Oracle Transparent Application Failover (TAF) and Fast Connection Failover (FCF) are not supported. Instead, the BRIDGE uses an database independent replay mechanism for its Perstistent State persistency. This mechanism works only if TAF and FCF are switched off. |
The BRIDGE supports Oracle since version 7.
Install the Oracle client tools and define the tnsnames.ora to open a successful connection to the database.
Linux:
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Select the Oracle adapter, enter the following parameters and click Apply.
Key | Value | Example |
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ORACLE_HOME | Path to the Oracle client. | D:\Oracle\ora11g |
NLS_LANG | Oracle language settings (Unix only) | AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 |
TNS_ADMIN | Path to the Oracle configuration sqlnet.ora (optional) | D:\Oracle\ora11g |
If the path is already specified in the environment variables of your operating system, you do not have to set this parameter. |
Connection String | Description | |
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Alias | DBString - the database name as it is specified in TNSNAMES.ORA file or looked up via Oracle LDAP. | |
Short Form | <server name>:<port>/<database or service name> | |
Long Form | The right hand side of tnsname.ora entries:
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It is also possible to configure the Oracle client as to use LDAP to access the connection information.