Re: Oracle net management tools

[Quoted] I deal with several dozen databases on Novell, UNIX and NT from 7.3.2 to 8.1.5. I do all of my configuration work in tnsnames.ora, listener.ora and sqlnet.ora by hand. If you read the documentation you'll see that the GUIs Oracle provides can't handle everything you might want to do anyway. I've never had tech support get upset. I suspect many of them alter these files by hand as well. There's really not enough to this to warrant a third party tool. Possibly that's why you're not finding one.

Van

Fred Pierce <fpierce_at_avialantic.com> wrote in message news:389AD5A0.E2697B3_at_avialantic.com...
> There are lots of cool tools for Oracle db design and administration,
> but I've seen little/nothing for managing SQLNet/Net8. Oracle doesn't
> even package its Net Assist and config guis with its client software -
> it is bundled with the server, but then tech support gets upset if you
> say you manually edit the tnsnames file. For example, if I have a DEC
> server and want to configure a Solaris client, I have to either manually
> edit the files or download the whole server just to get the gui tools.
>
> Am I the only one who has to deal with a mixture of platforms, clients,
> etc. and finds it difficult to keep track of, organize, and configure
> them? Seems like there would be a market for a good network management
> tool. I believe I saw something somewhere for formatting the listener
> log but that's about it. At the very least it would be nice if Oracle
> would package the gui tools with the client SW.
>
> Any thoughts? Anyone know if any such tools exist?
>
> thanks,
>
> fdp
>
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