Preface

This guide is your primary source of pre-installation requirements and certifications, installation options and strategy, and post-installation configuration information for Oracle Enterprise Manager.

This preface contains the following topics:

Intended Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Structure
Related Documents
Conventions

Intended Audience

This guide is written for Oracle and system administrators who want to install and configure Oracle Enterprise Manager. You should already be familiar with Oracle and the administrative tasks you want to perform.

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

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Structure

This guide contains four chapters and three appendixes.

Chapter 1, " Pre-Installation Considerations "

This chapter contains hardware and software requirements, operating system, browser, and components certifications.

Chapter 2, " Installing Enterprise Manager"

This chapter contains descriptions of the different deployment options.

Chapter 3, " Post-Installation Configuration Tasks"

This chapter identifies the configuration tasks required after installation is complete.

Chapter 4, " Getting Started with Enterprise Manager"

This chapter describes the standard out-of-box configuration upon installation and provides information on starting Grid Control and controlling the Management Agent and Management Service.

Appendix A, " Patches and Packages"

This appendix contains the additional software requirements of certified operating systems, such as patches and packages, and includes required patches for the Management Repository.

Appendix B, " Management Repository Database Settings"

This appendix contains the recommended initialization parameter values for your Management Repository database, as well as other recommended settings.

Appendix C, " Using the Downloadable Management Agent"

This appendix contains instructions on installing multiple Management Agents using the agentDownload script.

Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

Conventions in Text
Conventions in Code Examples

Conventions in Text

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Convention Meaning Example

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Convention	Meaning	Example
Bold	Bold typeface indicates an element in the user interface.	Click Help for more information.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.	Oracle Database Concepts Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.
`lowercase monospace (fixed-width font)`	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	Enter `sqlplus` to open SQL*Plus. The password is specified in the `orapwd` file. Back up the datafiles and control files in the `/disk1/oracle/dbs` directory. The `department_id`, `department_name`, and `location_id` columns are in the `hr.departments` table. Set the `QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED` initialization parameter to `true.` Connect as `oe` user. The `JRepUtil` class implements these methods.

Italics

Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.

Oracle Database Concepts

Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.

lowercase monospace (fixed-width font)

Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values.

Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.

Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus.

The password is specified in the orapwd file.

Back up the datafiles and control files in the /disk1/oracle/dbs directory.

The department_id, department_name, and location_id columns are in the hr.departments table.

Set the QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED initialization parameter to true.

Connect as oe user.

The JRepUtil class implements these methods.

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
< >	Angle brackets in command syntax denote an item for which you can substitute a real value. Do not enter the angle brackets.	`<host>:<port>:<oracle_sid>`
`Italics`	Italicized text indicates placeholders or variables for which you must supply particular values.	`CONNECT SYSTEM/``system_password` `DB_NAME =` `database_name`