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14 Oracle Management Agent
This chapter describes the Oracle Management Agent for BS2000/OSD and provides
installation and configuration information. The reader is supposed to be familiar with
Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The Oracle Management Agent for BS2000/OSD is responsible for monitoring all
components on the host computer. Once installed, the Oracle Management Agent
knows how to monitor default target types, such as the Oracle Database. For more
information, refer to Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts.
This chapter describes the following sections:
■ Preinstallation Issues
■ Running the Installation Script
■ Running the Agent
■ Restrictions
■ Troubleshooting
14.1 Preinstallation Issues
The following is a list of preinstallation issues:
■ Check if the BS2000/OSD POSIX subsystem is started
■ Check if the openNet Server tool netstat is installed under POSIX.
■ Check if jenv v6.0 is installed
■ Check if perl v5.8 is installed
If one of the required software packages is not installed, then install the software
package first before installing Oracle Management Agent.
■ Ensure that the user address space is 1 GB
■ Ensure that there is at least 1 GB disc space available on the POSIX file system
■ Ensure that the file /etc/hosts includes an entry with a loopback address for the
localhost similar to the following example:
127.0.0.1 localhost local # loopback
■ Add all Oracle databases you want to monitor the file /var/opt/oracle/oratab
with the following format:
ORACLE_SID:ORACLE_HOME:N|Y:ORACLE_DATA