Listener Overview

Services coordinate their sessions with the help of a listener, a process on the server that receives connection requests on behalf of a client application. Listeners are configured to "listen on" protocol addresses for a database service or non-database service.

Protocol addresses are configured in the listener configuration file, listener.ora, for a database service or a non-database service.

Once the listener is configured, the listener can be managed with Listener Control utility

 

See Also: Chapter 12, Configuring and Administering the Listener, in the Oracle9i Net Services Administrator's Guide for more information about configuring the listener.