Preface

This guide is your primary source of preinstallation requirements and certifications, and describes the installation options, and postinstallation configuration information for Enterprise Manager Grid Control (Grid Control).

This preface contains the following topics:

• Intended Audience

• Purpose of the Document

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Intended Audience

This guide is written for Oracle Database system administrators who want to install and configure Grid Control. You should already be familiar with Oracle Database and the administrative tasks you want to perform.

Purpose of the Document

This guide should be used for installing only the full releases of Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 or higher. A full release refers to the first, complete Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 or higher software that was released for a particular platform.

A full release comprises all three components that form Grid Control, mainly Oracle Management Service, Oracle Management Repository, and Oracle Management Agent. You can use the full release to install either all three components or only an additional Oracle Management Service or Oracle Management Agent.

You can also use this guide to upgrade an existing Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 1 (10.1.0.4) or higher release to a full release of Enterprise Manager 10 Grid Control Release 2 or higher. For example, you can use this guide to upgrade an existing Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 1 (10.1.0.4) to Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 (10.2.0.1).

The following shows the full releases of Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 or higher that were released for various platforms. Use this guide for installing only these releases.

Full Release	Targeted Platforms
Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 (10.2.0.1.1) (RECUT)	Linux x86
Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 (10.2.0.1)	Solaris (SPARC) HP-UX (PARISC) AIX5L Based Systems
Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 (10.2.0.2.1) (RECUT)	Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)
Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 3 (10.2.0.3)	Linux X86_64 HP-UX ( Itanium )

In addition, there have been Patch Sets released periodically to patch these full releases and move them to higher releases. For example, Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.2) Patch Set was released for Linux x86 platform. The patch set helps you patch Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 (10.2.0.1) for Linux x86 and move it to Release 2 (10.2.0.2).

This guide does not describe the patching procedures. The patching procedures are furnished in the Patch Set Notes document, which is packaged with the Patch Set, not in this guide. You can download the Patch Sets and the relevant Patch Set Notes from My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink).

Note:

Patch Sets help you to only patch any previous releases of Grid Control and (or) Management Agent; they DO NOT upgrade your existing releases to newer full releases, say Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 1 (10.1.0.4) to Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2 (10.2.0.1).

If you do not have a previous release, but want to have the most recent release of Grid Control, then first install a full release and then use the Patch Sets to patch it to a higher release.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to all users, including users that are disabled. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Deaf/Hard of Hearing Access to Oracle Support Services

To reach Oracle Support Services, use a telecommunications relay service (TRS) to call Oracle Support at 1.800.223.1711. An Oracle Support Services engineer will handle technical issues and provide customer support according to the Oracle service request process. Information about TRS is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/trs.html, and a list of phone numbers is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/trsphonebk.html.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following books in the Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation set:

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Quick Installation Guide

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration for Oracle Collaboration Suite

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Policy Reference Manual

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Metric Reference Manual

• Extending Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface

• Oracle Enterprise Manager SNMP Support Reference Guide

For the latest releases of these and other Oracle documentation, check the Oracle Technology Network at

http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/oem.html

Oracle Enterprise Manager also provides extensive online Help. Click Help at the top of any Enterprise Manager page to display the online help window. This installation guide has been designed to work in close association with the online help provided with the installation.

Conventions

The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
Bold	Bold typeface indicates an element in the user interface.	Click Help for more information.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.	Oracle Database Concepts Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.
lowercase monospace (fixed-width font)	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, file names, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, user names and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus. The password is specified in the orapwd file. Back up the datafiles and control files in the /<DVD>/oracle/dbs directory. The department_id, department_name, and location_id columns are in the hr.departments table. Set the QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED initialization parameter to true. Connect as oe user. The JRepUtil class implements these methods.