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

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On 4 Apr 2002 04:41:08 -0800, kdew1508_at_freebel.be (K De Weerd) wrote:

>We are considering setting up OEM to manage several if not all of our
>instances. I'm trying to get a clear picture of the things that would
>be needed and done to set it up flawless.
>
>Running on OpenVMS :
>7.3.2.3.0
>7.3.3.4
>7.3.4.4
>
>Sunning on Solaris :
>Different versions both 8.1.6 and 8.1.7, both 32bit as 64 bit
>
>AFAIK after investigating the info I can find on the web using both
>Oracle and other sites is :
>
>OEM is best installed on a NT or 2000 environment. We'd possibly use a
>somewhat standard PC with sufficient resources to continuesly run a
>small Oracle instance containing the repository. After installing OEM
>we'd have to enable Orafcle Server Manager. I could not find a
>reference that this requires additional installation (?).
>
>Both on this machine as on every machine running instances we'd like
>to manage through OEM, we have to install an Oracle Intelligent Agent.
>
>Here's a question :
>Using different versions of Oracle server, what version of the agent
>needs to be installed? Can or must we install the latest version of
>the agent as supplied with the installation CD of OEM 2.2, or do we
>need to install agent versions appropriate for the version of Oracle
>Server running on that particular machine?

The version that came with the server software
>
>Or even :
>Is it at all possibly tu use OEM 2.2 to manage even the older versions
>of Oracle Server?

Yes
>
>More generally :
>Do we need to consider any performance issue?

No
>
>I'd appreciate ANY information one can provide me with. Even just a
>link to a clear site can be helpfull.
>
>TIA
>
>K De Weerd

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Thu Apr 04 2002 - 10:58:12 CST