LDAP(iPlanet & OID) Net Service

Question

Hi There,
Is it possible to use iPlanet's LDAP for net service names lookup instaed of Oracle Names? Is there a way to extract the schema in OID and import into iPlanet ldap. If this could be done then NET8 should be able to connect to the directory server. Why I say this is: according to Oracle documentation, Net8 supports directory naming: "Service addresses and net service names can be stored in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol -compliant directory server."
Has anyone done this?.
With the release of Orcale 9i Oracle is due to ship a product called Oracle Names LDAP
Proxy. Is there any information on this product.
All comments and suggestions are very welcome and appreciated
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John Tomlinson
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posted February 25, 2001 03:06 PM
Hello Pat:
As of release 8.1.7 you can use iPlanet as your name server. In the Net8 Admin guide
for 8.1.7, specifically chapter 6, there are detailed steps on how to accomplish this.
By the way, customers seaking to use OID as a replacement to their Oracle Names
server may do so for free. There is no extra lisencing required to use OID as your Oracle
Names replacement. You can find a copy of the Net8 Admin guide for 8.1.7 on the "Online Generic Documentation" CD for 8.1.7
Thanks,
Jay
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Pat Lehane
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posted March 06, 2001 08:54 AM
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the reply.
I installed NET 8.1.7 and am trying to connect to iPlanet LDAP through NET8
Configuration Assitant to create an Oracle schema in the in the iPlanet Directory Server
but I get an error as follows: configexception: Could not create Oracle schema:oracle.net.config.ConfigException
You must update the schema from a computer which directly supports your type of
directory There are still only three options in the directory server type in NET8 config assitant. Is there another way of creating the schema in iPlanet or is there some steps to be done in iPlanet first.
Regards
Pat

Answer 1

While any v3 LDAP server should work, and while some 816 users got Oracle and iPlanet to talk, there are compatability bugs between Oracle 817 and iPlanet. According to Oracle on 02/21/01 "Per bug 1377659 It's been decided that we will only certify against OID. iPlanet is no longer a tested configuration."
If they aren't testing it they probably aren't doing much else on it either.