Category 12.1.0.2.0
How to Change Properties of a Target in EM12c
One of my colleagues asked me a good question this morning about how to go about changing the properties of a target, specifically the “Contact” field. The properties fields for a target are often over-looked, but are important to the prioritization algorithm for event management. For example, if a target’s Lifecycle Status is Production or […]
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Windows Agent Deployments Made Easy
As of late, I’ve had to do a few Windows OS Agent Deployments. As we all know, if you want to auto deploy to a Windows OS, you need to have CygWin installed (on each target host) first.The alternative, via Silent Install, is illustrated by my good friend Bobby Curtis here. However, for large scale […]
An Alternative to Oracle Enterprise Managers GoldenGate Plugin
If you’ve arrived at this page then, most likely you’re a victim of the JAgent 🙂 Not to be confused with Agent J. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been burned by it when using it for OEM monitoring. The symptoms, if you care to read, include: Hanging Extract and Pumps BDB datastore […]
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c: Unable to Login using SYSMAN after unsuccessful Upgrade
After an incomplete attempt to upgrade OEM 12.1.0.2.0 to 12.1.0.3.0, a few days later I received a call from my client that the sysman password is not working. Interesting. We validated the sysman account from the database and it was correct. The issue was on the WebLogic layer. So, what changed? According to the customer, […]
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12.1.0.2.0 to 12.1.0.3.0 Upgrade with 12.1.0.1.0 Database
As promised, the upgrade steps for a single instance OMS are detailed below. My pre-upgrade environment: Host: OEM 6.3 64bit OMS: 12.1.0.2.0 Repository: 12.1.0.1.0 How pretentious. Of course I know what I’m doing!! [oracle@spoon config]$ emctl config emkey -copy_to_repos_from_file -repos_host spoon.song -repos_port 1521 -repos_sid monster -repos_user sysman -emkey_file /u01/app/oracle/middelware/oms/sysman/config/emkey.ora Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c […]
Fun with DB 12cR1 Upgrade
It’s 5 AM and its pouring outside – couldn’t be a worse start to a July 4th holiday in the summer! I woke up (for some reason) and can’t fall back asleep and figured I might try my luck at a database upgrade with 12.1.0.1 🙂 Many of us have already posted blogs about their […]
Window’ed Incident Management in OEM 12c
A customer had recently ask me; “How can I configure an incident in OEM which only checks for a specific ‘metric’ during a certain period, for example, between 1 AM to 5 AM?” I thought, thats a good question 🙂The only solution I could think of was something similar to maintenance windows with Scheduler Jobs. […]
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