Thanks Jesse I am going to start it with 9.2.0 so hopefully it will be better.
Yechiel Adar Mehish ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:44 PM > Yechiel, > > We weren't able to get OID replication to be stable for more than a few > weeks under 9.0.1. After a week or two, it would just flake out like it > needed to make more than 10 or 20 connections to the DBs and it halted. The > only solution was to bounce OID -- not the DBs, just the LDAP part. This > interruption also caused problems with the replication. In more than one > instance, we needed to fully rebuild the slave. Since we only have about > 1000 entries, it was no big deal to recreate (<15 minutes), but unnerving > enough that we felt that a replicated OID was not ready for a production > environment. Aparently, we were one of the first to attempt to use OID on > Linux as Oracle Support didn't even have a Linux box to verify some of the > problems we had. They had claimed to be running replicated OID on Solaris > (and maybe Winders -- I forget) without major problems, however, since our > LDAP project dropped OID in favor of Sun One (with full replication), I have > no reason to test it. > > As far as our failover, we developed a load balancer in house that would > automagically detect which LDAP boxes were available and use those. For > startup and shutdown of OID and, optionally, replication, I developed some > scripts in Korn for our Linux boxes. If you'd like a copy, I'll make them > available with the standard legal disclaimers. > > Mike, check with your Oracle Sales Rep on licensing for OID. It comes with > 9iAS, but I don't know if it's separately licensable. If you really really > really want to use Active Death -- erm, "Directory" -- you'll still need to > have OID act as a gateway between it and Oracle. As far as the Oracle DB's > concerned, it only talks to OID. Marketing will tell you that the DB talks > to any v3-compliant LDAP, but they don't tell you it's only thru the > separately licensable OID. Well, I should say by "supported" means because > a co-worker was able to get Oracle Networking to talk with Sun One by > converting Oracle's proprietary LDIFs (don't let them tell you their LDIF > files are fully v3-compliant!!!) to standards. Also, be prepared to be > GUI-fied. There are many operations with OID, particularly in the > installation and setup, that are GUI-only! > > Also, 7.x cannot authenticate or do names resolution to LDAP. I'm not sure, > but I think that started with 8i. > > I need to stop babbling now and get back to work... ;) > > HTH! GL! :) > > Rich > > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:24 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: Re: Oracle 8i/HP-UX,Solaris,Windows/Active Directory Question > > > > > > I am currently busy with the same project. Junk tnsnames.ora for OID. > > I installed OID 9.2.0.1. > > I then converted the tnsnames.ora to OID entries with no problems. > > I then tried to access the OID from 8.1.6 client and got zilch, nada, > > gurnisht etc. . > > After Deborah from Oracle Israel came in she told me that I need to > > create the Oracle Context under an entry in the root and not in the > > OID root itself. After we did that 8.1.6 and 9.2.0.1 clients worked > > with OID version 9.2.0.1. > > > > Still testing on my machine. After we solve the problem of replication > > and Failover (two OID servers with the client automatically switching > > from one to the other in case of failure (not clustering)) > > I will think about moving it to the users. > > > > Yechiel Adar > > Mehish > > ----- Original Message ----- > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:08 AM > > > > > > > Happy Holidays Everyone! > > > > > > I have been hacking around the MetalLink site looking for how to > > > move from using a TNSNAMES.ORA file to Active Directory. We use a > > > mixed environment of HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows, with versions > > > of Oracle from 7.3.4 (really!) to 9iR2. > > > > > > All the notes and docs I can find seem to be only for a Windows > > > environment. Any pointers to docs or tips would be appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mike > > > > > > --- > > > > > ============================================================== > > ============= > > > Michael P. Vergara > > > Oracle DBA > > > Guidant Corporation > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Jesse, Rich > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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