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Oracle® Database Net Services Administrator's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2)

Part Number E10836-07
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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:

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.

Documentation Accessibility

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Related Documentation

For additional information, see the following Oracle resources:

Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle Database. Refer to Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

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For additional information about OSI, see:

http://www.ietf.org

Oracle error message documentation is only available in HTML. If you only have access to the Oracle Documentation CD, then you can browse the error messages by range. After you find the specific range, use your browser's "find in page" feature to locate the specific message. When connected to the Internet, you can search for a specific error message using the error message search feature of the Oracle online documentation.

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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