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DBMS_SCHEDULER jobs not running?

I came across this posting on OTN which lists down things to check in case your scheduler job is not . This is quite [Read More]

‘Metric execution timed out’ error reported by Grid

We use 10.2 Enterprise Manager Grid control  to monitor our oracle database environments . Apart from the normal [Read More]

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER. Article [Read More]

11gR2 Silent Install errors with [SEVERE] – Invalid My Oracle Support credentials

While performing  11gR2 RAC Database Software installation with response file (silent mode), I got this error. - [Read More]

opmnctl start fails when ORA_NLS10 parameter is set

I got into this issue , where in while starting Grid Control components, opmnctl command failed with following errors [Read More]

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‘Metric execution timed out’ error reported by Grid

13 Jun, 2010 | Author: Amit | No Comments »

We use 10.2 Enterprise Manager Grid control  to monitor our oracle database environments . Apart from the normal metrics provided by oracle we also use host based and sql user defined metrics which allows you to monitor almost anything . Coming back to the main issue, [Read More]

opmnctl start fails when ORA_NLS10 parameter is set

04 Apr, 2010 | Author: Amit | 1 Comment »

I got into this issue , where in while starting Grid Control components, opmnctl command failed with following errors ./opmnctl start globalInitNLS: NLS boot file not found or invalid -- default linked-in boot block used XML parser init: error 201. globalInitNLS: NLS boot [Read More]

Grid Control Fails to Start

13 Apr, 2009 | Author: Saurabh Sood | 2 Comments »

The link for Grid Control was not Working and it failed to show the login page. In this situation  checked the following things: 1. The repository database was up and running 2. The listener was up. 3. OMS server was down. Tried to stratup the OMS server using opmnctl [Read More]

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