Metric Collection Errors

Question

I am using a 10.2 OEM agent to monitor various database versions (8i,9i,10g). I understand that using a 10.2 agent on an 8i database is not supported.... from what I have seen, you must use a 10.1 OEM agent. However, we would like to upgrade our 8i databases and therefore do not want to lower our OEM agent version to accomodate something that will phase out soon. In the meantime, I am getting collection errors. Some I was able to fix since error message had perl line number in it.... I know this is unsupported, but hopefully Oracle could list it as a valid work-around. There are just a few messages left:
Target MYDB
Type Database Instance
Metric Data Base parameter collection, Remote Password File, Remote OS Roles and Authentication, DB Password Setting
Collection Timestamp May 18, 2007 6:02:57 AM
Error Type Collection Failure
Message ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement
This was really 4 different metric error messages. Does anyone have suggestions of how to clear these error messages? I am fine with not collecting this info for our v8 databases. I was wondering if I could delete from sysman.MGMT_CURRENT_METRIC_ERRORS?
Or if someone knows how to fix these last few errors, that would be even better.
Thanks.

Answer 1

No, all oracle8 dbs are at 8.1.7.4 (none at lower version).
References:
Metalink: WRONG SQL STATEMENTS IN ESAPRIVREPORTS.PL FOR 8.1.7.4 DATABASES (bug# 6130510)
Forum: Metric Collection Errors
Metalink: METRIC COLLECTION ERRORS AGAINST 8.1.7.4 DATABASES MONITORED BY GRID CONTROL (bug# 5921130)
Steps I have taken:
1. Used Note:373394.1 to grant appropriate privs
2. modified perl scripts until collection errors were resolved.
a) Ran the following statements on Oracle 8.1.7.4 database:
alter system set "_new_connect_by_enabled" = TRUE;
grant select on sysauth$ to dbsnmp;
3. have a handful (5 or 6) of errors left with no perl filenames, line numbers, etc. I would like to figure out how to either suppress these or resolve them so that I don't have to manually filter through metric errors trying to determine which are valid and which are not.
Thanks.