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"Beauty
in things exist in the mind which
contemplates them."
-David
Hume (1711-1776)
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What is a Directory?
It is a different structure
database that stores data, which can be searched easily for a special
purpose.
What is LDAP?
LDAP is a lightweight of
DAP. It is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard. An LDAP
directory is organized in the form of a simple hierarchical tree known
as Directory Information Tree (DIT).
What is DAP?
It is a protocol to access
database directory – Directory Access Protocol (DAP).
What is OID?
OID or Oracle Internet
Directory is Oracle’s implementation of LDAP. It provides directory
services to the Oracle database and the Oracle Application Server.
What are the security
benefits of OID?
OID – Oracle
Internet Directory provides the following security benefits:
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Data integrity
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Data confidentiality
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Password protection
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Data access control
What are OID Monitor and
OID Control Utilities?
OID Monitor Utility
initiates, monitors, and terminates the OID server processes. All the
activities are logged in the $ORACLE_HOME/ldap/log/oidmon.log file.
The OID Monitor process must be running to process commands from OID
control utility. To start/stop the OID Monitor process do the
following:
# oidmon connect=net_service_name
sleep=10 start/stop -- the command starts/stops OID monitor and every
10 seconds checks to restart any servers that may have stopped not by
the “stop” option.
OID Control Utility stops
and starts the server OID instance processes.
What is Oracle Directory
Manager?
It is a Java-based GUI tool
to maintain and administer Oracle Internet Directory data. By default
the port in which the OID instance is running is 389 or 4032.
To run it just enter #
oidadmin
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