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

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.

"K De Weerd" <kdew1508_at_freebel.be> schreef in bericht news:e6eeab9d.0204040441.4aca5e3d_at_posting.google.com...
> 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?
>
> Or even :
> Is it at all possibly tu use OEM 2.2 to manage even the older versions
> of Oracle Server?
>
> More generally :
> Do we need to consider any performance issue?
>
> 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
Received on Mon Apr 08 2002 - 14:36:35 CDT