Manual install of 12.1.0.3 cloud control agent

If you need to install a cloud control agent without using the auto deployment features from within the screens (not sure why you'd want to make things difficult for yourself) here is how you do it:

Firstlt track down the agent software you want from within the cloud repository and export it - it will come up with a popup giving you the command line and the id to do just that.

 Once you have the id go to the command line and login with emcli

emcli login -username=sysman

Enter password :

Then export the agent software to a file

emcli export_update -id=CCFD0DC95C5AF6E64AEC138C9F8BAC52 -omslocal -dir=/oracle/grid_control_catalog_metalink_zip

this created the file p17014942_112000_Generic.zip (same as the original file downloaded by cloud control)

You then need to copy this to the server you want to monitor, and then unzip as shown below:

unzip p17014942_112000_Generic.zip

Archive:  p17014942_112000_Generic.zip

  inflating: archives/12.1.0.3.0_AgentCore_212.zip

  inflating: su_manifest.xml

  inflating: readme.txt

cd archives

unzip 12.1.0.3.0_AgentCore_212.zip

Archive:  12.1.0.3.0_AgentCore_212.zip

  inflating: unzip

  inflating: agentDeploy.sh

  inflating: agentimage.properties

  inflating: agent.rsp

 extracting: agentcoreimage.zip

Then try the install (which would have worked at 12.1.0.1)

agentDeploy.sh AGENT_BASE_DIR=/app/oracle/product/agent12c OMS_HOST=server.domain EM_UPLOAD_PORT=4901 AGENT_PORT=3872 AGENT_REGISTRATION_PASSWORD=password –ignorePrereqs

 Validating the OMS_HOST & EM_UPLOAD_PORT

Executing command : /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/jdk/bin/java -classpath /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/jlib/agentInstaller.jar:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/jlib/OraInstaller.jar oracle.sysman.agent.installer.AgentInstaller /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0 /app/oracle/product/sw/archives /app/oracle/product/agent12c -prereq

Validating oms host & port with url: http://server:4901/empbs/genwallet

Validating oms host & port with url: https://server:4901/empbs/genwallet

Return status:3-oms https port is passed

Unzipping the agentcoreimage.zip to /app/oracle/product/agent12c ....

plugin.zip

Executing command : /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/jdk/bin/java  -d64 -classpath /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/jlib/OraInstaller.jar:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/jlib/xmlparserv2.jar:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/jlib/srvm.jar:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/jlib/emCfg.jar:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/jlib/agentInstaller.jar:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/jlib/share.jar oracle.sysman.agent.installer.AgentInstaller /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0 /app/oracle/product/sw/archives /app/oracle/product/agent12c /app/oracle/product/agent12c/agent_inst AGENT_BASE_DIR=/app/oracle/product/agent12c

Executing agent install prereqs...

Executing command: /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/bin/runInstaller -debug   -ignoreSysPrereqs -prereqchecker -silent -ignoreSysPrereqs -waitForCompletion  -prereqlogloc /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/cfgtoollogs/agentDeploy -entryPoint oracle.sysman.top.agent_Complete -detailedExitCodes PREREQ_CONFIG_LOCATION=/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/prereqs  -J-DAGENT_BASE_DIR=/app/oracle/product/agent12c

Prereq Logs Location:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/cfgtoollogs/agentDeploy/prereq<timestamp>.log

ERROR: Agent Install Prereqs failed

agentDeploy.sh AGENT_BASE_DIR=/app/oracle/product/agent12c OMS_HOST=server.domain EM_UPLOAD_PORT=4901 AGENT_REGISTRATION_PASSWORD=pass -ignorePrereqs

Performing the agent configuration...

Executing command: /app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/oui/bin/runConfig.sh ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0 RESPONSE_FILE=/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/agent.rsp ACTION=configure MODE=perform COMPONENT_XML={oracle.sysman.top.agent.11_1_0_1_0.xml} RERUN=true

Configuration Log Location:/app/oracle/product/agent12c/core/12.1.0.3.0/cfgtoollogs/cfgfw/CfmLogger<timestamp>.log

ERROR: Agent Configuration Failed

SEVERE: oracle.sysman.top.agent:ERROR: The Management Agent configuration failed. The plug-in configuration for the oracle.sysman.oh monitoring plug-in may h

ave failed, or this plug-in may not be present in the Management Agent software. Ensure that the Management Agent software has the oracle.sysman.oh monitorin

g plug-in, if not then retry the operation. If the agent software has the oracle.sysman.oh monitoring plug-in, view the plug-in deployment log /app/oracle/pr

oduct/agent12c/agent_inst/install/logs to check if the plug-in configuration for the oracle.sysman.oh monitoring plug-in failed.

This is due to a missing file which is very difficult to actually get the source for - in the end i had to do a deply to another server and the file is created as part of the agent push to that server - you can then copy this file (there must be a better way than this of extracting the file). For me the file was generated in the directory below on the OMS.

oracle@server:/oracle/gc_inst12103/em/EMGC_OMS1/sysman/agentpush/2013-07-12_22-37-12-PM/plugins/aix> ls

12.1.0.3.0_PluginsOneoffs_212.zip

Then rerun the install once the plugins file is present (in the same directory as agentcore.zip)

agentDeploy.sh AGENT_BASE_DIR=/app/oracle/product/agent12c OMS_HOST=server.e-ssi.net EM_UPLOAD_PORT=4901 AGENT_REGISTRATION_PASSWORD=password –ignorePrereqs

Followed by the usual root.sh and it’s all done!

!UPDATE! - there is a simper way - see the next post http://dbaharrison.blogspot.de/2013/07/manual-install-of-agent-follow-up.html