Need architecture/config details for GRID Control

Hi All,
I have scoured the Oracle documentation, but I am still interested in the details of the architecture and configuration of OEM Grid Control. I have installed version 10.2.. I want to know more about the various components, how they interact, how information flows in the configuration, how discovery and data collection works etc...
Can you point me to some resources, or maybe a person I can do on offline email conversation with???
catharine

Did you take a look at the Grid Control documentation? The links are under http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.portal_db?selected=21 and the doco for the different platforms are there.

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We are planning on installing Oracle 10g Grid Control onto a server that does not currently have Oracle on at all. It is a 2 processor server. Using this we will be monitoring Oracle databases on 2 other servers, each of which also have 2 processors.
My question is do I need Enterprise Edition or will Standard Edition be ok? We will be using the diagnostics pack in Grid Control, and also rman on the same server. Do I definitely need Enterprise Edition?
Many thanks,
Paula.

Licence questions should be always addressed to an authorized Oracle sales representative, no one in this forum can give you an official and committed answer, you can rely on.
At least documentation shows all Management Packs require the Enterprise Edition:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/options.htm#CIHGFIAF
Werner

Database limits for Grid control repository?

Document "Oracle® Database Licensing Information / 10g Release 2 (10.2)" [Part Number B14199-10] discusses the restricted use license of database for grid control repository and rman repository use.
nfrastructure Repository Databases A separate Oracle Database can be installed and used as a Recovery Manager (RMAN) repository without additional license requirements, provided that all the Oracle databases managed in this repository are correctly licensed. This repository database may also be used for the Oracle Enterprise Grid Control repository. It may not be used or deployed for other uses.
A separate Oracle Database can be installed and used as a Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM Grid Control) repository without additional license requirements, provided that all the targets (databases, applications, and so forth) managed in this repository are correctly licensed. This database may also be used for the RMAN repository. It may not be used or deployed for other uses.
There is no discussion of licensing requirements for options of the database (RAC, partitioning, etc) when the database stays within these repository use restrictions. Therefore it is unclear whether the Grid Control can be configured to provide appropriate monitoring without additional licenses.

This is the reply I received from release
management:
If they have deployed an EE edition of the database
as an OEM repository, and then want to protect that
with RAC or Data Guard, or make more Secure with ASO
or Database Vault, or indeed get any of the
additional benefits any of the options provide, then
they will need to license the option.
Let me know if that is still not clear, and I'll go
back again.Thanks.
There is a minor inconsistency in their response ... they say "if deployed on EE". However, as far as I know OEM repository required VPD, which is available only on Enterprise Edition (see http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B16240_01/doc/em.102/e10953/pre-installation_req.htm#CHDGIEAD)
However, it is quite clear that 'they' are telling us that the RAC option is not inherent in the "Special Use Licensing" as described http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/editions.htm#CJAHFHBJ .
The implication (not necessarily a topic for this forum) is that the OEM is not guaranteed to be able to provide basic monitoring and reporting functionality without additional license fees to make OEM more highly available than the targets being monitored.
It would be nice to have the information about which Oracle products (database and app server) have included licenses with a basic Grid Control install and which require additional licenses as part of Chapter 1 of http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b40010/toc.htm (That document goes into excruciating detail about the extra packs, but ignores the basics.)
For that matter, since OEM Grid Control can not be purchased, it would be nice to have a list of products that provide license to install Grid Control, again in Chapter 1 of the Grid Control Licensing document listed above.
I appreciate your time in having dug into this.

What is Hardware/O.S. Recommendations for Grid Control server

I understand both Linux and Window servers are supported for Grid Control Installation.
However, since we are running Exadata database and cells, what would be your recommendation when we choose which O.S. we should run G.C. on?
Since the entire Exadata environment is running Linux, so, personally I'd prefer to use Linux server. But, what is your preference, and please detail your reasons.
Thank you!
Edited by: 943714 on Jul 12, 2012 9:37 AM

Grid Control (OEMGC 11g) for Windows is only available (certified) for 32 bit Windows. So you can run into memory limitations, dependeing on the number of agents/targets you will be monitoring. Second you have to install Cygwin on your Windows server if you want (or need) to be able to SSH to a Linux/Unix server. Installing Cygwin is very problematic to say the least.
If you would use OEMCC (12c), and I don't know why you wouldn't, you can install the 64 bit version for Windows however you still have to install Cygwin.
So in your case I would go for the Linux version.
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A possible bug for Grid control?

Hi, Dear all,
We installed Grid control 10.2.0.1 on Redhat Linux R3 with existing database(10.2.0.4).
During the installation, we succeeded for repository creating but failed at OMS Configuration.
When I start oms in cmd line, I got the following error: the repository database can not be connected.
The description for the environment:
1. OMS server and repository database are installed on the same server, on which HA is used.
2. There are two floating IP on this machine,
IP | server name | used for |
xx.xx.xx.124 | cnsz030318 | oms server |
xx.xx.xx.80 | oem.db.paci.com.cn | repository database |
3.When we installed the oms with OUI, the repository server we input is oem.db.paci.com.cn
The problem we found:
During the installation, the repository was created successfully. But it failed at OMS configuration.
The error we got: the repository database can not be connected.
there are two lines in emoms.properities which seems strange:
oracle.sysman.eml.mntr.emdRepServer=oem.db.paic.com.cn
oracle.sysman.eml.mntr.emdRepConnectDescriptor=(DESCRIPTION\=(ADDRESS_LIST\=(ADDRESS\=(PROTOCOL\=TCP)(HOST\=cnsz030318.db.paic.com.cn)(PORT\=1535)))(CONNECT_DATA\=(SID\=oem10g)))
The emdRepServer is what we have input on OUI:oem.db.paic.com.cn. But for the connectDescriptor, it is changed to "cnsz030318.db.paic.com.cn", which does not exist at all!.
Now, we have worked around this problem by adding "cnsz030318.db.paic.com.cn" in the /etc/hosts.
But my question is, why the connectDescriptor set the HOST\ as cnsz030318.db.paic.com.cn? Why does it not use the name we input in OUI (oem.db.paic.com.cn)?
Maybe it is a bug for Grid control?

