Re: Oracle 10G: Grid Control Install Problems. 64 Bit Windows

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:15:21 -0700
Message-ID: <1089335737.507582@yasure>

SonO wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1089260183.508875_at_yasure>...
>

>>Mr. Chow Wing Siu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Louis Frolio <froliol_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Greetings All, my server is windows 2003 standard edition 64 bit.  I
>>>>sucessfully installed 10g 32 bit.  When I try to build out a database
>>>>and OEM (grid control) it never inititates, it just dies.  When I get
>>>>to the last screen before I have to click the "FINISH" button the DB
>>>>configuration tool window just closes and nothing gets done?  Has
>>>>anyone had this issue?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>Louis
>>>
>>>------------------------
>>>
>>>I have the same problem (Grid Control) on 32 bit windows.
>>>The option is dimmed and the management serivce and agent 
>>>is not found.  I think that the OEM (grid contol) is not
>>>released yet for windows in the following url.
>>>
>>>http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oem/index.html
>>>
>>>Please give ideas.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Johnson Chow
>>
>>My guess would be because neither of you has installed grid control.
>>
>>First grid control is on a separate CD set
>>Second it does not come with Standard Edition
>>
>>Daniel Morgan

>
>
> sounds like a problem I ran into numerous times.
> But my probs had nothing to do with versions and/or SE/EE..
> Rather the buggy-ness of the DBCA :)
> I tried a lot fo things, and this finally worked for me;
> Within DBCA, you have to define directories for the pfile, control
> files, etc.etc.etc..
> The DBCA uses variables for these, e.g. {ORACLE_HOME}.
> When I hard-coded those paths (so C:\Oracle\ora920\bin instead of
> {ORACLE_HOME}\bin) everywhere I could find them, everything went well.
> I also do not use the option to "create the database".
> Just let the DBCA write the scripts to a certain location (e.g.
> C:\Oracle\admin\<SID>\create\, where <SID> is the name of your
> database), this way you can check them for errors, or rerun them
> easier then rerunning DBCA.
>
> Hope my rant makes sense to you, and good luck!

It certainly does for me. To me the historically greatest weakness of Oracle Corp. is in installation. For example I can conclusively prove that no-one inside of Oracle tested the RAC installation for 9.2.0.4 with RedHat Linux on a clean box. Or that if they did they were dead drunk at the time. Had anyone actually done it they would have realized it is impossible without manual tweaks.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 20:15:21 CDT