Re: Oracle Enterprise Manager to manage different instances with different versions on different machines

The intellegent agent (IA) does not exist for VMS. You can manually discover VMS nodes and run the standard OEM modules. I too have a diverse set of OS's (NT, VMS, and Unix) and have not yet found the lack of a IA on VMS to be a large problem. Actually the lack of tnsping is a bigger problem. VMS has an excellent batch system so, I really don't need OEM to run jobs.

For those nodes which do run IA, your interpretation is correct. It is similar to listener, where you run the listener from the highest Oracle home. Oracle is very good at being "backward compatable". (An old VMS term meaning the software understands previous versions.)

Liz

"K De Weerd" <kdew1508*private*@freebel.be> wrote in message news:<a94vli$10va7$1_at_sinclair.be.wanadoo.com>...
> I think the guy does know what he is talking about. He never implied it
> needed to be installed on only one node or server. If that is the impression
> I left, the mistake is all mine.
>
> The agent needs to be installed on every node, but the version on each node
> should be the version of the highest version of Oracle installed on that
> particular node.
>
> So one node with an 8.1.5 and a 8.1.7 server - Install the 8.1.7 agent here
> Another node with 9.0.1 - Install the 9.0.1. agent here
>
> That's his adivce.
>
> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> schreef in bericht
> news:9p14bugtrmio4v268d29l0agvvcdr73r9m_at_4ax.com...
> > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:36:35 +0200, "K De Weerd"
> > <kdew1508*private*@freebel.be> wrote:
> >
> > >Just so you know
> > >
> > >The advise I got from the guy teaching at Oracle University regarding
> this
> > >is :
> > >
> > >Install the version of the agent belonging with the highest version of
> the
> > >Oracle product as installed on the node where the agent is to be
> installed.
> > >
> >
> >
> > The agent needs to be installed on ALL nodes that need to be managed
> > by OEM. The guy obviously doesn't know OEM and Oracle Intelligent
> > Agent. His advise is WRONG!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
> >
> > To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 15:40:27 CDT