Monthly Archives: March 2010

Grid Control Problem and Troubleshooting.

I had a problem with the Grid Control login page, which showed an error: 503 Service Unavailable Service is not initialized correctly. Verify that the repository connection information provided is correct. So, I started to trouble shoot the problem.

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Running Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) version 419

Running the RDA, version 419.

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Patching opatch, Patch 6880880

Had cause to patch opatch the other day. Very simple….

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Cannot stop Postgres database on windows.

Postgres has to be installed with the administrator user rather than a normal user. Because of this, you will get access denied where you as a user try to execute it.

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Agent silent install errors for proxy.

Had to perform a silent agent installation, but found it difficult to pass the proxy information to the installer. Here’s how.

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Agent install error, no FROM_LOCATION in file

Ran the agent installer silently and came up with the error:SEVERE:Values for the following variables could not be obtained from the command line or response file(s): FROM_LOCATION(SourceLocation)But that was in the file. Here’s the cause.

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emCCR upload data.

A database shows that the last collection was some time ago on Metalink. Is there a way to force an update ?

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emCCR, Last Collection Time is blank.

Trying to get CCR to collect data for metalink, but the Last Collect Time was blank. How to collect manually….

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Reconfigure Oracle Configuration Manager.

Had a target on Metalink which had not updated in ages. Decided to reset the CCR. Here’s how.

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Refresh mviews group

Had to schedule some MV’s to run at 4 am each morning. All mviews in the schema had to be done. Here’s a quick way to do so….

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