Process control of Oracle Internet Directory components

Since OID is a part of the Oracle AS infrastructure, OPMN is responsible for monitoring OID as an Oracle AS component.

The processes associated with OID are

• OIDMON ($ORACLE_HOME/bin/oidmon)  is a daemon process responsible for the process control of all OID server instances
  
• OIDCTL($ORACLE_HOME/bin/oidctl) is a commandline tool that let you configure additional OID server instances.
  

OID Integration with OPMN:

OPMN knows only about OIDMON & is unaware of the OID server instances.

OIDMON & ODS_PROCESS Table:

OIDMON is responsible for starting, stopping & restarting & monitoring all OID server instances such as Directory server instances, Replication server instances.

OIDMON reads the contents of the ODS_PROCESS table in the ODS database user schema periodically. The periodicity is controlled by the value of "sleep" commandline argument at oidmon startup. The default value is 10 seconds.