Problemm with access agent on grid control

Question

Hi guys..
I successfully installed oracle 10g release 2 GC on sun solaris (sparc) 10. To access the console, if I do use http://192.168.0.1:4889/em, it doesnt work. Then when I use the machine name http://zone1.test.com:4889/em it did work. Since there isnt any DNS to resolve hostname from ip, had to add an entry in the etc/hosts before it works.
Now here comes the pb.
We have 8i db (on sparc solaris 8), 9i dbs (on sparc solaris 8, 9, 10; on windows Xp, and on windows 2003 server) and 10g dbs (on sparc solaris 8, 9, 10; on windows Xp, and on windows 2003 server). I would like to use the GC installed on the solaris above as my centralized server for monitoring all our dbs.
What I have to do is to install oracel GC agent on each machine running oracle. (but mai first question is which version to install? release 1 or release 2)??
So for a begining, I installed oracle 10g release 2 agent on a windows machine runing oracle 10g database. It asked me for the server name, port and password (as the server is running in secure mode). The installation went ok but when I did access the grid control on the server side, I cant see the host or db on the target.
Can any one let me know what happen or how ai could fix this?
does ai need to add the ip and name of the windows machine in the /etc/hosts of the GC server so that it can resolve it?
Any input is welcome.
Junior DBA in distress.

Answer 1

thanks for the reply mnazim.
where is the emagent.trc and emoms.trc found? it is
on the server or client (agent) side?
here is another question!
to start and stop all services on GC I saw from one
website that we do the following.
# Start everything
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/oms/bin/emctl start agent
You do not need to start agent from OMS_HOME
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/oms/opmn/bin/opmnctl startall
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/agent/bin/emctl start agent
The above two are OK
>
# Stop everything
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/agent/bin/emctl stop agent
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/oms/opmn/bin/opmnctl stopall
The above two are OK
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/oms/bin/emctl stop agent
You do not need to stop agent from OMS_HOME
now is this the same with
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/agent/bin/emctl start
oms (to start everything) and
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/agent/bin/emctl stop
oms (to end everything) ????
No it is not the same.