RE: Migrating from ONAMES to OID

Ponnu,

Looks like our resident OiD expert - Rich Jesse - didn't pick this up :) My thoughts are:

• My understanding is that although Oracle threatened to yank Onames, they have still allowed it to reside in 9.2.0.x. I haven't heard anything about this in 10g...
• OiD is a lot more than just a replacement for Onames - it is the basis for Single-signon and a starting point for Content management. As such, my reading is that it is still not kosher enough... (although I heard a BDE person say that the OiD in iAS 9.0.4 was much improved)
• OiD is supposed to be LDAP (v3?) compliant - that would mean that M$ products should work seamlessly against a Corporate LDAP server served out of Oracle OiD. Try getting M$ to bless this ;-) OTOH, OiD is supposed to be able to replicate well from M$ ADS. I haven't had the opportunity to try that out yet...

Although I wouldn't advice against progress (Onames -> OiD), my question is 'Why fix something that is currently not broken'? Until the whole LDAP space settles down, I would advice waiting. (You still have V7 and that will crimp your style)

John Kanagaraj
DB Soft Inc
Phone: 408-970-7002 (W)

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ponnusamy Rangasamy [mailto:ponnu_at_kyocera-wireless.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 5:25 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: Migrating from ONAMES to OID
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>Folks,
>
>We are in the process of evaluating - migration from Oracle
>Names to 9i OID
>and will be glad to know
>your experiences.. I understand that clients should be 8i. we
>have Oracle
>Ver. 7 thru 9i.
>Listed below is an overview of the procedures..
>
>a) Installing 9i OID on the database server
>b) Directory Services on LDAP
>c) Installing ldap clients for all existing oracle clients.
>d) Schema for OID in a database.
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>
>Regards,
>..Ponnu
>
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