Re: One listener but two listener binaries in multihomed environment

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:21:11 +0200, Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote:

>Hello
>
>I have two Oracle versions installed (8.1.70 and 9.2.0.1)under Linux
>Advanced Server 2.1 (Red Hat),and there are two environments around
>different ORACLE_HOMEs. Almost everything works nice, we have several
>DB running different Oracle versions. But I am having trouble starting
>the OMS and/or connecting to it. I found out, that as the user oracle8
>I can check the listener status using the binary from $ORACLE_HOME/bin
>and then I get a response coming from the version 9! When I check the
>listener status using the binary of version 9.2.0.1, the output is
>similar. Only the listener from version 9 was really started.
>
>There seems to be some conflict with listeners, agents and OMS. The
>host seems to "freeze" every now and then for a couple of seconds,
>which can be seen when logged in via telnet. Only when I shut down the
>OMS and the agent the symptom disappeared.
>
>When I restart the agent (agentctl start) and the OMS (oemctl start
>oms), I can't connect to it using the OEM console (VTK-1000). Then I
>can't shutdown the OMS because the authentication fails - in order to
>shutdown the OMS a password is required. I had to reset sysman's
>password to the default of oem_temp to be sure it is not my fault.
>There is still a process oemLauchOms running, which I had to kill
>manually. "oemctl ping oms" says that there is no OMS running, but
>starting the OMS I get a message that it is already running.
>
>I checked several log files (dbsnmp.log, oem.nohup etc.) and found at
>times a message telling me something about "address already in use").
>I also found error VXA-2012 and VXA-2008, and, of course, VTK-1000.
>
>Can I choose any port for the OMS to listen to? Where do I configure
>it? Which is the default one?
>
>At the time when I only had one Oracle Version running, I did not have
>these problems! I always switch environment according to the DB
>version I work with.
>
>Any hint?
>
>Rick Denoire

Use the higher version listener only and forget about the 8i listener. Listeners are downwards compatible.

 The 9i agent is compatible with 8i, so you don't need the 8i agent.

Ports are defined in snmp_ro.ora and snmp_rw.ora. The default ports are 1748 and 1754

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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