Welcome to Oracle Net Configuration Assistant. The Oracle Net Configuration allows you to configure basic network components after installation.
Select this option to create modify, delete or rename, a listener. The listener is a process on the server that receives and responds to client connection requests for a database. Clients using connect descriptors configured with the same protocol addresses can send a connection request to the listener.
Note: This option is not available on clients.
Select this option to configure naming methods. When an end user connects to a database service, a connect string that identifies the service through a simple name, called a connect identifier, is used. A connect identifier can be the actual name of the service or a net service name. The connect identifier is resolved to a connect descriptor, which contains the network location and identification of the service, by a naming method. You can configure this computer to resolve connect identifiers using any of the following methods:
Additionally, if the local naming method is selected on the client, you are prompted to configure connect descriptors in a client-side tnsnames.ora file.
Select this option to create, modify, delete, rename, or test connectivity of a connect descriptor stored in a local tnsnames.ora file.
Select this option to configure usage of a LDAP-compliant directory server, if you plan to use:
Directory naming to centrally administer connect identifiers
Enterprise user security for use with Oracle Advanced Security
Other Oracle product features that use a centralized directory server to store entries
Reconfigure Listener Configuration
Create a Net Service Name in a tnsnames.ora File
Modify the Configuration for a Net Service Name
Test Net Service Name Connectivity
Configure a Directory for Oracle Usage
Configure an Oracle Home to Use Directory Features
Oracle Net Services Configuration Overview
Copyright © 1996, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.