Configuring the Oracle Net client

You must configure the Oracle Net client by setting up the TNS (Transport Network Substrate) service names for your Tivoli® Netcool® Performance Manager database instance.

About this task

Next, you configure the Oracle Net client by setting up the TNS (Transport Network Substrate) service names for your Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager database instance. You must perform this step for each instance of the Oracle client software that you installed on the system.

• You must configure sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora files for both Oracle server and Oracle client installations. However, the tnsnames.ora file for client installations must not have the EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA section.
• If you are installing DataView and one or more other Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager components on the same system, you must make sure that the tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files for each set of client software are identical. The easiest way to do this is to create these files when you are configuring the first client instance for Net and then to copy it to the corresponding directory when you configure the second instance.