Enabling Agent Self-Registration

To ensure correct operation over heterogeneous database links, agent self-registration automates updates to Heterogeneous Services configuration data that describe agents on remote hosts. Agent self-registration is the default behavior. If you do not want to use the agent self-registration feature, set the HS_AUTOREGISTER initialization parameter to FALSE.

Both the server and the agent rely on three types of information to configure and control operation of the Heterogeneous Services connection. These three sets of information are collectively called HS configuration data:

Heterogeneous Services Configuration Data	Description
Heterogeneous Services initialization parameters	Provide control over various connection-specific details of operation.
Capability definitions	Identify details like SQL language features supported by the non-Oracle data source.
Data dictionary translations	Map references to Oracle data dictionary tables and views into equivalents specific to the non-Oracle data source.