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Restrictions on Host Names for Siebel Gateway and Siebel Server

This topic is part of Planning Your Siebel Deployment.

See also Restrictions on Names for Siebel Enterprise and Siebel Server, which is about names for Siebel entities that you specify during configuration.

This topic describes restrictions for host names for server computers on which you will install Siebel Gateway or Siebel Server.

The Siebel Gateway name is defined automatically based on the host name of the server computer. However, problems might arise during configuration of Siebel modules unless the following requirements are observed:

• Host names for Siebel Gateway or Siebel Server must not include dashes (hyphens). It is recommended that you use an underscore if a separator character is required. For example, host_sba17 is acceptable, but host-sba17 is not.

  NOTE:  A dash might not cause problems in every scenario, but problems have been observed in many specific scenarios, as noted in 477993.1 (Article ID) on My Oracle Support. This document was previously published as Siebel Alert 1067. (Workarounds described in the alert, involving substitute .scm files, do not apply to the current software version.) In any case, similar restrictions for naming a Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server are noted in Restrictions on Names for Siebel Enterprise and Siebel Server.

• The host name for Siebel Gateway must be no longer than 15 characters.

  The Siebel Management Console task for configuring the Siebel Gateway displays an error if the host name you enter is longer than 15 characters.

  (Siebel Management Console tasks for configuring the Siebel Enterprise and the Siebel Server also validate that the name of the Siebel Gateway, which would have been previously configured, is no longer than 15 characters.)

• In general, it is recommended not to define the host name for the Siebel Gateway computer to include domain information, as might be common in some UNIX environments. The entire host name is subject to the 15-character limit mentioned previously.