It looks like I made the classic error of assuming that what was true for my version was generically true. The relevant note for us is Note:311072.1
"Note #1: for Windows the downloadable Agent is not available in 10.1.0.3.0."
apologies to all.
From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx]
We have ran several automated agent installation on windows with no problems at all - using the agentDownload vb-script supplied by oracle. Works like a charm, just the way it does on *nix
Stefan
On 8/24/06, Polarski, Bernard <Bernard.Polarski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have tried the push agent on Windows but with all the NT domain, network password and others security stuff implemented by M$, life is very very hard. > Up to now, on windows, I always met a surprise after another and can only report a full blatant ultimate total absolute failure to push anything that my own misery. > > On Linux it works out of the box as long as the target is Unix box. > > ________________________________
> Sent: Thursday, 24 August, 2006 9:53 AM > To: GJohnson@xxxxxxx > Cc: yoursraju007@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Centralized EM for 10g R2 Databases > > > > > unless you are on windows .... > > You can also use an agent mounted on an nfs drive shared amongst servers - though I've only seen that described in the docs and I have my doubts. > > Niall > > > On 8/24/06, Johnson, George <GJohnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Don't forget you have the mass-deployment agent whereby you can automatically "draw" a copy of the agent software from one central source, install and configure by simply running a single script on each target server. I recently did 25 Solaris boxes from scratch, in about 2 hours. > > > > --- > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info >
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