A few days ago I downloaded the Cloud Control 12c binaries for Linux x86_64 from Oracle Technet. My friend Hervé Schweitzer, configured an OEL 5.7 VM for test purposes and I was quite eager to install this new software. I checked the OS settings, the required parameters, etc. - everything was fine. My OMS repository database (11.2.0.3) was ready. Unfortunately, as soon as I started the installer, it directly crashed.

My colleague Hervé Schweitzer reported a very interesting issue to me. It is about the usage of Grid Control 11g while monitoring the available space on an Oracle database – in our case a 10.2.0.3 target database. This post continues my last post about the free space management in a tablespace in relation to the recycle bin management.

This post describes some basic Oracle database management issues database administrators might be confronted with. It is about space management and differences observed while monitoring the available space from several point of views (tablespace/datafile) in Grid Control 11g. It also relates and explains an issue (ORA-01652) observed on pre 11.2 Oracle releases (targets) concerning the tablespace/datafile space management and the recycle bin.

Lors de mon activité de consultant, et suite à un bug qui n'affiche pas correctement le nombre de CPU (OMS 10.2.0.5, agent 10.2.0.5 et linux x86_64), je me suis intéressé à la manière dont Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM GC) récupérait les informations de mémoire et de CPU sur les différents hôtes surveillés par ce dernier.

After my last post - Stop looking for Oracle and MySQL documentation: use the dbi services firefox add-ons! - some of you asked me for firefox search add-ons for Oracle Fusion Middleware (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/index.htm). This add-on will provide you a fast a reliable way to find easily what you are looking for in the official Oracle Fusion and Grid Control documentation.

Are you fed up with supporthtml.oracle.com because the flash plugin is crashing or not working in your browser? You need to use the latest Java plugin in you firefox browser, for instance for a Java based VPN connection.

The Metalink note 949858.1 describes problems with 10.2.0.5 agents monitoring 11g databases - this might be the case if you have an "old" 10.2.0.5 Grid Infrastructure you did not want to upgrade yet. The 11g databases are generating errors in both the alert.log and the log.xml file. The agent 10.2.0.5 agent seems to have problem with this. This posting will show you what to do.