Discovering and Promoting Oracle Homes

When you deploy an Oracle software component outside of the deployment procedures provided by Enterprise Manager, the Oracle home is not automatically discovered and promoted as targets. You will have to manually discover and promote the Oracle home target.

To discover and promote an Oracle home target, follow these steps:

  1. From the Enterprise menu, select Job, and then select Activity.
  2. On the Job Activity page, from the drop-down list in the table, select Discover Promote Oracle Home Target.


    Job Activity page

    Click Go.

  3. On the 'Create Discover Promote Oracle Home Target' Job page, in the General tab, specify the name of the discovery.

    For example: OHDiscovery

    You can optionally add a description for the discovery.


    Create Discover Promote Oracle Home Target Job page

    Click Add.

  4. In the Search and Select: Target dialog box, select Target Type as Host, and then select all the host targets listed by clicking Select All.

    Click Select.


    Oracle Home Target Search and Select dialog box

  5. On the'Create Discover Promote Oracle Home Target' Job page, the host targets that you selected are displayed in the table.

    Individual target select page

  6. Select the Parameters tab, and then do one of the following:

    • To discover a single Oracle Home, specify the path to the home, and then select Oracle Home as the manage entity.


      Discovering a single Oracle Home

    • To discover all Homes in an inventory, specify the path to the inventory, and then select Inventory as the manage entity.


      Discovering all Homes in an inventory

    • To discover all Homes in a Middleware Home, specify the path to the Middleware Home and select Middleware Home as the manage entity.


      Discovering all homes in a MW home

  7. To save the job for later, click Save to Library. To submit it, click Submit. When the discovery is successful, a confirmation is displayed on the Job Activity page.

Note:

If you submit the discovery job without specifying a path, a discovery of the whole host will be performed. In order for a Home to be discoverable by the Management Agent, it needs to be registered in an inventory that the Management Agent recognizes. The default inventory is the central inventory, which in Unix systems is found in /etc/oraInst.loc. Any Home registered here will automatically be discovered.

If there are other inventories in the host, they need to be added to the inventory list of the Management Agent. A line must be added to $EMSTATE/sysman/config/OUIinventories.add.

If the inventory is not found here, the Management Agent will not know of its existence, and hence any Home registered there will not be discovered.