How to remove a dispatcher with a specific index (conf_indx)

Question

Hi,
A few details:
We are on 11.2.0.3 linux 64bit.
We use both dedicated and shared connection.
We have many environments (an environment consists of many schemas) in a single DB.
For each environment we create at least one service (we know # of services is limited to ~150 in 11.2) - in example for environment with suffix LAB1 we create a service called DB_LAB1
in example:
exec dbms_service.create_service('DB_LAB1','DB_LAB1');
exec dbms_service.start_service('DB_LAB1');
For clients to be able to connect to the service_name using shared mode - we also create a dispatcher per environment - serving that specific service -
in example:
alter system set dispatchers='(index=30)(protocol=tcp)(service=DB_LAB1)(dispatchers=1)'
I have a few environments which I would like to remove - including their services and dispatchers.
removing the services is easy using dbms_service - however I did not find a way to remove/delete a dispatcher with a specific index.
Say I have conf_indx 1..50 used and I would like to remove conf_indx=30 (the one which I created above) - how can I do that?
Stopping the dispatcher process (Dxxx) does not remove the row from v$dispatcher_config - it only shows that the number of dispatchers for that row is 0.
Bottom line - how to remove a specific dispatcher with a specific dispatcher-index - without affecting all the other dispatchers which I would like to preserve?
Thanks.
Mor

Answer 1

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