Re: Oracle Names

From: Jose Luis Delgado <joseluis_delgado_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:06:33 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B0697.20030612104005@fatcity.com>

Dennis...

> 1. Are any of you using the Oracle Names?

I am! :-)

> 2. Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it
> sound, or is it difficult?

it is an easy task, Oracle has Net Manager on 9i, and Net8 Assistant on 8i... both guides you through the configuration, where you need to define regions.

> 3. Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet
> another single point of failure.

I think so... I have two names servers, the second is just if the first one fails.

Of course, I can obtain network load balancing using both. :-)

> 4. Oracle hinted that Oracle Names is going away in
> favor of LDAP. Is this
> imminent, or just a scare tactic? I had held off
> using Names because of
> this, but the company has made a commitment to MS
> Active Directory, which I
> gather from the list postings isn't very compatible
> with Oracle's LDAP.
>

Sorry! :-( I don't know!

I though that LDAP was like a standard (so, Active Directory should be compatible with Oracle's LDAP).

Here we use Active Directory, but we do not use Oracle's LDAP (yet :-)).

HTH
JL

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