Stupid or not: how to use emdiag ?

Question

After having read all the metalink notes about EMDiag, i'm still not able to use it except for very basic mode. I'm not sure if i'm completely stupid or if there is something wrong about it.
I'm trying to use the analyze mode but :
repvfy analyze agent
Please enter the SYSMAN password:
repvfy 2009.1009 - EMDIAG - Repository verification
Usage:
repvfy [-{h}] [-i] [-t <trace lvl>] [-zip] <commands>
[-usr <user>] [-pwd <pwd>] [-tns <tns alias>]
[-module <module name>] [-test <test number>] [-level <level>] [-fix] [-detail]
[-name <obj name>] [-type <obj type>] [-col <obj col>] [-owner <obj owner>] [-guid <obj guid>]
[-stime <start time>] [-etime <end time>] [-id <obj id>] [-vers <obj version>]
[{d|o} <home>] [log <dir>] [{sid} <name>] [u {<env>,...}] [v {<env>=<var>,...}]
-- Available modules for VERIFY --
AGENTS Grid Control Agents
ASLM Application Server Level Monitoring
AVAILABILITY Availbility sub-system
BLACKOUTS Blackout sub-system
CA Corrective Actions
CREDENTIALS Credentials
DEVELOPMENT Development/Test (internal only)
ECM Configuration Management
EVENT Event sub-system
JOBS Job sub-system
LOADERS Loader
METRICS Metrics
NOTIFICATIONS Notification sub-system
PLUGINS Plugins and extentions
POLICIES Policies and violations
PROVISIONING Provisioning setup and configuration
RCA Root Cause Analysis Engine
REPORTS Reporting framework
REPOSITORY Repository
ROLES Roles and privileges
TARGETS Targets
TEMPLATES Templates
USERS User sub-system
Can not find (agent) object in the repository
It's like he cannot recognize i'm using analyze mod. but if i'm trying:
repvfy analyze
Please enter the SYSMAN password:
repvfy 2009.1009 - EMDIAG - Repository verification
Usage:
repvfy [-{h}] [-i] [-t <trace lvl>] [-zip] <commands>
[-usr <user>] [-pwd <pwd>] [-tns <tns alias>]
[-module <module name>] [-test <test number>] [-level <level>] [-fix] [-detail]
[-name <obj name>] [-type <obj type>] [-col <obj col>] [-owner <obj owner>] [-guid <obj guid>]
[-stime <start time>] [-etime <end time>] [-id <obj id>] [-vers <obj version>]
[{d|o} <home>] [log <dir>] [{sid} <name>] [u {<env>,...}] [v {<env>=<var>,...}]
-- Available modules for ANALYZE --
AGENT Grid Control Agents
BLACKOUT Blackout metadata and configuration
CA Corrective Actions
JOB Grid Control Job
METRIC Metric metadata and configuration
PLUGIN Plugins and extentions
REPORT Reporting framework
ROLE Role and privileges
TARGET Target metadata and configuration
TEMPLATE Template metadata and configuration
USER Grid Control Administrator
No module specified for analyze
Any ideas ?
thanks
Edited by: Christophe Ortiz on Feb 10, 2010 4:47 PM

Answer 1

Thanks for the info but i've read already this note. By the way when i try this command:
repvfy analyze blackout -owner sysman -level 3 -detail
Please enter the SYSMAN password:
repvfy 2009.1009 - EMDIAG - Repository verification
Usage:
repvfy [-{h}] [-i] [-t <trace lvl>] [-zip] <commands>
[-usr <user>] [-pwd <pwd>] [-tns <tns alias>]
[-module <module name>] [-test <test number>] [-level <level>] [-fix] [-detail]
[-name <obj name>] [-type <obj type>] [-col <obj col>] [-owner <obj owner>] [-guid <obj guid>]
[-stime <start time>] [-etime <end time>] [-id <obj id>] [-vers <obj version>]
[{d|o} <home>] [log <dir>] [{sid} <name>] [u {<env>,...}] [v {<env>=<var>,...}]
-- Available modules for VERIFY --
AGENTS Grid Control Agents
ASLM Application Server Level Monitoring
AVAILABILITY Availbility sub-system
BLACKOUTS Blackout sub-system
CA Corrective Actions
CREDENTIALS Credentials
DEVELOPMENT Development/Test (internal only)
ECM Configuration Management
EVENT Event sub-system
JOBS Job sub-system
LOADERS Loader
METRICS Metrics
NOTIFICATIONS Notification sub-system
PLUGINS Plugins and extentions
POLICIES Policies and violations
PROVISIONING Provisioning setup and configuration
RCA Root Cause Analysis Engine
REPORTS Reporting framework
REPOSITORY Repository
ROLES Roles and privileges
TARGETS Targets
TEMPLATES Templates
USERS User sub-system
Can not find (blackout) object in the repository