1.0 Oracle 10g/11g Failover Instance Oracle 10g/11g Failover Instance Instance name (SID) of oracle instance Oracle SID Oracle Listener Instance Name. If you have multiple instances of Oracle running, it may be necessary to have multiple listeners on the same machine with different names. Oracle Listener Instance Name Oracle user name. This is the user name of the Oracle user which the Oracle AS instance runs as. Oracle User Name This is the Oracle (application, not user) home directory. This is configured when you install Oracle. Oracle Home Directory This is the Oracle installation type: base - Database Instance and Listener only base-11g - Oracle11g Database Instance and Listener Only base-em (or 10g) - Database, Listener, Enterprise Manager, and iSQL*Plus base-em-11g - Database, Listener, Enterprise Manager dbconsole ias (or 10g-ias) - Internet Application Server (Infrastructure) Oracle Installation Type Virtual Hostname matching the installation hostname of Oracle 10g. Note that during the start/stop of an oracledb resource, your hostname will temporarily be changed to this hostname. As such, it is recommended that oracledb resources be instanced as part of an exclusive service only. Virtual Hostname Full path to the directory that contains the Oracle listener tnsnames.ora configuration file. The shell variable TNS_ADMIN is set to the value provided. Full path to the directory containing tnsnames.ora