How to configure multiple Oracle listeners
How to configure multiple Oracle listeners It happened to me few times during the stress tests that Oracle listener became a bottleneck and not be able to handle the required workload. It was resolved by creating multiple listeners which appeared to be a quick solution. Here is a short step-by-step procedure to configure multiple Oracle listeners on Solaris for standalone Oracle 9i and 10g environment. 1) First of all, add additional NIC and cables. They can be on separate subnetwork or the same. In the later, make sure to set static route if needed. 2) Assume that we are going to configure two listeners, LISTENER and LISTENER2 Modify listener.ora and tnsnames.ora as following: Here is a sample of listener.ora LISTENER = (DESCRIPTION_LIST = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.100.3)(PORT = 1521)) ) ...