1. Cloud Control Advanced Installation and Configuration Guide
  2. Getting Started
  3. Procuring the Software

1 Procuring the Software

This chapter describes how you can procure the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software and the Oracle Management Agent software. In particular, this chapter covers the following:

Releases Available for Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Table 1-1 describes the releases Enterprise Manager Cloud Control has had so far.

Table 1-1 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Releases

Release Numbers Release Type Release Date Implementation Method Description

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 4

Major Release

January 2020

  • New installation of 13c Release 4

  • Upgrade from 13c Release 3, 13c Release 2

The forth 13c release.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 3

Major Release

May 2018

  • New installation of 13c Release 3

  • Upgrade from 13c Release 2, 12c Release 5 (12.1.0.5, 12)c Release 4 (12.1.0.4)

The third 13c release.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 2

Major Release

June 2016

  • New installation of 13c Release 2

  • Upgrade from 13c Release 1, 12c Release 5 (12.1.0.5, 12)c Release 4 (12.1.0.4)

The second 13c release.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1

Base Release

December 2015

  • New installation of 13c Release 1

  • Upgrade from 12c Release 5 (12.1.0.5), 12c Release 4 (12.1.0.4), 12c Release 3 (12.1.0.3)

First ever 13c release.

Note:

For more information on these releases and the platforms they support, access the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Certification Matrix. For instructions to access this matrix, refer to the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Basic Installation Guide.

Procuring the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Software

You can procure the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software from either the product DVD or Oracle Software Downloads site. This section describes these sources and covers the following:

How Do You Access the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Software from a DVD?

You can obtain the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software from the product DVD that is available through Oracle Service Delivery Managers or Oracle Sales Representatives. The software may be available either on a single DVD or on multiple DVDs depending on the operating system.

This section covers the following:

Accessing the Software from a DVD

If the software is available on a single DVD, then insert the DVD into the DVD drive, and run the .bin file.

If the software is available on multiple DVDs, then copy the archived software from each of the DVDs to a location on your local disk. Then, run the .bin file. No need to extract the archived (ZIP) files. Retain them as .bin and .zip files.

Setting Mount Points for a DVD

If you want to access the DVD from a shared DVD drive, then set a mount point for the DVD drive.

On most Linux operating systems, the disk mounts automatically when you insert the DVD into the DVD drive. However, for some Linux operating systems, you might have to manually mount the disk. To verify whether the disk mounts automatically and to manually mount the disk if it does not mount itself automatically, follow these steps:

  1. Insert the DVD into the disk drive.

  2. To verify if the disk is automatically mounted, run the following command:

    • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

      # ls /mnt/cdrom

    • On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server:

      # ls /media/cdrom

  3. If the command in Step (2) fails to display the contents of the disk, then run the following command:

    • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

      # mount -t nfs <host name>:/mnt/<full path to the dvdrom>

    • On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server:

      # mount -t nfs <host name>:/media/<full path to the dvdrom>

On most AIX operating systems, the disk mounts automatically when you insert the DVD into the DVD drive. However, for some AIX operating systems, you might have to manually mount the disk. To manually mount the disk if it does not mount itself automatically, follow these steps:

  1. Switch the user to root user by running the following command:

    $ su -root

  2. Insert the disk into the drive.

    Note:

    If required, enter the following command to eject the currently mounted disk and to remove it from the drive:

    # /usr/sbin/umount /<SD_DVD>

  3. Enter the following command:

    # /usr/sbin/mount -rv cdrfs /dev/cd0 /SD_DVD

    In this example command, /SD_DVD is the disk mount point directory and /dev/cd0 is the device name for the disk device.

  4. If you are prompted to specify the disk location, then specify the disk mount point directory path. For example, /SD_DVD

How Do You Procure the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Software from Oracle?

You can procure the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software from Oracle Software Downloads site. The software available is archived using Info-ZIP's highly portable ZIP utility. The software is available in ZIP files. After downloading the software, you will need the UNZIP utility to extract the files.

