In my experience, you dont need THIS agent at all.

Reson is that agent is for Oarcle Grid control. But if you use it, they
recommedn to instal agent into the separate home (and it refuse to be
installed into the same home, except if you force this). It allows to
separate system.db monitoring (which is updated with GRID) and database
(which is independent).

EM agent installation installs it's own script, which required to be fixed
in SuSe terms, but works fine after it (moreover, installed adds lines into
it on each installation).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sascha Wehnert" <Sascha.Wehnert@(protected)>
To: <suse-oracle@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject: [suse-oracle] Oracle agent doesn't start


> Hi,
>
> I installed Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 on SLES10 and discovered some issues
> I need some help with. Let's start with this one.
>
> If I set START_ORACLE_DB_AGENT="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/oracle
> I get
>
>  - Starting Agent...ORA-28590: agent control utility: illegal
>   or badly formed command                     failed
>
> Looking up ORA-28590 ends up in a hint to correct the syntax of the failed
> agtctl but even if I run
>
> ora10g:/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/bin # ./agtctl --help
>
> AGTCTL: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Nov 9 15:42:57 2006
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
>
> I get:
>
> ORA-28591: agent control utility: unable to access parameter file
> ORA-28590: agent control utility: illegal or badly formed command
>
> Environmentvariable TNS_ADMIN was set for test purposes to
> $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin but didn't help:
>
> ora10g:/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/bin # echo $TNS_ADMIN
> /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/network/admin
> ora10g:/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/bin # ./agtctl
>
> AGTCTL: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Nov 9 16:03:34 2006
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
>
> AGTCTL> status
> ORA-28590: agent control utility: illegal or badly formed command
> AGTCTL>
>
> tnsnames.ora looks like this:
>
> ORA10G =
>  (DESCRIPTION =
>   (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = ora10g.qstest.torexretail)(PORT =
1521))
>   (CONNECT_DATA =
>     (SERVER = DEDICATED)
>     (SERVICE_NAME = ORA10G.qstest.torexretail)
>   )
>  )
>
> EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA =
>  (DESCRIPTION =
>   (ADDRESS_LIST =
>     (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1))
>   )
>   (CONNECT_DATA =
>     (SID = PLSExtProc)
>     (PRESENTATION = RO)
>   )
>  )
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
> BTW: I am new to the whole Oracle stuff. Do I need the agent?
>
> Kind regards,
> i.A. Sascha Wehnert
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>
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>
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>
>
>


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