Does anyone know WHY when restarting Oracle's management agent through OEM,
the appropriate ".*profile" is not sourced, corresponding to which account
you run the agent as? That's a rather confusing sentence so restating with
examples:
If I restart the management agent in OEM and we run the agent under the OS
account "oracle", I'd expect at some point "~oracle/.bash_profile" to be
sourced within the agent's environment. Yet I know this doesn't happen
because we have a couple of important env variables set in
~oracle/.bash_profile and when checking for these using something like "cat
/proc/<AGENT'S PID>/environ | xargs -n 1 -0" I don't see these variables.
I've checked this under RHEL and Oracle 11g / 12c. I first noticed the
issue when applying the latest agent PSU to a group of agents via an OEM
plan, then validated the same situation happens if, under the agent's home
page, I restart it in OEM. Normally all management agent restarts are
performed in a standard script we have which runs through stop, start,
clearstate, upload, status for the given agent, among other things.
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Dave
