Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 4 (10.2.0.4.

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Last updated: October 22, 2007
Applicable Platforms: Linux x86 (Linux 32-bit) and Windows x86 (Windows 32-bit)
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Table of Contents
-----------------1. General
2. Fresh Installation of Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 2 and upgrad
ing it to Release 4
3. Upgrading any existing 10.2.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installatio
ns to Enterprise
Manger 10g Grid Control Release 4.
4. Upgrading an existing 10.1.0.4.0 or a higher 10.1.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Gr
id Control
installation to the latest Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 4
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1. General
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1.1 Introduction
----------------This document provides information about installing Enterprise Manager 10g Grid
Control Release for following cases:
- Doing a fresh Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 Grid Control installation and u
pgrading it to latest
Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4.
- Upgrading any existing 10.2.0.X Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control installati
ons to latest
Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4.
- Upgrading an existing 10.1.0.4.0 or a higher 10.1.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager 10g
Grid Control
installation to the latest Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4.
1.2 Download Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4
-----------------------------------------------------1.2.1 Download the GridControl_10.2.0.4_<platform name>.zip patch set installati
on archive to any directory on the host which has the Oracle Management Service
running on.
1.2.2 Enter the following command to unzip and extract the installation files:

$ unzip GridControl_10.2.0.4_<platform name>.zip

This will extract following files and directory:
|- p3731593_10204_<platform name>.zip
|- 3731596.zip
|- 3822442.zip
|- p4329444_10104_< platform name >.zip (will not be present for Windows)
|- p4329444_10105_< platform name >.zip (will not be present for Windows)
|- README.txt
|- doc/
*NOTE*: <platform name> will be "LINUX" or "Win32" depending on the platform.
Refer to READEME.txt and the documents under "doc" directory for installing 10.2
.0.4.0
- p3731593_10204_<platform name>.zip is the zip that contains 10.2.0.4.0 patch s
et software.
- 3731596.zip is for patching agent by staging the patch set. Please look at the
Release Notes
section 4.3.3 method 2 under the "doc" directory on how to apply the agent 10.
2.0.4.0 patch set
- 3822442.zip is for patching agent by distributing the full patch set. Please l
ook at the Release
Notes section 4.3.3 method 1 under the "doc" directory on how to apply the age
nt 10.2.0.4.0 patch set
- p4329444_10104_< platform name >.zip is zip that contains patch for bug 432944
4 for "<platform
name>" for RDBMS version 10.1.0.4.0
- p4329444_10105_< platform name >.zip is zip that contains patch for bug 432944
4 for "<platform
name>" for RDBMS version 10.1.0.5.0
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2. Fresh Installation of Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 2 and upgrad
ing it to Release 4
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In order to install Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 4, you must inst
all either 10.2.0.1.0 or 10.2.0.2.0 Grid Control environment. This section descr
ibes steps to install Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 4 environment
starting with 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows) install
2.1 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2
---------------------------------------------------Installing 10g Grid Control Release 4 requires any previous releases of Grid Con
trol, that is any 10.2.0.x.0 installation, and upgrade to 10.2.0.4.0 release. If
you do not have a previous release, but want to have a 10.2.0.4.0 Grid Control
environment, then first install 10.2.0.1.0 Grid Control (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows)
, and then upgrade it to 10.2.0.4.0.

- Download Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 Grid Control from:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oem/index.html
Refer the directions provided to download and unzip the product, and install 1
0.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows).
- Installing Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 Grid Control:
The fast and recommended method is to perform a software only installation of
10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows) and then upgrade it to 10.2.0.4.0. Refer to
section 3.3.5 of the Basic Installation and Configuration Guide available at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html
One can also perform the installation using Oracle Universal Installer as desc
ribed below:
+ Run runInstaller (setup.exe for Windows) to start installation
+ When asked for "install type" option, choose "Enterprise Manager using New D
atabase" or
"Enterprise Manager using Existing Database" option
+ Complete installation as per install guide
*Important*: For information about installing 10.2.0.1.0 and 10.2.0.2.0, refer
to the installation guides available at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html
2.2 Apply required patches to Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 before upg
rade
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the case of Grid Control environment installed via "Enterprise Manager using
New Database" option, repository database version is 10.1.0.4.0. Before upgradin
g to 10.2.0.4, apply the patch for bug 4329444 on the Database Home. In order to
apply this patch for the Linux platform:
- Unzip the file p4329444_10104_<platform name>.zip from the downloaded image de
scribed in section
1.2 using following command:
$ unzip p4329444_10104_<platform name>.zip
- Follow the instruction in 4329444/README.txt to apply the patch to repository
database
For Windows platform bug 4329444 might be encountered in rare cases. Upgrade t
o Grid Control 10.2.0.4 can be proceeded without this patch.
For more detail on this and for other platforms, refer to the release note.
2.3 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4
---------------------------------------------------- Enter the following command to unzip and extract the installation files from t
he downloaded image
described in section 1.2:

