Category Archives: Oracle Agent

Problem uninstalling Agent 11g

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Gary

I had to uninstall oracle Agent 11g from clients AIX systems, because we de-comissioned OEM. This caused the entire application to fail. Here’s what to look out for.

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Using EMCLI to get agent properties.

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Gary

EMCLI allows us to obtain agent properties, and indeed to set them from the command line. Such a tool would be useful in maintaining possibly multiple OEM’s depending on criteria, and updating each agent remotely.

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Using EMCLI to unblock and resync agents.

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Gary

A common problem I find is resyncing agents and getting them unblocked. EMCLI allows this.

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10.2.0.4 Agent install addHome issue.

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Gary

Adding and removing an installed oracle home. During an installation of EM Agent 10.2.0.4 on a six node RAC, one node had a problem from a previous installation. Here’s how to clear it.

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10.2.0.4 Agent install on a 6 node cluster.

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Gary

Installing EM Agent on RAC. Had to install EM Agent on 6 nodes in a cluster, had some problems which we resolved. Here’s the walk through.

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Emctl Returning status code 1

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Gary

emctl agent would not start, returning the error : 2010-08-17 18:51:50,921 Thread-1696 ERROR main: nmectla_agentctl: Error connecting to http://hostname:3872/emd/main/. Returning status code 1 Even from the services panel, the same error was returned and the agent refused to start up. … Continue reading →

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Obscure Agent Startup Problem.

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Gary

I often have problems identifying the cause of an agent failing to start. Here’s an example of why the agent fails to start.

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Clear an Agent not uploading.

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Gary

EM Agent not uploading. We had a agent which stopped uploading. Why ? And How to clear it ?

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Additional agent installation fails, java.io.FileNotFoundException

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Gary

Additional agent installation fails, java.io.FileNotFoundException I installed an additional agent on a windows 2003 server, and it gave the following error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:DOCUME~1GCOLBR~1LOCALS~1Temp1OraInstall2010-04-26_10-02-55AMouiinstImagesimages.properties

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Restarting the agent.

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Gary

The script below can be set to run on a defined time period, to check that the agent is up and running. If it is not, it will attempt to restart it.

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