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RE: Onames and various connections scenarios

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:59:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CD841.20030827105926@fatcity.com>


Bob,

I was doing this on a Win2k client connecting to onames on Solaris.

This was with 8.1.7.4 on the client and 8.1.7.2 on the client.

Better check MetaLink.

Jared

"Bob Metelsky" <bmetelsky_at_cps92.com>
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Hello Jared  

    I did not know that the client could call the "default" name server... from sqlnet.ora... pretty cool.
However, there now seems to be some bugs (no..)....  

It seems the namesctl ignores the arg to use a user defined path eg a file does *not* gets created in C:\temp
 BUT.... an *empty* tnsnames files does get created in the %oracle_home%\network\admin
PROVIDING there is *not* an existing tnsnames there, if there is, namesctl simply creates a copy of the *existing* tnsnames with a .sav extension !
Ive tested this on my machine running 8.1.7.4 all our client/user pcs here are 8.17 0r 8.16  

Im running w2k pro on all our client machines  

maybe I discoverd a bug in Oracle! <g>  

thanks!
bob

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examples  

namesctl dump_tnsnames c:\temp\tnsnames.txt creates the above scenario  

the output  

C:\>namesctl dump_tnsnames c:\temp\tnsnames.txt  

Oracle Names Control for 32-bit Windows: Version 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on 27-AUG-2003 11:31:39  
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
 

Currently managing name server "NS_CPSDB2" Version banner is "Oracle Names for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production"        

No need to do it quite the way you are attempting.

c:> namesctl dump_tnsnames c:\temp\tnsnames.txt

worked fine for me. The default server is ns_ns1

Had I wanted to do this from another server, say ns2, I would have gone directly into namesctl, then issued the command 'set server ns_ns2'

Jared

"Bob Metelsky" <bmetelsky_at_cps92.com>
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No doubt im in the wrong ball field here but this is what I have

Windows 2k
Server1 Ns1 on 8.1.7.4
Server2 Ns2 on 9.2.0.1.0

[server1]
C:\> start \\server1\bin\namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt It creates an empty file on my (remote) machine

>From the server C:\> namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt it creats an empty C:\mytnsnames.txt

[server2]
C:\> start \\server2\bin\namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt And it creates an empty file on my (remote) machine

>From the server itself it creats a full C:\mytnsnames.txt file with all the connect discriptors

How is this supposed to be called?

Thanks!

> Bob,
> 
> I understand what you are saying (and your pain). My 
> suggestion would be to use the 'namesctl dump_tnsnames' 
> command to dump out the current Onames repository to the PC's 
> $TNS_ADMIN dir via a login script or SMS. You might want o 
> rename the current TNSNAMES.ORA file just prior to that as 
> dump_tnsnames adds to the end of the current one and doesn't 
> handle changes very well.
> 
> Hth,
> John Kanagaraj
> DB Soft Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> Hello All
> 
>                  Im back from the trenches to post a quick request for 
> help....<g>
> 
> Ive setup onames on 2 servers and standard applications, (our app and
> sqlplus) connect just fine, a problem situation manifests itself when:
> 
> 1 users need to connect (add a database) to dba studio. They 
> get a error to the effect "cant resolve host name" And the 
> other 2. Users connect to remote databases (via vpn) that are 
> in our onames but many  of these vpn connections once made do 
> not allow access to
> *our* network resources.
> 
> So basically almost all of oour users have one or more of 
> these secenarios which means they will need to maintain a 
> tnsnames file as well.
> 
> I'm managing about 70+ connect discriptors.... And I was 
> hoping onames could be a centralised answer
> 
> Is this common? Or is there a workaround?
> 
> Thanks!
> bob
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