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Configuration Tutorial

The following eight steps provide a tutorial and example of setting up

Autodiscovery and persistent Enterprise Manager Jobs.

Step 1. In accordance with Metalink Note 190026.1, establish a fixed value

for the Agent dbsnmpkey. Place this value in a file of your choosing in the

shared Oracle Home (e.g.,

$ORACLE_HOME/network/agent/dbsnmpkey.txt).

Without this key file, the agent file objects created by job submission (*.q)

are not valid after a failover. The pathname of the file is an option passed

to the agentctl start command. The following screen shows an example of

the location and contents of the key file.

Step 2. To function with a Virtual Oracle Service, the Intelligent Agent

config file snmp_rw.ora needs to be modified. The following screen shows

the contents of the snmp_rw.ora file on a server with an

MxDB-Oracle-HiAv Virtual Oracle Service called

Q9DEV.pdx.polyserve.com. When originally created, the sole content of