Enabling ODP.NET Clients to Receive FAN Load Balancing Advisory Events

When connecting to Oracle Database 12c and later, ODP.NET uses Oracle Notification Service, rather than Advanced Queuing.

Use the following procedure to enable ODP.NET clients or applications to receive FAN load balancing advisory events:

1. Enable Oracle Notification Service notifications by using SRVCTL, and set the run-time load balancing goal, as shown in the following example:

   $ srvctl modify service -db crm -service odpapp.example.com
       -notification TRUE -clbgoal LONG -rlbgoal SERVICE_TIME
   

2. Ensure Oracle Notification Service (ONS) is configured for FAN events including run-time load balancing advice.

3. To take advantage of load balancing events with ODP.NET connection pools, set the load balancing attribute in the ConnectionString to TRUE (the default is FALSE). You can do this at connect time. This only works if you are using connection pools, or when the pooling attribute is set to TRUE which is the default.

   The following example demonstrates how to configure the ConnectionString to enable load balancing, where user_name is the name of the user and password is the password:

   con.ConnectionString =
     "User Id=user_name;Password=password;Data Source=odpapp;" +
     "Min Pool Size=10;Connection Lifetime=120;Connection Timeout=60;" +
     "Load Balancing=true;Incr Pool Size=5;Decr Pool Size=2";