Did you install with "Use existing database" or "Use new database"?
I recommend that you use fully qualified domain names only!
Best regards,
Martin Decker
www.ora-solutions.net
Edited by: mdecker on Jan 7, 2009 2:24 PM

Urgent-- Do we have 10.2.0.2 s/w for grid control on solairs environment

Hi,
Do we have 10.2.0.2 software for grid control management server on a sun solaris sparc environment? I see we have one for agent but we are not seeing anything w.r.t to OMS ?
Your help is appreciated!
Sravanthi.

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at oracle.ops.verification.framework.util.VerificationUtil.isPreReqSupported(VerificationUtil.java:4494)
at oracle.ops.verification.framework.util.VerificationUtil.isPreReqSupported(VerificationUtil.java:4443)
at oracle.cluster.verification.ClusterVerification.isPreReqSupported(ClusterVerification.java:6382)
at oracle.install.driver.oui.OUISetupDriver.verifyEnvironment(OUISetupDriver.java:299)
at oracle.install.driver.oui.OUISetupDriver.load(OUISetupDriver.java:422)
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at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.run(Installer.java:216)
at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.run(DBInstaller.java:126)
at oracle.install.commons.util.Application.startup(Application.java:869)
at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:164)
at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:181)
at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.startup(Installer.java:265)
at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.startup(DBInstaller.java:114)
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"cwui"Error loading control. A newer version needed. The defaultsettings for the control will be used.

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若不是的話煩請提供您
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I heard there have patch need apply to Grid Control 10.20.05 before install Application management pack into it. Anyone know which patch?
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when you click on the tab "Application Servers" on the far upper left site of the GridControl (right next to Hosts, Databases, ...) then
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We are working with CDB 10.2.0.0.0 and the GRID CONTROL AGENT 10.2 is installed so we would like to know some best practices, experiences, implemented tests,... that you can share after working with these products. Our aim is to have a large set of metrics so we can choose the most interesting ones.
In other words, we would like to get more metrics than the default defined ones. So we need people that have worked with the products to share their experiences.
Could you share some info with us (like custom SQL metrics)?
Particularly, we are interested in metrics like:
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o Consumed
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o Of getting the document info
o Of uploading documents
o Of searching a document
· DB response time
o Of downloading a document
o Of getting the document info
o Of uploading documents
o Of searching a document
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Best regards.

Some numbers can be found in the documentation :
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/em.102/b40103/pre-installation_requirements.htm
Though I use more than 2 GB for the OMS installation (AIX).
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Change hostname for Grid Control

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I have installed OEM grid control 10gr2(10.2.0) on solaris. The installation was successfull.
the grid control login page appeared to be as
http://localhost:4889/em
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127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
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Thanks for the reply
The files are there,
$OMS_HOME/sysman/config/emoms.properties
And $AGENT_HOME/sysman/config/emd.properties
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 10.2.0.1.0.
Copyright (c) 1996, 2005 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Agent Version : 10.2.0.1.0
OMS Version : 10.2.0.1.0
Protocol Version : 10.2.0.0.0
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Agent binaries : /u01/app/OracleHomes/agent10g
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Parent Process ID : 9988
Agent URL : https://localhost:3872/emd/main/
Repository URL : https://localhost:1159/em/upload
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Started by user : oracle
Last Reload : 2010-04-09 10:36:08
Last successful upload : 2010-04-09 12:15:37
Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 22.36
Number of XML files pending upload : 0
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I have been setting up grid control and a standby grid control according to the document MAA_WP_10gR2_EnterpriseManagerBestPractices.pdf
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regards
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Repository DB is 11.2.0.1
Both the Grid Control and DB server are running in same machine - redhat 5.
When trying to start the oms, this fails with the below error:
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Release 1 Grid Control
Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Starting WebTier...
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at HTTPClient.StreamDemultiplexor.read(StreamDemultiplexor.java:348)
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at HTTPClient.HTTPResponse.handleResponse(HTTPResponse.java:837)
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I have used the notes in Metalink 1287904.1, but without resolution.
I am able to connect with sqlplus, with user sysman, without issues. There are no invalid objects under sysman.
emoms.trc shows the following:
2011-09-11 15:51:53,160 [JobWorker 22356:Thread-108] WARN jdbc.ConnectionCache _getConnection.353 - Invalid or Stale Connection found in the Connection Cache
java.sql.SQLException: Invalid or Stale Connection found in the Connection Cache
Thank you for support.
Regards,
Horia
Edited by: horia.berca on Sep 13, 2011 5:29 AM
Edited by: horia.berca on Sep 13, 2011 5:32 AM
Edited by: horia.berca on Sep 13, 2011 5:35 AM
Edited by: horia.berca on Sep 13, 2011 5:45 AM

Hello again;
Check the solution in this: ( and note the multiple versions of oracle it covers )
UNABLE TO FIND GRID INFRASTRUCTURE LISTENER (Doc ID 1483234.1)
Best Regards
mseberg

Need information on Installing oracle grid control on 11g R2

Hi,
i am new oracle grid control and its installaion.
I dont have any idea abt OMS and Agent.
following steps i have perfomed.
1) I have 1 DB on my machine.
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Hi,
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