List Oracle LDAP connection endpoints for use in SQuirreL

Question

Toad/Oracle has a mechanism where it can use LDAP to lookup a list of database endpoints. It uses a file called ldap.ora which looks like:

DIRECTORY_SERVERS= (server1.foo.bar.baz:1628:1629, server2.foo.bar.baz:1628:1629)
DEFAULT_ADMIN_CONTEXT = "dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=baz"
DIRECTORY_SERVER_TYPE = OID

I'd like to somehow invoke the LDAP lookup and export the list of database endpoints (including server, port, etc.) so that I can connect via JDBC/SQuirreL.

1. Is there a way that I can generate the list of database endpoints given the LDAP servers?
2. Or better yet is there some oracle / SQuirreL integration that does the LDAP lookup?

* Update *

I originally thought I needed the server/port for each database server to formulate a JDBC url. I have now found that I can connect to a database through the ldap directory server using a connection url like:

jdbc:oracle:thin:@ldap://server1.foo.bar.baz:1628/XXXX,cn=OracleContext,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=baz

Where XXXX is the SID of a database. So, it now seems that all I need is a list of SID's. I'm hoping that I can do this in sqlplus.

Answer 1

Well, you can query LDAP for the data. (Do not know how SQuirreL can do this unless you modify the code).

You need to query your LDAP for (objectclass=orclDBServer) and the data you are looking for is in the attribute orclnetdescstring and will look some thing like:

orclnetdescstring: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=ordb0001.yourdomain.com)(PORT=1523))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=db.iss.com)))

-jim