Oracle 10g Free Training : Starting and Stopping the Agent

Oracle 10g Free Training : Starting and Stopping the Agent : This tutorials explains Starting and Stopping the agent through Enterprise Manager command-line utility and Enterprise Manager.

Starting and Stopping the Oracle Management agent

When you install the Oracle Management Agent on a Windows system, the installation procedure creates three new services in the Services control panel.

Oracle Management Agent: Use this Service to start and stop the Application Server Control for the Oracle Application Server instance that was installed and configured to deploy the Management Service J2EE application.

OracleAgent For example: OracleOraHome1Agent

Oracle SNMP Peer Encapsulator: Use this service only if you are using the advanced features of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

OracleSNMPPeerEncapsulator
For example: OracleOraHome1PeerEncapsulator

Oracle Peer SNMP Master Agent : Use this service only if you are using the advanced features of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

OracleSNMPPeerMasterAgent
For example: OracleOraHome1PeerMasterAgent

Figure 1. Agent Services window

Figure 2. Agent Services Window

You can directly start or stop these services through services window in windows operating system or use the EM command line utility.

Starting and Stopping the agent through Enterprise Manager command-line utility

Agent Status

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Execute emctl status agent command to get the status of the agent as shown in figure below

Figure 3. Agent Status Window

Starting the Agent

You can start the Management Agent using the Services control panel.

Figure 4. Agent Start Window

Stopping the Agent

Execute emctl stop agent command to stop the agent as shown in figure below.

Figure 5. Stopping Agent Window

Figure 6. Agent Stopped Window