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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Networking Management Utilities

This section describes a variety of utilities used to manage Oracle Net Services. The general goal of these utilities is to make it easier to implement and manage network communication. We provide descriptions for the network management utilities most commonly used for Oracle9i. For command-line utilities, the executable names are shown in the list:

Listener Control utility (lsnrctl)

A command-line utility for managing the Oracle listener. You can also start the listener automatically as a service on some operating system platforms, like Windows, and you can embed your lsnrctl commands in a startup script on Unix and Linux systems.

Oracle Names Control utility (namesctl)

A command-line utility for managing Oracle Names. For more information on the commands used by the Oracle Names Control utility, see the Oracle documentation.

Oracle Connection Manager Control utility (cmctl)

A command-line utility for managing the Oracle Connection Manager. For more information on the commands used by the Oracle Connection Manager utility, see the Oracle documentation.

TNSPing utility (tnsping)

A command-line utility used to check the connection between an Oracle Net Services client and server.

Oracle Net Manager

A GUI management tool that allows you to create, discover, and test configurations for the listener, connection, and Oracle Names.

Configuration Assistant

A GUI management tool used during the installation process to configure listener names, protocol addresses, ...

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