Chapter 5. Networking
The Oracle database is more than just a server. Clients have to be able to connect to an Oracle instance, and Oracle instances have to be able to communicate with other instances, as well as with application servers, foreign databases, and external procedures.
This chapter provides a quick introduction to Oracle networking and then summarizes the syntax of the configuration files you must define in order to use a network as part of your Oracle environment. These files include TNSNAMES.ORA, SQLNET.ORA, LISTENER.ORA, LDAP.ORA, NAMES.ORA, and CMAN.ORA.
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