I agree that there is lot of room for improvement in OID configuration :) It is a frustrating process to get it to work for such a simple purpose and if we didn't also plan to use it for EUS later, we might have tried a different approach. Once it is setup though, it has been very stable (no unplanned outages due to bugs, etc in the past 1+ years). We have two OID servers with replication setup. Each of them is hosted in a vmware environment. Regards, Vlado Barun, M.Sc. Senior Database Architect From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 12:21 PM To: Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: TNSNAMES Management Wow! Why have I not heard of this before??? I spent HOURS knocking my head against a brick wall to make OID work for service name resolution!! This simple AND free?? Damn! I missed out.... -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Database Administrator, System & Product Technologies ProQuest 789 E. Eisenhower, Parkway, P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 +1.734.997.4059 or +1.800.521.0600 x 4059 mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.proquest.com<http://www.proquest.com> www.csa.com<http://www.csa.com> ProQuest...Start here. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Goulet, Richard Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:57 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: TNSNAMES Management Folks, I'm looking for what people use today now that Onames has become history. This is a multi location within and outside the US and managing TNSNAMES.ORA files is well a PAIN. I'm especially interested in anyone who has or is using TnsManager from Andrew Barry (http://www.shutdownabort.com/tnsmanager/), especially with regard to support. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA PAREXEL International 2 Federal St Billerica, MA 01821 978.313.3426 Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx The information transmitted in this communication is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please destroy any copies, contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.