OID. Well, I should say by "supported" means
because
> a co-worker was able to get Oracle Networking to talk with Sun One by
> converting Oracle's proprietary LDIFs (don't let them tell you their LDIF
> files are fully v3-compliant!!!) to standards. Also, be prepared to be
> GUI-fied. There are many operations with OID, particularly in the
> installation and setup, that are GUI-only!
>
> Also, 7.x cannot authenticate or do names resolution to LDAP. I'm not
sure,
> but I think that started with 8i.
>
> I need to stop babbling now and get back to work... ;)
>
> HTH! GL! :)
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
USA
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:adar76_at_inter.net.il]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:24 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: Oracle 8i/HP-UX,Solaris,Windows/Active Directory Question
> >
> >
> > I am currently busy with the same project. Junk tnsnames.ora for OID.
> > I installed OID 9.2.0.1.
> > I then converted the tnsnames.ora to OID entries with no problems.
> > I then tried to access the OID from 8.1.6 client and got zilch, nada,
> > gurnisht etc. .
> > After Deborah from Oracle Israel came in she told me that I need to
> > create the Oracle Context under an entry in the root and not in the
> > OID root itself. After we did that 8.1.6 and 9.2.0.1 clients worked
> > with OID version 9.2.0.1.
> >
> > Still testing on my machine. After we solve the problem of replication
> > and Failover (two OID servers with the client automatically switching
> > from one to the other in case of failure (not clustering))
> > I will think about moving it to the users.
> >
> > Yechiel Adar
> > Mehish
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:08 AM
> >
> >
> > > Happy Holidays Everyone!
> > >
> > > I have been hacking around the MetalLink site looking for how to
> > > move from using a TNSNAMES.ORA file to Active Directory. We use a
> > > mixed environment of HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows, with versions
> > > of Oracle from 7.3.4 (really!) to 9iR2.
> > >
> > > All the notes and docs I can find seem to be only for a Windows
> > > environment. Any pointers to docs or tips would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > ==============================================================
> > =============
> > > Michael P. Vergara
> > > Oracle DBA
> > > Guidant Corporation
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