Andreas' Adventures

I encountered another strange thing in the Grid Control. The intention was to secure the communication between the agents on AIX and the OMS. However on one machine this was working, while the other two machines where I installed the agent succeeded in putting the agent in secure mode but did never upload their data. Using emctl status agent -secure I found out that they thought that they were not in secure mode. The solution was pretty simple (and another proof that Oracle has to find some unique way to resolve network addresses).. In my hostfile the hosts that did not work were described as 10.1.2.3 hostname hostname.domain.com I changed this to be 10.1.2.3 hostname.domain.com hostname resecured everything (OMS and agents) and it then it worked.

When extracting a cpio file with Oracle software from OTN on AIX you might encounter the following problem: oracle@mymachine-app:/install/oracle/MRCA>cpio -idmv cpio: 0511-903 Out of phase! cpio attempting to continue... cpio: 0511-904 skipping 642010 bytes to get back in phase! One or more files lost and the previous file is possibly corrupt! Segmentation fault The solution is to use the option -idcmv oracle@mymachine-app:/install/oracle/MRCA>cpio -idcmv c Reads and writes header information in ASCII character form. If a cpio archive was created using the c flag, it must be extracted with c flag.