Oracle Internet Directory

From Oracle FAQ

Oracle Internet Directory (OID) is a standard LDAP directory server. OID is part of the Oracle Application Server.

Contents 1 Start and stop the OID server 2 OID Utilities 2.1 LDAP bind 2.2 Add OID entries 2.3 Lookup OID entries 2.4 Modify an OID entry 2.5 Delete an OID entry 3 Also see

[edit] Start and stop the OID server

To start OID:

${ORACLE_HOME}/opmn/bin/opmnctl start

To stop:

${ORACLE_HOME}/opmn/bin/opmnctl stop

[edit] OID Utilities

Some related utilities to manage OID entries:

[edit] LDAP bind

Test if you can bind (connect) to the OID server:

$ ldapbind -p 389 -h my-host-name -D "cn=orcladmin"
bind successful

[edit] Add OID entries

Add an entry/ entries to the OID server:

$ ldapadd -h my-host-name -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" -w mypassword -f onames.ldif

[edit] Lookup OID entries

Lookup an SQL*Net Service Name (in the example below, extract orclnetdescstring for TESTENTRY) in the OID directory:

ldapsearch -h my-host-name -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" cn=TESTENTRY orclnetdescstring

[edit] Modify an OID entry

ldapmodify ...

[edit] Delete an OID entry

ldapdelete -h my-host-name -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" -w mypassword "cn=TESTENTRY,cn=OracleContext,dc=mycompany,dc=com"

[edit] Also see

• Ldap.ora, file used to configure directory naming for SQL*Net