Oracle7 Server Distributed Systems Volume I: Distributed Data

CHAPTER 2. Network Administration

This chapter introduces networking concepts and terminology that anyone planning to implement a distributed system must be familiar with. It also discusses the tasks that network administrators must perform to set up client-server systems and integrate Oracle's network products into a distributed system.

For related information of interest to DBAs, see Chapter 4, "Database Administration". Chapter 3, "Network Administration Tools", provides an introduction to Oracle's network administration tools.

It is assumed that you have read and are familiar with the concepts and terms in Chapter 1, "Understanding Distributed Systems", and in Understanding SQL*Net.

Note: This chapter is not intended to be a step-by-step guide to implementing networked distributed systems. References in most sections are provided to the relevant Oracle Network Products and Oracle7 Server documentation which does contain step-by-step instructions and detailed reference material.