Chapter 38
Automating Distribution of Oracle Client Software
Charles Mansfield
In today’s client/server environment, Oracle administrators face the challenge of maintaining thousands of PCs that contain Oracle client software. Automating the distribution of Oracle software on each desktop is a formidable challenge, and most companies hire a staff of PC technicians whose job it is to manually distribute Oracle software to the PCs.
This chapter presents a solution to the time-consuming task of software distribution. With current technology, it is possible to automate the distribution using batch scripts and imports of Registry files in the Windows 95 and NT environment. Instead of requiring a visit to each PC to run the Oracle installer, the ...
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