Relocating base directory Enterprise Manager's central agent ora agent dir struct

Relocating base directory Enterprise Manager’s central agent

February 1, 2018 Enterprise Manager, Platform Technology 3 Comments

After the upgrade of the 12c central agent to 13c, I noticed the new central agent’s home located under the wrong – old agent – directory: /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0. Must have done something wrong. How to correct this? Want to move the directory to /u01/app/oracle/agent13c/. A very short blog to describe the two steps.

It’s a bit hidden away in the documentation (in the appendixes) but there’s a special procedure to do this, and it worked like a charm for me.

So, /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0  should be /u01/app/oracle/agent13c/agent_13.2.0.0.0

Step 1:  Create a list of plugins by using this command:

/u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0/perl/bin/perl      /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0/sysman/install/create_plugin_list.pl -instancehome /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_inst/

A file /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/plugins.txt is created, used by the next command.

 

Step 2: Creating a new base directory for agent13c – where I didn’t need to stop the agent by the way, that’s all included in the script:

/u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0/perl/bin/perl /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0/sysman/install/AgentMigrate.pl -instanceHome /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_inst -newAgentBaseDir /u01/app/oracle/agent13c

Post actions to be done:

  • Run root.sh from /u01/app/oracle/agent13c/agent_13.2.0.0.0/root.sh manually
  • Deinstall (rm -R) agent home /u01/app/oracle/agent12c/agent_13.2.0.0.0 manually

And that’s it! Sometimes life is easy.

Regardz..

 

Resources:

Moving the central agent base directory : https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMUPG/GUID-C807B2F8-DA3A-4934-8C2E-7DFB63E9F65D.htm#EMUPG377

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Job Oprel

Until February 2019, Job worked as a solution architect at AMIS Services with a special interest in Oracle licensing, High Availability architectures and managing complex (Oracle) environments, which includes Cloud environments. With a background as Oracle developer, DBA, team-manager and license-consultant he is able to utilize the Oracle technologies to a cost-efficient architecture for his customers. He is regularly involved in consultancy regarding: - Unlimited License Agreements (ULA). - License compliancy-checks and advice regarding optimizing the environment. - Second opinions. - Education / presentations about licensing and managing your infrastructure in the most cost-efficient manner. Twitter: @jobaclenl

3 Comments

  1. Sulmon Muneer March 24, 2019

    Hi… How do I pass the new home for 13c agent as a parameter while upgrading?

  2. Kenya March 22, 2018

    Hello, I have tried to run this after my 13.2 agent upgrade and I am receiving an error.
    Moving of /usr/local/oracle/product/12105/agent/agent_13.2.0.0.0/sbin failed
    I did the same thing you did above and I am not sure why it is not working. Would you happen to know what I could be doing wrong? Thank you!

    • Job Oprel March 26, 2018

      Without some more information it’s hard to figure out what could be wrong. It’s your central agent, not an agent on a target? And I think the /sbin don’t belong in the path you described. Shouldn’t it be /usr/local/oracle/product/12105/agent/agent_13.2.0.0.0 instead of /usr/local/oracle/product/12105/agent/agent_13.2.0.0.0/sbin ?
      Regardz