Tell me about NAMESCTL

[nontrad]

I am working on Oracle 8.1.6 with a SUN/Unix OS. I am a P/T student with no backup, or anyone to ask, about Oracle DBA.

I found a script on another site that monitors the system for TNSLNSR, running processes, etc and sends an e-mail if any of it goes down. One of the things it checks is to see if NAMESCTL is running or not.

Well, I ran the script and found out that NAMESCTL is NOT running. What does NAMESCTL do? Is this something that should be running or does it depend on how the network is set up? I wouldn't want to start it up until I am sure.

Any information is appreciated.

E.

 

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

hey,

not 100% certain but pretty sure that process (if running) would be an Oracle Names server. think of it as DNS for SQL*Net (and tnsnames.ora as /etc/hosts). if your clients have explicit connection info in their tnsnames.ora then you don't need it (I'm assuming your users wouldn't be bashful about letting you know if they couldn't connect. I'd just comment that check out of the script.

good luck!

 

[rishiu]

Net8 provides the following tools to help you start, test and control each network component.

Oracle Names Control Utility - NAMESCTL
Listener Control Utility - LSNRCTL
Connection Manager Control Utility - CMCTL

The Oracle Names Control Utility, NAMESCTL, is a tool that you run from the operating system prompt to start and control the Names Server.

The general form of the Oracle Names Control Utility is:

NAMESCTL command

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