Re: Oracle Agent

Hi Jonathan,
As you don't provide any detail about your Oracle version and the behavior of the Agent has changed several times, I can provide a generic reply only. From 7.3.4 onwards the agent should start automagically :) It can be started manually by running lnsrctl<xx> from a dos box and issue the command dbsnmp_start. To verify the operation use dbsnmp_status. The shortest way to find out whether it exists is searching for the dbsnmp.exe file.
I have a feeling there is more going on there. What could help is delete all *.q files in %ORACLE_HOME%/network/agent directory tree.
Operation of the Agent is logged in %ORACLE_HOME%/network/log/dbsmpc.log and dbsnmpw.log.

Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Centre Hospitalier de BLOIS wrote in message <7ktdmt$fe0$1_at_wanadoo.fr>...
>I don't know anything about Oracle, except that it is a database.
>
>The "OracleAgent" doesn't appear in NT services. Does this mean that it
>wasn't installed? How can I start it?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Jonathan Higgs
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 12:01:37 CDT