# Welcome page, Stand-Alone Mode

Welcome to Net8 Configuration Assistant. The Net8 Configuration allows you to configure basic network components after installation.

### Listener configuration

Select this option to create modify, delete or rename, a listener. The listener is a process on the server that receives and responds to client connection requests for a database. Clients using connect descriptors configured with the same protocol addresses can send a connection request to the listener.

| Note: This option is not available on clients.

| See Also:

Create a Listener

Reconfigure Listener Configuration

Delete a Listener

Rename a Listener

### Naming Methods configuration

Select this option to configure naming methods. When an end user connects to a database service, a connect string that identifies the service through a simple name, called a connect identifier, is used. A connect identifier can be the actual name of the service or a net service name. The connect identifier is resolved to a connect descriptor, which contains the network location and identification of the service, by a naming method. You can configure this computer to resolve connect identifiers using any of the following methods:

- Local naming (Local)

- Directory naming (Directory)
- Oracle Names (Oracle Names)
- Host naming (Host Name)
- Novell Directory Services (NDS)
- Network Information Service (Sun NIS)
- Cell Directory Service (DCE CDS)

Additionally, if the local naming method is selected on the client, you are prompted to configure connect descriptors in a client-side tnsnames.ora file.

| See Also:

Specify Naming Methods

### Local Net Service Name configuration

Select this option to create, modify, delete, rename, or test connectivity of a connect descriptor stored in a local tnsnames.ora file.

| See Also:

Create a Net Service Name in a tnsnames.ora File

Modify the Configuration for a Net Service Name

Delete a Net Service Name

Rename a Net Service Name

Test Net Service Name Connectivity

### Directory Service Access configuration

Select this option to configure access to a LDAP-compliant directory server, if you plan to use:

- Directory naming to centrally administer connect identifiers

- Enterprise user security for use with Oracle Advanced Security

| Note: Net8 Configuration Assistant provides basic configuration. For more advanced configuration operations, or to configure other portions of Net8 that this tool does not cover, use Net8 Assistant.

| See Also:

Configure the Client for Directory Access

Configure the Server for Directory Access

Create or Update the Schema