RE: OID vs Oracle Names Server vs TNSNAMES.ORA vs MAD
- To: <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:53:33 -0500
Dick, do you have documentation for installing 10g OID? I posted
//www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/09-2005/msg00156.html three
weeks ago, but got no hits.
The only reason I need to get OID running is that while OpenLDAP does
work (we tested using SunOne) for Oracle names resolution, it is not
supported by Oracle. Been there, done that, don't want to do it again.
Sorry for being late on the thread, but I was out for a few weeks...
Thx!
Rich
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:10 PM
To: stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l
Subject: RE: OID vs Oracle Names Server vs TNSNAMES.ORA vs MAD
Stephen,
We're using Onames, very successfully to boot, but our
circumstances may not be the same as yours. We found that TNSNAMES.ora
files were a royal pain in the ___. Especially if we kept then on each
persons desktop. It made figuring out where anyone was going a real
nightmare and the remote offices were a real pain to keep current.
Onames killed all of those problems in one swoop. Now yea Onames is
deprecated & obsolete in 10g so we're planning a move over to OID. The
reason we're going to use OID instead of AD is simply a division of work
(as you alluded to). Our NT admins, for lack of a better term, are
using AD to manage the usernames & passwords of everyone connecting to
the network. Yes they could also do the OID equivalent, but are not
inclined to do so & don't want to grant access, for what I believe is
good reason, to us. Consequently we've agreed to use OID for Oracle
names resolution and AD for everything else if possible. We're even
looking into single signon to see how that would work with AD as the
repository. If your client in this case wants to move from tnsnames.ora
files to oid as a central repository for name resolution, then I'd
recommend it. Having one place to stash that stuff is much better than
a couple hundred.
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