This section covers the following:

Downloading the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Software

To download the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software, follow these steps:

  1. As the install user who will be installing the product, create a directory where you can download and store the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software files.
  2. Access Enterprise Manager Download from Oracle Software Downloads site.
  3. Download the following files:

    • For UNIX platforms:

      • em13400_<platform>.bin

      • em13400_<platform>-2.zip

      • em13400_<platform>-3.zip

      • em13400_<platform>-4.zip

      • em13400_<platform>-5.zip

      • em13400_<platform>-6.zip

      • em13400_<platform>-7.zip

    • For Microsoft Windows platforms:

      • setup_em13400_win64.exe

      • setup_em13400_win64-2.zip

      • setup_em13400_win64-3.zip

      • setup_em13400_win64-4.zip

      • setup_em13400_win64-5.zip

      • setup_em13400_win64-6.zip

      • setup_em13400_win64-7.zip

    WARNING:

    Do not extract the contents of the downloaded archived (ZIP) files like you did for the previous releases of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. Retain them as .bin and .zip files.

  4. As the install user who will be installing the product, set the execute permission for the .bin or the .exe file.

    For example, on UNIX platforms, set the execute permission for the em13400_linux64.bin file.

    chmod +x em13400_linux64.bin

  5. Verify that the execute permission has been correctly set for the .bin or the .exe file.

    For example, on UNIX platforms, run the following command:

    ls -ltr

    You should see a similar output that lists the file permissions: 

    -r-xr-xr-x 1 user1 group1 2032373759 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64.bin
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 group1 2022925751 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64-2.zip
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 group1 2046336073 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64-3.zip
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 group1 653990632 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64-4.zip
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 group1 653990632 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64-5.zip
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 group1 653990632 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64-6.zip
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 group1 653990632 Jul 14 03:57 em13400_linux64-7.zip
Verifying the File Size of Enterprise Manager Zip Files

After downloading the ZIP files, run the cksum command against the ZIP files and check if the file checksum of the downloaded software is the same as the file checksum displayed on Oracle Software Downloads site.

The following is the format of the ZIP files released for 13c Release 4 for UNIX platforms. Here, <platform> refers to the operating system and N refers to the ZIP file number. For example, em13400_linux64-2.zip, em13400_linux64-3.zip, em13400_linux64-4.zip, em13400_linux64-5.zip, em13400_linux64-6.zip and em13400_linux64-7.zip.

em13400_<platform>-N.zip (<value> bytes) (cksum - <value>)

Similarly, the following is the format of the ZIP files released for 13c Release 4 for Microsoft Windows platforms. Here, N refers to the ZIP file number. For example, setup_em13400_win64-2.zip, setup_em13400_win64-3.zip, setup_em13400_win64-4.zip, setup_em13400_win64-5.zip,setup_em13400_win64-6.zip and setup_em13400_win64-7.zip.

setup_em13400_win64-N.zip (<value> bytes) (cksum - <value>)

The value (cksum - <value>) is the file checksum that you need to check. To check the file checksum of the first ZIP file, run the following command:

$ cksum em13400_<platform>-N.zip

For example,

$ cksum em13400_linux64-2.zip

Procuring the Oracle Management Agent Software

Oracle Management Agent (Management Agent) is one of the core components of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, and therefore, its software is part of the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control software. When you install Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, the installation wizard automatically installs a Management Agent.

You can install additional Management Agents using the Add Host Targets Wizard built into the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control console (Cloud Control console). The wizard uses the Management Agent software that is already present in the OMS home.

However, note that the Management Agent software present in the OMS home is always for the version and platform on which that OMS is running. For example, if the OMS is Oracle Management Service 13c Release 2 and it is running on Linux platform, then the Management Agent software available there is also for that release and for that platform.

If you want to install a Management Agent for a platform that is different from the one on which the OMS is running, then ensure that you download that software using the Self Update Console, which is built into the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Console.

For information on Self Update, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administrator's Guide. For instructions to download the software, see the chapter on updating Cloud Control in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Basic Installation Guide.