What's New

This chapter describes new features in the Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 3 (10.2.0.3.0) installer.

The new Enterprise Manager installer provides an installation that is almost completely automated. In this release, the Enterprise Manager installer also provides the following:

• Renders seamless multiple Oracle home installations and configurations during a single session.

• Facilitates individual maintenance cycles for each of the top-level product components.

  This is brought about by installing the database and Oracle Management Service (OMS) in separate Oracle homes. In this release, the Enterprise Manager installer will perform a chain install, wherein it will install the OMS, database, and the agent in separate Oracle homes (oms10g, db10g, and agent10g).

• Facilitates an Oracle Management Service upgrade from 10.1.0.4 release (and later) to 10.2.0.3.0

• Facilitates an Oracle Management Agent upgrade from 10.1.0.3 release (and later) to 10.2.0.3.0

• Facilitates mass deployment of the Management Agent using the Agent Deploy application.

• Provides a ready-to-use secure Enterprise Manager Grid Control environment.

• Provides automated startup scripts that help start the Oracle Database, Management Service, listener, and the Management Agent during a machine reboot (UNIX platforms only).

• Allows the user to resume the installation process from the point where it was terminated, through the built-in resumability feature of the installer.

Multiple Oracle Home Installations

The Enterprise Manager installer provides for a seamless installation experience by performing multiple Oracle home installations, depending on the type of installation that you select.

An Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control installation using a new database will create a separate Oracle home for:

• Oracle Management Service

• Oracle Database

• Oracle Management Agent

Seamless Oracle Home Configurations

The Enterprise Manager installer performs multiple Oracle home configurations during the installation process. The configuration tools that are run during installation will depend on the installation type that you have selected.

The following table lists all the configuration tools that are run during an Enterprise Manager installation using a new database:

Running Root.sh (UNIX only)

You are now required to run only one script, allroot.sh, in this release of the installer, as compared to the three root.sh scripts (one for each Oracle home) that you had to run in the previous release.

Resuming an Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation

In the event of an unexpected termination of the installation process, the Resumability feature of the installer allows you to resume the installation process (the next time the installer is invoked) from the point where the installation was aborted.

Out-of-Box Secure Grid Environment

The new Enterprise Manager 10g installer provides a secure Grid Control environment that is immediately ready to use.

Automated Startup Scripts (UNIX Only)

In this release of Enterprise Manager, the startup scripts to run the Oracle database, Management Service, listener, and agent are automatically executed in case a machine reboots. The services that are automatically started depend on the installation type that you chose.

Automated Secure Shell (SSH) Setup During Push Install

In Enterprise Manager Grid control 10.2.0.3.0, users do not have to run the SSH user equivalence script (sshUserSetup.ssh/sshUserSetupNT.ssh, sshConnectivity.sh) before starting the push install, to establish the SSH user equivalence between the Oracle Management Service and agent targets. In Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.3.0, the push application sets up and drops the SSH connection automatically between the Oracle Management Service and the agent targets accordingly, but if agent targets are on Windows operating systems, then user needs to setup Cygwin as explained in Appendix C, to start the push agent install.

Oracle Configuration Manager

Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) is designed to gather and provide customer's configuration information and store it in Oracle repository for maintenance and other related tasks. This feature was introduced from Grid Control Release 10.2.0.2.0 onwards.

Enhanced Installer Screens

The Enterprise Manager 10g R2 installer's enhanced Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides for a more user-friendly installation experience.

Installation Location

After you select the appropriate installation option in the first screen (Specify Installation Type), you will be prompted to specify the Parent Directory in the Specify Installation Location screen, wherein the Oracle homes are created automatically.

Specify Configuration

The Specify Configuration screen for installing Enterprise Manager using an existing database has changed. The single Connect String value (comprising a host name, port, and SID) that you had to specify in the previous release has been changed to three input fields.

Language Selection

This screen has been removed. You can now select the required languages by clicking Product Languages in the Installation Location screen.

Prefill Tablespace Location

The Specify Repository Database Configuration screen now includes the Prefill Tablespace Locations button. Upon clicking this button, the installer queries the database that you have specified, looks for the SYSAUX tablespace location, and automatically prefills that path in the appropriate tablespace location text boxes.