Comments on: Storing Oracle database connection strings in OpenLDAP instead of OID

By: fs111 (@fs111)

fs111 (@fs111) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:51:49 +0000

Thanks a ton for this guide! This solved a problem I was having, where I was moving a legacy app to the amazon cloud and I needed to store the oracle connections somewhere without going crazy.

You should add a flattr button to your blog, I would totally click it. :-) Keep up the good work!

By: Ronny Egner

Ronny Egner — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:52:41 +0000

Hi Ronald,

i am afraid thats not possible. There is a product from Oracle available (“Global Names” if i remember correctly) but there is nothing you can easiliy implement on OpenLDAP.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:07:07 +0000

Hi Ronny,
thanks for the article. I now have a valid installation on my mac. The default installation in macos 10.6.6 did not function properly so I installed a fresh BerkelyDB 4.8.30, combined with openldap 2.4.24, after which all my problems were gone.
:-D
Would it also be possible to make authentications possible using openldap? What would be needed to get that up and running? It would be very nice to have enterprise users served by openldap …

best regards,
Ronald.

By: Ronny Egner

Ronny Egner — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:34:13 +0000

> I have a problem with “orclNetDescName”.

I dont user Oracle NetMgr to manage my LDAP entries. I wrote a small .NET tool to do so. If you want to use NetMgr you have to debug by checking what commands are executed against the LDAP server to create a testcase.

By: Dominik Wieczorek

Dominik Wieczorek — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:26:48 +0000

I have a problem with “orclNetDescName”. The Oracle netmgr will insert a string like:
000:DESCRITION_0.
Result:
tag=105 err=21 text=orclNetDescName: value #0 invalid per syntax
The ldif-file example:
orclNetDescName: 000:cn=DESCRITION_0

Any Idea to fix this problem?

Thanks
Dominik

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:23:37 +0000

Any Idea to fix this problem?

Thanks
Dominik

By: Uwe Küchler

Uwe Küchler — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:57:23 +0000

@Kumar Raju
Kumar (and Mauro, perhaps): If you used the examples from “oracle-cookies”, beware that the authentication policy in the slapd.conf may not work.
In my test setup (OpenLDAP 2.2.29 WinXP, Oracle Client 10.2), sqlnet could not authenticate with the server. Leaving the access control settings commented, tnsping worked fine for me.
So far for my €0.02,
Uwe

By: Ronny Egner

Ronny Egner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:28:00 +0000

It does not look like the site i found it..but it is close….

By: Kumar Raju

Kumar Raju — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:44:15 +0000

I found an article somewhere on the net showing how to migrate the needed schema objects from OID to openLDAP. I would have posted the link if i were able to find it again. But maybe you can help me out :-)

Is this the link?
http://oracle-cookies.blogspot.com/2007/01/get-tnsnamesora-from-openldap.html

By: Ronny Egner

Ronny Egner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:03:13 +0000

I see. I am afraid but thats not possible because it is not configured like this.

For your name resolution problem please send me your files for vertification.