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How To Check if Oracle Advanced Security Option is Installed ? [ID 549989.1] Modified 10-SEP-2010 In this Document Goal Solution References Platforms: 1-914CU;
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Type HOWTO

Status MODERATED

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" includes 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 Naming Error!!! Oracle Names Server Naming is not completely installed! Installed Oracle Advanced Security options are: RC4 RC4 RC4 RC4 40-bit encryption 56-bit encryption 128-bit encryption 256-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 AES 192-bit encryption AES 256-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 Names is no 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 installing it . 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 after 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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