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 |
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 4 |
Major Release |
January 2020 |
|
The forth 13c release. |
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 3 |
Major Release |
May 2018 |
|
The third 13c release. |
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 2 |
Major Release |
June 2016 |
|
The second 13c release. |
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 1 |
Base Release |
December 2015 |
|
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:
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Insert the DVD into the disk drive.
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To verify if the disk is automatically mounted, run the following command:
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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
# ls /mnt/cdrom
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On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server:
# ls /media/cdrom
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If the command in Step (2) fails to display the contents of the disk, then run the following command:
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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
# mount -t nfs <host name>:/mnt/<full path to the dvdrom>
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On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server:
# mount -t nfs <host name>:/media/<full path to the dvdrom>
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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:
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:
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,
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.