Structure of This Book
When we designed this book, we tried to collect in one place all the essential information that you need to work with Net8. We’ve divided this information into four parts:
Part I, provides an introduction to Net8, its architecture, its functionality, and its major components. It includes the following chapters:
Chapter 1, introduces Net8 and describes the various components that combine to implement Net8’s functionality. Chapter 1 also discusses stack communications and provides a brief overview of Net8’s management utilities.
Chapter 2, discusses name resolution, which is the process of taking a human-readable network address and correlating it with a specific network address that is meaningful to the underlying network protocol being used. Net8 supports several different naming methods, each useful in different situations.
Part II, comprises the major portion of the book. Here you’ll find chapters showing how to configure Net8 on the server and on the client. You’ll learn to configure advanced features such as load balancing and failover, and you’ll learn about LDAP, Oracle Names, and Connection Manager. Part II includes the following chapters:
Chapter 3, describes the process of configuring Net8 on clients that need to query an Oracle database across a network.
Chapter 4, shows you how to configure Net8 on a server. Most of this chapter is focused on the task of getting a Net8 listener up and running.
Chapter 5, describes MTS, the feature of Net8 that allows ...