Showing posts with label Audit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audit. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Global Database Name in Linux OAM and DB (OCI) environment for DB auditing

When adding Database Instances with OCI DB connection type, which is the only option for *nix based OAM installs, we have to specify the Global Database Name (GDN) for the database. Ever wondered what should the correct format for GDN be?

During a deployment, I faced this question, and after some trial and error and reading Oracle Instant Client documentation, I figured it out:

<DB Host>:<DB Port>/<ORACLE_SID>