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How To Check if Oracle Advanced Security Option is Installed ? [ID 549989.1]

Modified10-SEP-2010 Type HOWTO Status MODERATED

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Goal

Solution

References

Platforms: 1-914CU;

This document is being delivered to you via Oracle Support's Rapid Visibility (RaV) process and therefore has not been subject to an independent technical review.

Applies to:

Advanced Networking Option - Version: 9.2 to 11.1 - Release: 9.2 to

Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

How to check if Oracle Advanced Security Option (ASO) is installed ?

Solution

***Checked for relevance on 10-Sep-2010***

From release 8i onwards, ASO ships with Enterprise Edition release of Oracle.

Release 8.0 and before is a seperate CD for ASO.

Oracle Universal Installation Type "Enterprise Edition" i ncludes ASO option.

ASO must be installed on both the client and server to be able to use the feature.

ASO can only be used with Enterprise Edition software and requires a license.

Unix and Windows platforms can be checked, by selecting installed products in the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI).

Select the Oracle home and from Contents tab, drill down to Enterprise Edition Options.

On Unix you can also run the adapters command

$ adapters

Installed Oracle Net transport protocols are:

IPC

BEQ

TCP/IP

SSL

RAW

SDP/IB

Installed Oracle Net naming methods are:

Local Naming (tnsnames.ora)

Oracle Directory Naming

Oracle Host NamingError!!! Oracle Names Server Naming is not completely installed!

Installed Oracle Advanced Security options are:

RC4 40-bit encryption




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DES40 40-bit encryption

DES 56-bit encryption

3DES 112-bit encryption

3DES 168-bit encryption

AES 128-bit encryption



MD5 crypto-checksumming

SHA-1 crypto-checksumming

Kerberos v5 authentication

RADIUS authentication

Please note the line Error!!! Oracle Names Server Naming is not completely installed! is expected behavior for the adapters command from version 10g onwards. This is due to the fact Oracle

shipped.

If after installation, Net Manager does not show Advance Security options, see Note 156345.1 Oracle Net Configuration Tools Do Not Show 'Advanced Security'

Oracle product development has agreed that in oracle database server enterprise edition Oracle Advanced Security Option will be installed by default . So there is no point of un-installing or installi

The reason behind this is that Oracle Advanced Security Options are integrated at network adapter level and it is not appropriate to tweak network adapters a fter database installation .

Reference : Unpublished Bug 549989.1

References

NOTE:156345.1 - Oracle Net Configuration Tools Do Not Show Advanced Security Pulldown

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Products

Oracle Database Products > Oracle Database > Net Services > Advanced Networking Option

Keywords

ORACLE UNIVERSAL INSTALLER; ENCRYPTION; MD5; INSTALLER; KERBEROS; RADIUS; AUTHENTICATION; SHA-1

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