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10g R2 Management Agent Deployment Best Practices
An Oracle White Paper June 2006

10g R2 Management Agent Deployment Best Practices

1.0 – Introduction ............................................................................................. 3 MORE INFORMATION............................................................................... 3 2.0 – Concepts................................................................................................... 4 3.0 – Downloadable Agent Installation ......................................................... 5 3.0.1 – Additional Parameters supported by agentDownload script .............................................................................................. 6 3.0.2 – Downloadable AgentReadme................................................... 6 3.1 – Staging the Downloadable Agent for Various Platforms and Versions ............................................................................................... 6 3.2 – Using the Downloadable Agent With a Server Load Balancer .... 7 3.3 – Using the Downloadable Agent With Real Application Clusters 7 3.3.1 – StandaloneAgents....................................................................... 7 3.3.2 – Clustered Agents ......................................................................... 7 4.0 – NFS Mounted Agent Installation ..................................................... 8 4.1 – Important Installation Notes ............................................................ 8 4.2 – De-installing a NFS Mounted Agent............................................... 9 4.3 – Related Concepts .............................................................................. 10 5.0 – Agent Deployment From Grid Control............................................. 11 5.1 – Environment Setup for Agent Deploy Application .................... 11 5.2 – Performing a Deployment............................................................... 13 5.2.1 – Agent DeployArchitecture...................................................... 15 5.2.2 – Including Additional Files........................................................ 16 5.2.3 – Deploying on a Cluster............................................................. 16 5.2.4 – Deploying a NFS Mounted Agent.......................................... 17 5.3 – AdditionalInformation.................................................................... 18 5.3.1 – Ignoring Banner Messages....................................................... 18 5.3.2 – Runtime System Requirements ............................................... 18 5.3.3 – Using non default SSH port .................................................... 18 5.3.4 – Command locations.................................................................. 195.3.5 - Known issues of Agent Deploy application .......................... 19 5.3.6 –Troubleshooting Information .................................................. 19 5.4 Patch Information for Cross Platform Agent Push........................ 19 5.5 A Note on Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) ........................ 19 6.0 – AgentCloning........................................................................................ 20 Appendix A ...................................................................................................... 21 Known Issues and Workarounds related to the Agent Deploy Application in EM 10.2.0.1.0 .................................................................... 21

Known Issues and Workarounds related to the Agent Deploy Application in EM 10.2.0.2.0.................................................................... 22 Windows Specific known Issues and Workarounds related to the Agent Deploy Application in EM 10.2.0.2.0 ......................................... 25 HP -UX specific known Issues and Workarounds related to Agent Installation in EM 10.2.0.2.0 ..................................................................... 32 Known Issues...