Oracle Network Manager 3.1.0.5.1

Release Notes

March 1997

These release notes include updated information and restrictions concerning

Network Manager v3.1.0.5.1 that are not covered in formal documentation.

Installation Issues

Documentation from version 3.1 of Network Manager is included with the installation of

Network Manager 3.1.0.5.1. Changes to the product are covered in these release notes.

SQL*Net and RDBMS Compatibility

Network Manager 3.1.0.5.1 is compatible with SQL*Net 2.3.3.0.1 and 7.3.3.0.1 of

Oracle 7 RDBMS.

New Features And Changes For Network Manager 3.1.0.5.1

>64 Conifgurable Nodes Per Community

To satisfy the needs of customers to create large network definitions,

the 64 nodes per community barrier has been lifted. The system resources

for each installation determines the number of configurable nodes.

>64 Configurable Databases Per Node

In concert with the above feature, Network Manager now allows more than 64

databases (services) to be configured on a single node. For each listener that is

configured only 64 databases can be associated with it.

New Server Type: Windows NT

Windows NT has been added to the list of server types. The NT server type

can be selected when the user is configuring a node.

Hyphenated Service Names

By default, Network Manager does not allow hyphens or dashes (-) in node

names and database names. To ignore dashes in names do the following before

configuring a network.

1) Go to Special in the main menu select the Preferences menu item.

2) Towards the bottom of the dialog, there is a checkbox labelled 'Allow for

hyphens...'. Check this box and begin the configuration process.

Oracle Intelligent Agent

There is an additional field in the Oracle Intelligent Agent's 'General' property

page. The '7.3.3 or later' checkbox is checked for those users conifguring for Oracle

Enterprise Manager and using a later agent. See the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrators

Guide for more information.

De-Support Of Server Manager

Support for Server Manager has been removed from Network Manager. The

login prompt and the 'Start Sever Manager' menu item have been disabled in this release.

Oracle Names Parameters In names.ora

Due to the increasing size of network definitions, Oracle Names users may see

some parameters for Oracle Names written in names.ora. The names.domains parameter

maybe written out to the names.ora during an Oracle Names/Database export.

Restrictions and Limitations

A customer has experienced a GPF when opening a relatively large network

definition stored in the database. The problem seems to be originate in the ROS layer

of Network Manager. Presently, no viable solution has been found. It is strongly

reccommended that any network definition be saved to the file system.

Network Manager is has not been translated into other languages other than

U.S. English.