Oracle Internet Directory

From Oracle FAQ

Oracle Internet Directory (OID) is a standard LDAP directory server. OID is part of the Oracle Application Server.

Contents 1 Start and stop the OID server 2 OID Utilities 2.1 LDAP bind 2.2 Add OID entries 2.3 Lookup OID entries 2.4 Modify an OID entry 2.5 Delete an OID entry

Start and stop the OID server

To start OID:

${ORACLE_HOME}/opmn/bin/opmnctl start

To stop:

${ORACLE_HOME}/opmn/bin/opmnctl stop

OID Utilities

Some related utilities to manage OID entries:

LDAP bind

Test if you can bind (connect) to the OID server:

$ ldapbind -p 389 -h my-host-name -D "cn=orcladmin"
bind successful

Add OID entries

Add an entry/ entries to the OID server:

$ ldapadd -h my-host-name -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" -w mypassword -f onames.ldif

Lookup OID entries

Lookup an SQL*Net Service Name (in the example below, extract orclnetdescstring for TESTENTRY) in the OID directory:

ldapsearch -h my-host-name -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" cn=TESTENTRY orclnetdescstring

Modify an OID entry

ldapmodify ...

Delete an OID entry

ldapdelete -h my-host-name -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" -w mypassword "cn=TESTENTRY,cn=OracleContext,dc=mycompany,dc=com"