$ unzip p3731593_10204_<platform name>.zip

This extracts the files to the "3731593" directory.
- Navigate to the 3731593/Disk1 subdirectory
$ cd 3731593/Disk1
- Set the ORACLE_HOME variable to the Oracle Management Service(OMS) oracle home
.
- Execute the runInstaller (setup.exe for Windows)
$ ./runInstaller
For detailed instructions refer to section 3.2 of the Release notes under the "d
oc" directory.
The upgrades process then upgrades the Oracle Management Service (OMS), Oracle M
anagement Repository and the Management Agent on the same host as the OMS to the
latest Enterprise Manager 10g release 4 version.
*Important*: The same Patch Set can be used for patching OMS,Repository, and Man
agement Agent. For more detail on installing the patch set, refer to the release
note.
2.4 Optional: Upgrading Repository Database to 10.2.0.4
-------------------------------------------------------If you installed Grid Control 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows) via "Enterpris
e Manager using New Database" option, your repository database version is 10.1.0
.4. In order to upgrade your repository database to 10.2.0.4, follow the steps b
elow after upgrading your Grid Control environment to Enterprise Manager 10g rel
ease 4.
a. Upgrade the database to 10.2.0.1
b. Install 10.2.0.4 database patch set
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3. Upgrading any existing 10.2.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installatio
ns to Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 4.
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Follow the steps below to upgrade an existing 10.2.0.1.0 or 10.2.0.2.0 Enterpris
e Manager Grid Control installation:
3.1 Roll-back patch 5191377 if it has been applied to the Oracle Management Serv
ice (OMS)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To check if this patch had been applied to the Oracle Management Service (OMS)
a) Set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to your OMS home

b) Change directory to $<OMS_HOME>/Opatch

$ cd <OMS_HOME>/OPatch
c) Execute following command:
$./opatch lsinv
d) Check the output to see if patch for this bug is applied.
- Rollback the one-off patch 5191377
a) Set your current directory to the directory where the patch is located
$ cd 5191377
b) Run the following command:
$ opatch rollback -id 5191377
- Login as Repository Owner and execute the following command, against SQL promp
t
SQL>drop index mgmt_current_violation_idx_05;
3.2 Apply patches if required to existing installation before upgrade
---------------------------------------------------------------------If Grid Control repository database is DB version 10.1.0.4.0 or 10.1.0.5.0, befo
re upgrading to EM 10204, apply the patch for bug 4329444 on the Database Home.
In order to apply this patch for the Linux platform:
- Copy the p4329444_<version>_<platform name>.zip file from the DVD to any direc
tory on the host
which has the repository database running on.
- Unzip the file using following command:
$ unzip p4329444_<version>_<platform name>.zip
- Follow the instruction in 4329444/README.txt to apply the patch
For Windows platform bug 4329444 might be encountered in rare cases. Upgrade to
Grid Control 10.2.0.4 can be proceeded without this patch.
For more detail on this and for other platforms, refer to the release note.
3.3 Executing required SQLs against repository
---------------------------------------------------------------------If you are using the corrective actions feature in your existing 10.2.0.X.0 depl
oyment, then you may run into a schema inconsistency which can cause an upgrade
to fail (bug 5855008). If you are using corrective actions, then execute the fol
lowing PL/SQL block in the Enterprise Manager repository using sqlplus (connecte
d as SYSMAN), BEFORE doing the upgrade, in order to clean up the inconsistent da
ta.
BEGIN

FOR r IN (SELECT job_id

FROM mgmt_corrective_action a
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT 1
FROM mgmt_job j
WHERE j.job_id = a.job_id)
) LOOP
UPDATE mgmt_policy_assoc_cfg c
SET crit_action_job_id = NULL
WHERE crit_action_job_id = r.job_id
;
UPDATE mgmt_policy_assoc_cfg c
SET warn_action_job_id = NULL
WHERE warn_action_job_id = r.job_id
;
UPDATE mgmt_policy_assoc_cfg c
SET info_action_job_id = NULL
WHERE info_action_job_id = r.job_id
;
DELETE
FROM mgmt_corrective_action
WHERE job_id = r.job_id
;
COMMIT;
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
END;
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3.4 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4
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4. Upgrading an existing 10.1.0.4.0 or a higher 10.1.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Gr
id Control installation to the latest Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release
4
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Follow the steps below:
4.1 Upgrade the existing 10.1.0.4.0 or higher 10.1.0.x.0 installation to Enterpr
ise Manager Grid Control version 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To accomplish this, refer to chapter "Upgrading Enterprise Manager Grid Control"
of the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation and Basic Configuration gui
de available at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html
4.2 Apply patches if required
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Follow step 3.2 above.

4.3 3 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4
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