Preface

Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide describes how to use Oracle Net Services. This guide describes the Oracle Net Services product and its components, as well as Oracle Net Services administrative and deployment topics. This preface contains the following topics:

Audience

Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide is intended for the following readers:

  • Network administrators

  • Directory server administrators

  • Database administrators

  • Decision makers

This guide is especially targeted for network administrators who are responsible for ensuring connectivity. For network administrators, Oracle recommends:

For directory administrators, Oracle recommends:

For database administrators, Oracle recommends:

For decision makers, Oracle recommends

Oracle recommends that all readers look over Part I, to ensure that they have the background required to benefit from the rest of the guide.

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Related Documentation

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Conventions

The examples for directories in the book are for Linux. Unless otherwise noted, Microsoft Windows directory paths are the same except that they use a backslash (\) instead of the forward slash (/).

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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