Oct 24

OCM 11g Preparation – Deploy Enterprise Manager Grid Control agents

For OCM Preparation, in this topic you must be able to easily deploy an EM Grid Control agent. Although the term “deploy” let us think that we need to do it using the DB Console, I recommend also practicing the manual agent deployment. So, do the following scenarios: Install and deploy EM Agent in a new server …

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Oct 23

OCM 11g Preparation – Install and Patch Enterprise Manager Grid Control software

Oracle 11g EM installation is divided in WebLogic and OMS. I gave the link to both files here. There is no mysterious in installing the WebLogic. As it is a binary file, all you can do is call the user interface and go through the steps. Do not try Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6 with the Enterprise …

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Oct 22

OCM 11g Preparation – Create the database

Creating the database is one of the most elementary tasks a DBA must do. For OCM exam, you must create the DB easily in all the ways imaginable. Like Gavin wisely said, “It’s not about what you know – it’s about how fast you can do stuff as time is the essence in this exam. Working …

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Oct 22

OCM 11g Preparation – Prepare your Environment

As we have many situations to deal with in the topics, my recommendation is creating 6 VMs using Virtualbox: Oracle Single Instance Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 2 Oracle DG RAC Node 1 Oracle DG RAC Node 2 I won’t show here how to create an VirtualBox and install Oracle Linux …

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Oct 22

OCM 11g Preparation – Download the Exam Environment

The exam environment keep changing over the time and I believe that Oracle will soon update the Linux and Database release to the latest. As Oct/2014, the exam environment in official OCM website is the following: Exam Environment Oracle Linux Release 5.4 (32-bit) Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 (32-bit) Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid …

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