Preface

This guide describes the installation and usage of Oracle Configuration Manager.

Note that later releases of this and other Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation may be available on the Oracle Technology Network:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html

Audience

This guide is written for all users of Oracle Configuration Manager. It also written for system administrators who log support calls and upload configuration information to Oracle.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Configuration Manager Release 10.3.4 documentation set:

• Oracle Configuration Manager Release Notes

• Oracle Configuration Manager Quick Start Guide

• Oracle Configuration Manager Collection Overview

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
UNIX Commands	Path separators, specifications and code examples in this book are relevant to the UNIX platforms supported in this release. These need to be changed depending on the platform on which Oracle Configuration Manager is installed.
OCM	Oracle Configuration Manager
ORACLE_CONFIG_HOME	Environment variable used to define the location of instance-specific data in a shared home environment.
<ocm_install_root>	Convention used throughout document to represent the parent directory where the Oracle Configuration Manager code is installed. In most cases, this is the ORACLE_HOME.
OCM_CONFIG_HOME	Convention used throughout document to represent the directory in which the configuration, state, and log information resides. For: 10.2.6 to 10.2.7 or later upgrade, OCM_CONFIG_HOME represents <ocm_install_root>/ccr New 10.2.7 or later installation or a shared home with multiple hosts, OCM_CONFIG_HOME represents <ocm_install_root>/ccr/hosts/<hostname> New 10.2.7 or later installation where there is a single host with multiple instances, OCM_CONFIG_HOME represents ORACLE_CONFIG_HOME/ccr.