RE: Oracle Names

What do you need to know about EMC SANs? If I don't know the answer, I can probably point you in the right direction of who to talk to @ EMC.

Thanks,
Matt

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> Subject: RE: Oracle Names

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> 

> Dennis,

> 

>       Your welcome, Now if only I could get 10% of the 

> response on HP & EMC Sans that you got on Names!!

> 

> Dick Goulet

> Senior Oracle DBA

> Oracle Certified 8i DBA 

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> 

> Jared, Brad, Jacques, Stephen, Thomas, Jose, Richard, Rich, 

> Mladen, Ravi, John, Gene, Dick, and anyone I left out. Thanks 

> very much for sharing the information on not only Oracle 

> Names but the other alternatives. You have given me a gold 

> mine of information to approach this issue. This list is 

> WONDERFUL!! Thanks everyone.

>    Even if we choose not to implement Names, it will give me 

> some incentive to study those chapters for the OCP Net 

> Administration module, which is the only one I have left.

> 

> Dennis Williams

> DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA

> Lifetouch, Inc.

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> 

> Re pushing the tnsnames.ora out to desktops:

> 

> I considered that, but there were too many versions of it out there, 

> and the users may have ODBC DSN' s dependent on the contents

> of their tnsnames.ora.

> 

> Re the share drive:  Considered that too, but it's too easy 

> for net admins to re-arrange drives without advance warning. 

> ( it has happened )

> 

> I compromised.  The tnsnames.ora stays on the desktops.

> 

> The sqlnet.ora has this line:

> 

> 

> NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH = (ONAMES, TNSNAMES)

> 

> so that their tnsnames will still work, but I can make 

> changes in the name servers without worrying about their 

> tnsnames files.

> 

> Updating the names servers is pretty simple, and I don't have 

> to schedule a change to all the desktops.

> 

> Works for me anyway.

> 

> Jared

> 

> 

> 

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> Stephen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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> 

> I never liked names, but that's just me.  I thought keeping 

> the names servers up to date, and making sure every client 

> was configured to use the name servers, was a pain in the 

> butt.  You can have multiple names servers to eliminate a 

> single point of failure.

> 

> The method I liked the best was to have the PC admin people 

> push a new tnsnames.ora out to client machines using push 

> software.  Let THEM fuss 

> with

> it!

> 

> Another method that works is to have the tnsnames.ora on a 

> share and stick 

> a

> shortcut on the client desktop that will update the local 

> tnsnames.ora 

> when

> the user clicks on it.

> 

> > -----Original Message-----

> > 

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

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

> > it difficult?

> > 3. Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another 

> > single point of

> > failure.

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