MDM Registry Edition supports Oracle’s Operating System Authentication. In this scenario, clients can omit the Userid, Password, or Service when connecting to the servers. As the MDM Registry Edition processes initiate all database connections, they connect to Oracle using the operating system account ID of the user who launched them. Therefore, a user that has been granted access to Oracle must launch the servers.

For example, suppose the MDM Registry Edition Administrator’s userid is SSA. Oracle is configured with the following parameters:

OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX = OPS$
REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT = TRUE (only if a Service is specified)
An

An Oracle Userid

OPS$SSA

is created with the appropriate privileges required by MDM Registry Edition. When a client specifies a Rulebase name of

odb:0:/@server734

and the host/port number of Rulebase Server, the server connects to Oracle using the Administrator’s userid and password. All database objects created by the server are in the

OPS$SSA

schema.