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Background & Overview

It is strongly recommended that you use the Grid Control frontend to install a Grid Control Agent as documented here. However, if this is not possible or there is a requirement to perform manual installs, then this guide details how to manually deploy a Grid Control Agent to an Oracle Enterprise Linux server.

If you wish to deploy a Grid Control Agent to a different platform, you will first need to download the Grid Control Agent Software from OTN.

Assumptions & Pre-Requisites

• That you do not want to receive My Oracle Support updates
• The server does not have direct access to the internet and instead uses a proxy server to speak with Oracle.
• The grid control front-end cannot be used to install the agent.

Useful Information

• Known Issues

Step-By-Step Guide

1. Log onto the server where the agent is being installed.

2. Download the agent software from OTN into /u01/app/oracle/software

Gird Control Agent11g Linux Operating System (64bit)
Linux_x86_64_Grid_Control_agent_download_11_1_0_1_0.zip : 487,008,620 bytes; cksum - 3990071692

3. Unzip the agent software

• cd /u01/app/oracle/software
• unzip Linux_x86_64_Grid_Control_agent_download_11_1_0_1_0.zip

4. Configure the additional_agent.rsp file

• cd /u01/app/oracle/software/linux_x64/response
• cp additional_agent.rsp additional_agent.bck
• Edit the additional_agent.rsp and set the relevant variables
  • SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT=FALSE
  • DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=TRUE
  • PROXY_USER=valid userid
  • PROXY_PWD=valid password
  • PROXY_HOST=proxyhost.domain.com
  • PROXY_PORT=proxy port
  • ORACLE_AGENT_HOME_LOCATION=/u01/app/oracle
  • OMS_HOST=oms hostname
  • OMS_PORT=4889
  • AGENT_REGISTRATION_PASSWORD=valid password

NOTES

• The items in blue will be specific to each individual site.
• The ORACLE_AGENT_HOME_LOCATION is really the AGENT_BASE directory. Specifying /u01/app/oracle for the
• ORACLE_AGENT_HOME_LOCATION will result in the agent binaries being installed in /u01/app/oracle/agent11g

5. Run the installer in silent mode

• cd /u01/app/oracle/software/linux_x64/agent
• ./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /u01/app/oracle/software/linux_x64/response/additional_agent.rsp

NOTES

• The install must be done in silent mode. GUI mode is no longer supported for 11g Agent installs.

6. Shutdown the Agent

• cd /u01/app/oracle/agent11g/bin
• ./emctl stop agent

7. Get a UNIX Administrator to run the root.sh script on each host where the agent was deployed.

• cd /u01/app/oracle/agent11g
• ./root.sh

8. Start the Grid Agent

• cd /u01/app/oracle/agent11g/bin
• ./emctl start agent

Known Issues

Files in the Linux_x64 build have the wrong permissions set.

For some earlier releases of the Grid Control Agent, after unzipping the binaries some of the files have the wrong file permissions set.

Fix

• cd /u01/app/oracle/software/linux_x64
• chmod -R 644 *