The problem was solved. It seems that it was either the Dell hardware monitoring software or Red Hat's own snmpd which was screwing up the Agent installation. Shutting those services, rebooting the machine and doing a clean install got me a working server :)
Cheers, Peter On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 19:01, Peter Peltonen wrote: > > I've succeeded in installing Oracle 9iR2 on RH73 on a test server but > with the production server the installation fails. Or actually only the > last part: Running Agent Configuration Assistant. > > Do I need the assistant for something vital? I'm only going to run a > single db. > > Anyway, here's the details about the error I'm encountering. If someone > has an idea what might be wrong, let me know? > > --<snip>-- > Command which is being spawned is /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/JRE/bin/jre > -classpath > >/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/JRE/lib/rt.jar:/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/jlib/srvm.jar:/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/agent/agentca.jar > > oracle.agent.AgentCA /orahome /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0 /nodeinfo > NO_VALUE > Configuration tool Agent Configuration Assistant was canceled > Result code for launching of configuration tool is -1 > --</snip>-- > > I read some agent related documentation: > > >http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/em.920/a96676/toc.htm > > I checked if the agent was running on the test server and if not, would > it start: > > --<snip>-- > [root@delfoi log]# agentctl status > > DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 16:15:09 > > Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Could not contact agent. It may not be running. > [root@delfoi log]# agentctl start > > DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 16:15:18 > > Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Starting Oracle Intelligent Agent...... > Agent started > --/snip>-- > > Tried the same on our production server: > > --<snip>-- > [root@chfiv103 root]# agentctl status > > DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 17:03:21 > > Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Could not contact agent. It may not be running. > [root@chfiv103 root]# agentctl start > > DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 17:03:29 > > Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Starting Oracle Intelligent Agent...\nAgent startup failed. Check > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/dbsnmp.nohup for details > --</snip>-- > > And the logs say: > > --</snip>-- > [root@chfiv103 root]# more > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/dbsnmp.nohup > ------------------------ Thu Aug 1 17:03:29 EEST 2002 > Certain conflicts were resolved during discovery > Please consult /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/nmiconf.log for > details > Failed while initializing SNMP > Error initializing subsystems > Agent exited at Thu Aug 1 17:03:30 EEST 2002 with return value 55 > Could not start agent. Initialization failure > > [root@chfiv103 root]# more > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/nmiconf.log > DBSNMP for Linux 2.4.18-5: release 9.2.0.0.0 - Production on 01-AUG-02 > 17:03:29 > Discovering services on chfiv103 configured on host addresses {chfiv103 > 80.81.172.177} > Using oratab file /etc/oratab > Warning : Error while sourcing third party discovery file > emddiscover.tcl > : can't read "tabfile": no such variable > --</snip>-- > > Couldn't find any strangeness in the config files either: > > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/snmp_ro.ora > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/snmp_rw.ora > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/listener.ora > /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/tnsnames.ora > > I'm a bit loss here... > > Regards, > Peter > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Peter Peltonen System Administrator Fivetec Solutions Oy Melkonkatu 28 E 00210 Helsinki GSM. +358-40 720 6535 Tel. +358-9-6824 7666 Fax. +358-9-6824 7664 http://www.fivetec.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
