This is a text description of asoag032.gif, which shows the structure of a typical Oracle Context, which is an entry in an LDAP-compliant directory called cn=OracleContext, under which all Oracle software relevant information is kept, including entries for Oracle Net directory naming and enterprise user security. This diagram shows a hierarchical structure that resembles an inverted tree. The Oracle Context is at the top. Branching off under the Oracle Context are containers for Products, Groups, and Database Servers (in this example, the Database Servers container is labeled "Sales.") Of these three containers that branch off of the Oracle Context container, Products and Groups are default container names. Under each of these containers additional sub-containers branch out as follows:

  1. The Products container holds two sub-containers. These are Common, which holds the Nickname Attribute, and OracleDBSecurity. The Common container and the OracleDBSecurity container are both default containers. The OracleDBSecurity container has two sub-containers that branch off under it. These are: An Enterprise Domain container, labeled "Services" in this example, and OracleDefaultDomain container. The OracleDefaultDomain container is a default container. Under the Enterprise Domain container that is labeled "Services," is one sub-container. This sub-container is the Services Domain container and it is labeled Domain Admins in this example. The second container under OracleDBSecurity, the OracleDefaultDomain container, has three sub-containers branching off under it. These are "Domain Admins," which is an example of a Default Domain container, "Schema Mapping," which is an example of a user-defined container, and the "Manager" sub-container, which is an example of an Enterprise Roles container.
  2. The Groups container is actually another subtree that branches off under the Oracle Context. It contains subtrees with root containers for the following groups: OracleDBCreators, OracleContextAdmins, OracleDBSecurityAdmins, OracleUserSecurityAdmins, and OraclePasswordAccessibleDomains.
  3. The Database Server container that is labeled "Sales" has three sub-containers that branch off under it. These sub-containers are OracleDBAdmins Group, Schema Mapping, and Networking. All three of these sub-containers are examples of user-defined containers in an Oracle Context. All of these containers are described in the surrounding text.