Oracle7 Server Distributed Systems Volume I: Distributed Data

CHAPTER 3. Network Administration Utilities

This chapter discusses some of SQL*Net's administrative capabilities and utilities. It also discusses some of the tasks you perform to configure and maintain your network.

Topics covered include:

SQL*Net's administrative features

password encryption

client-side load balancing

connection route testing with ping

SNMP support

diagnostic logging and tracing capabilities

Network Manager

distributing configuration files

testing your configuration

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for information on database administration utilities such as Server Manager, which lets a DBA administer and maintain a database.