Oracle Configuration Manager is a standalone utility, distributed with Oracle products, used to collect product configuration information and upload it to the Oracle repository. When the product configuration data is uploaded on a regular basis, customer support representatives can analyze this data and provide better service to customers.
Oracle Configuration Manager may not be installed in customer environments because of restricted connectivity to the Internet or it may not have been bundled with the product at the time of installation. Utilities are now available to solve these problems. The Oracle Support Hub provides a tunnelling service which enables many systems on a corporate intranet to access the Oracle server. The Mass Deployment Utility enables the installation or configuration of Oracle Configuration Manager into many homes from a central location. The two utilities comprise the Oracle Companion Distribution kit.
This chapter provides the following information:
The Companion Distribution kit contains two utilities:
Oracle Configuration Manager Mass Deployment Utility
Installs the Oracle Configuration Manager into the homes of Oracle products that do not have Oracle Configuration Manager installed. This is done from a central location.
Updates and configures various systems from a single location
Enables access to sites that are not on the Internet or have limited Internet access.
There are Oracle products that currently do not bundle Oracle Configuration Manager as part of their kit. Also, there are previous product installations where Oracle Configuration Manager was installed, but not configured. The manual installation of Oracle Configuration Manager in these environments can be tedious and time consuming. The Oracle Mass Deployment Utility can facilitate the deployment of Oracle Configuration Manager in these environments from a single location.
The Mass Deployment Utility enables you to:
Install Oracle Configuration Manager into the home of Oracle products where Oracle Configuration Manager is not installed or configured
Update Configuration Manager installations to the latest version
Change the configuration of Oracle Configuration Manager in existing configurations
This distribution is accomplished from a single location to many systems where Configuration Manager is not installed, not configured, or running an older version of Configuration Manager.
Chapter 2, "Mass Deployment" explains the Mass Deployment Utility in detail.
The Oracle Support Hub (formerly known as Oracle Configuration Manager Repeater) is an HTTP tunnel that enables the upload of the configuration data from individual Oracle Configuration Manager instances to the repository maintained at Oracle.
The Support Hub is deployed in the customer's network but it contains a connection to the external network. Therefore, the Support Hub becomes the only point of access needed between inside the network and the outside Internet.
Note:
The Support Hub utility within the Companion Distribution Kit is no longer compatible. See Oracle Configuration Manager Support Hub Guide for more information about downloading, deploying, and configuring Oracle Support Hub.The Companion Distribution kit is available for download from both the Collector tab and the Patches and Updates tab on My Oracle Support.
From the Patches and Updates tab on My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com):
Click the Search tab in the Patch Search region.
In the 'Patch Name or Number' search section, enter 8355285. Click Search.
From the Patch Search Results page, click the patch name, and download the OCM COMPANION DISTRIBUTION (Patch).
Unzip the file as follows:
unzip -d <full_path> p8355285_1000_Generic.zip
where <full_path> represents the full path where you want to locate the kit
For example:
unzip -d /scratch/jsmith/install/ p8355285_1000_Generic.zip
The following will be placed in the ocm_companion/distributions destination directory:
Mass Deployment Utility kit (ocm_massdeployment-10.0.1.0.0.zip)
Support Hub kit (oracle_support_hub-10.3.1.1.0.zip)
Therefore the ocm_companion/distributions destination directory looks like the following:
ocm_companion/distributions
ocm_massdeployment-10.0.1.0.0.zip (Mass Deployment Utility kit)
oracle_support_hub-10.3.1.1.0.zip (Support Hub kit)
Copy these zip files to the location where you want to install the kits.