Oracle Net Manager is a tool to help you to configure and manage the Oracle networking environment. The following Oracle Net features and components are available to configure and manage with Oracle Net Manager:
You can create or modify network descriptions for database services
in a tnsnames.ora
file,
directory server, or an Oracle
Names server. Network descriptions, called connect
descriptors, are mapped to connect
identifiers that clients use in their connect
strings during a database connection.
You can create or modify a listener, a process on the server that receives and responds to client connection requests for a database service.
You can create or modify a profile, a collection of parameters that determine how the client connects to the Oracle network. You can client parameters for naming methods, logging, tracing, external naming parameters, and the Oracle Advanced Security.
You can create, modify configuration settings for, or control an Oracle Names server.