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Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting
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Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting

by Hugo Toledo, Jonathan Gennick
December 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
12h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

NAMES.ADMIN_REGION

Synopsis

NAMES.ADMIN_REGION =
  (REGION =
    (DESCRIPTION =
      ({(ADDRESS = address_data)
       |(ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = address_data)
                        [(ADDRESS = address_data)...])}
      (CONNECT_DATA =
        {(SERVICE_NAME = database_service)
        |(SID = sid_name)}
        [(SOURCE_ROUTE = [ON | OFF])]
        [(SERVER = [DEDICATED | SHARED])]
      )
    )
    (USERID = database_username)
    (PASSWORD = database_password)
    [(REFRESH = refresh_interval)]
    [(RETRY = retry_interval)]
    [(EXPIRE = expiration_interval)]
    (VERSION = version_number)
  )

Specifies the database that is to be used as a region database, and also specifies the login information that the Names server should use when connecting to that database. The region database is where a Names server stores net service name definitions. There is no default value for NAMES.ADMIN_REGION. If no database is specified, then net service name definitions are held in memory. In that case, each Names server attempts to replicate net service name definitions to other Names servers in the same region.

Tip

If you want multiple Names servers to share the same net service name definitions, that’s a lot easier to accomplish if you use a region database than if you depend on replication.

Parameters

address_data

The protocol address for the database service name that contains the repository. See NAMES.ADDRESSES for a description of this parameter.

database_service

The name of the database service to be used as a repository by this Names server for net service name definitions. This is the preferred method ...

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