Re: Intelligent Agents

Graham Hilling (hilling2_at_boat.bt.com) wrote:
: I'm pretty new to Oracle (as I'm sure this question will backup!) so
: please bear with me.
:
: I am having great difficulty in getting Intelligent agents to run on our
: Unix machine. We're using 7.3.3 and as far as I'm aware, all of the
: correct config files are in place (tnsnames.ora, listener.ora). When I

You also need a file called snmp.ora, and you have to run catsnmp.sql against at least one instance(I think - haven't set this up in awhile). This should be documented in one of the OEM manuals that came with your installation kit. If you didn't get them, call tech support - they have a number of documents that give step-by-step instructions.

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: try to start the agent from lsnrctl with the command dbsnmp_start I get
: a couple of lines of Oracle copyright and am then returned to the
: prompt.
:
: Using dbsnmp_status tells me that the db subagent is not active.
:
: The standard listener is working and I can log on to the machine through
: SQLNet with no problems.
:
: Any one point me in the right direction?
:
: Graham
Received on Sun Aug 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT