Client connections to a server can routed through an Oracle Connection Manager if you want to:

• Allow large numbers of users to access a single service through a single protocol.

• Provide clients with different protocol support than the server supports.

• Provide a proxy for denying or allowing access to a server.

Connection Concentration: Allows you to multiplex multiple logical client sessions through a single transport connection to an Oracle database destination.

Net8 Access Control (also known as firewall support): Provides a proxy for denying or allowing access to a database server.

Multi-Protocol Support: Allows client and database servers operating on different protocol stacks to communicate with each other.

Oracle Connection Manager requires you to create a net service name with two protocol address, the first for the Oracle Connection Manager and the second for the listener address. These can be achieved with the Net8 Assistant. Other aspects of Oracle Connection Manager must be configured in the INIT.ORA and CMAN.ORA, which the Net8 Assistant does not support.

See Also: Net8 Administrator’s Guide for complete configuration instructions for Oracle Connection’s Manager’s features.