Installing multiple Deployment Agents ... or vNext?

As I'm expanding my use of RM, I'm running into a need to reuse target machines for both my 'RM-development/release' testing, and 'RM-real-internal-code-releases'. My issue is that the deployment agent on the targeted server is configured to receive
from only one RM server.
I'm considering installing a second Deployment instance and configuring it to the separate RM server. My concerns are:
- can two deployment agents co-exist on the same server?
- Is this just a bad idea in general, since I will have to install the second deployment agent on 4-6+ servers, to provide a full testing suite.
I understand the RM strategy is to go agentless, and that vNext is agentless. Should I switch to vNext? Is it stable enough?
thx
Curt Zarger [email protected]

John and Graham,
thx for your responses.
John: No 'developer tools' can be installed on the target machines under STIGS government security controls (http://iase.disa.mil/stigs).
Graham: The following is my simplified tactical plan. My strategic plan is to jump to 2015 and go full continuous delivery.
These are the step I went thru. Hopefully they will be of use to someone else.
To overcome the STIGS restrictions on installation of developer tools, I tried to replace the files reported missing the the RM log
(TFSBuild.exe, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, etc) that support running a TFSBuild via command line. No good.
Since I had to execute on a machine with VS installed, I changed my RM stage environments' target machines to be my TeamBuild build agent machines. This executes my build, including my MSBuild/Powershell scripts. Since my scripts already handle
the remoting of files and configurations to the intended target machine, it works.
The drawbacks are 1. no triggering of RM from a TeamBuild, due to the mismatched templates being used. 2. This configuration of the staging environments, ie. none configured to the actual target machines, leaves me no migration path for moving code
over to RM to be executed.
I've decided to live with #1 and address #2. The resolution is to split each stage into two stages. Using "Dev" as the first stage, I set up pre-Dev and Dev stages. The pre-Dev stage runs the TFSBuild command on the TeamBuild
agent. The Dev stage is then available to run any additional code added or migrated. This is a bit clunky and complicates the approval flow a bit, but...
Curt
Curt Zarger [email protected]

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I am trying to make an application (or package) that will install multiple programs through the one application. Right now the only way I can see to do this, is to force an application to install another one as a requirement. The easiest example
I can give is iTunes. We customize the iTunes install to lock down features and not install every application that isn't needed in our environment. So technically iTunes actually installs 5 different programs. I need to be able to select
iTunes during an OSD deployment using the MDT UDI Wizard, and it will install iTunes and anything needed for it to work correctly.
I am just using iTunes as an easy example to explain. We have other programs that work in a similar way, or require other applications to be install. My main reason for this request is we have standard engineering applications, but I don't want
them installed on all computers, I want just one option that will in turn install all the standard applications.
I am guessing what I will have to do, is make one install that requires the previous application and installs it, and do that for each application, but this doesn't seam like a good solution as it means I will have to have a separate application only for
this OSD problem.
Is there an easier/correct way of doing this, mainly for OSD?
Thank you,

Dependencies only forces the box to be checked, it doesn't install it in the correct order. We are having another problem in that area. We have an Office add-on that in SC requires a version of office to be installed. We can't set the dependency
for that add-on since we have multiple versions of office, but even if a version of office is selected, it doesn't try to install it before it tries to install the add-on. So the add-on install ends up failing since office isn't installed when it tries
to install, even though it installs afterwards.
This is why I am not considering using dependencies since I can't get it to install in the correct order. If there is a way to enforce the when something gets installed, then yes, this would work for me.

How to deploy agent from windows 32bit to 64bit

Hello,
I have installed oem grid on windows 2003 32bit. I have a few remote boxes that are 64 bit windows. How can I use oem grid on 32 bit to deploy agent on the remote 64 bit boxes? I can install agent on 64 bit boxes manually but I want to know how to deploy from 32 bit to 64 bit if possible? Thank you.

First, the bit version of the OEM OMS Host and the Target Agent Hosts is independent, i.e. you can have OMS on windows 32bit and have several 64bit target hosts, where you are running the 64bit agent.
Unless you have a lot of target hosts, I would recommend either manually installing the agents (mount a share with the installation files and run setup locally) or using the agentDownload.
Best regards,
Martin Decker
www.ora-solutions.net

Deploy agents for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid 11.1.0.1.0

Hi All,
I have successfully installed Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid 11.1.0.1.0 on Red Hat 5.5 64 bit. It is up and running.
I have started preparing for deployment of the agents. There are quite a lot targets which are Windows machines.
My question is what is the best approach for deploying agent on server running Microsoft Windows? Is it Installing Oracle Management Agent Using Agent Deployment Wizard or silent.
I started with Agent Deployment Wizard but for Windows it requires setting SSH and installing cygwin which is not very comfortable if I have to do this for all Windows targets. If it is the case , should cygwin and ssh daemon be running all the time or just for the phase of installing the agent?
Please advise which is the best approach in this case when most of the targets are running on Microsoft Windows.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks,
Maria
Edited by: 832920 on Feb 1, 2011 5:31 AM
Edited by: 832920 on Feb 1, 2011 5:45 AM

Hi,
I have used the method "agent install in silent mode" and believe that this is a rather simple way to install an agent. You just have to test it
on one host - and if it works there it will work any other hoste as well - you could use the same response file for all other hosts. The command
to install the agent remains the same...
But maybe someone else beliefs that another approach might be better...

Trouble installing In Home Agent

When i try to install In Home Agent, I get the message:
"Multiple VZ-An Home Agent cannot be installed. Please uninstall the old kit from Control Panel and install the new kit"
There is no other At Home Agent installed!. How do I proceed?
Mike S

I point to http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/Verizon-In-Home-Agent-runs-on-my-system-MAC-OSX-but-does-...
and quote from it
a)
I like the online version of the app at www.verizon.com/repair
you can do a lot of the functions of the app without all the bloatware
b)
As other have said it does something, it waste resources. Not sure on the MAC, but on PC's it has been none to drive at least one cpu to 100% (If you only have one its really bad). And the number of functions it does that you might ever want to do is minimal.
Personally I recommend that you uninstall it, and make sure you get all pieces of it.
I point to
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/Installing-InHome-Agent/td-p/544663
and I quote from it
Count yourselves lucky, That program is more trouble than help. It took me about 90 seconds to realize this and to remove it from my system. If you have any real questions about anything more complex than hitting the enter key, you are not going to find any answers from the In Home Agent. Its all basic stuff and will not help with any real issues.
You will probably find better, more easy to understand and more usable answers on Google than you can in any verizon software i have seen to date.
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