Understand Agent Self-Registration

The Heterogeneous Services agent self-registration feature can perform the following tasks:

• Identify the agent and the non-Oracle data store to the Oracle database server

• Permit agents to define Heterogeneous Services initialization parameters for use both by the agent and connected Oracle servers

• Upload capability definitions and data dictionary translations, if available, from a Heterogeneous Services agent during connection initialization

  Note:

  The upload of class information occurs only when the class is undefined in the server data dictionary. Similarly, instance information is uploaded only if the instance is undefined in the server data dictionary.

The information required for agent self-registration is accessed in the server data dictionary by using these agent-supplied names:

• FDS_CLASS

• FDS_CLASS_VERSION

  See Also:

  Heterogeneous Services Data Dictionary Views to learn how to use the Heterogeneous Services data dictionary views