Re: Stand-alone Oracle Names

Thomas Vanya wrote:

> I have always run Oracle Names on the same box as the database that
> contains the Oracle Names data. Of course, that is not a requirement as I
> also run Names on other nodes for redundancy.

Currently, this is the way we do things as well. We have two Oracle instances on separate machines that we are running Oracle Names on for redundancy. However, the question was asked "we aren't we putting this on the same machines as the DNS? They basically require the same uptime so why not put them together?"

> I would think there would be
> possible licensing issues as Oracle Names comes as part of SQLNet. I don't
> know that you can purchase standalone SQLNet with Oracle Names without
> purchasing a complete Server license as well. You would have to install
> SQLNet as well since Oracle Names must make an initial connection to an
> Oracle database in order to load the SQLNet connection information for the
> other Oracle databases to which you wish to connect.

Actually, I think that we gather the SQL*Net connection information from flatfiles generated by the Oracle Network Manager. In this way, the database does not have to be up for client requests to be served and the clients can connect to other instances. So I'm guessing that we don't need to have SQL*Net... Of course, Oracle Names may not install separately.

Regardless, testing starts Monday. :)

Dean Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 16:31:51 CDT