Peoplesoft plugin for OEM - part 2

The upgrade of OEM 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.5 on Linux x64 has not been difficult, no issue, nothing special to set.

To be upgraded, the OMS needs to be down more than 4 minutes before running the Installer, otherwise, you get the following error :

Enjoy,

Nicolas.

Metalink3 becomes My Oracle Support

Last year, the GSC - Global Support Customer - moved to Metalink3.

That was only a temporary situation to move all Peoplesoft's customers (and some others products) into an Oracle support website. This week-end, it is going more and more Oracle, the Metalnk3 will move to the My Oracle Support.

From the email we all received :
Oracle Global Customer Support is pleased to announce the launch of Oracle’s new online support portal, My Oracle Support. This coming weekend, August 28-30, 2009, Oracle will upgrade Oracle MetaLink 3 and officially change the name to "My Oracle Support." This transition will migrate existing OracleMetaLink 3 customers and partners (those using PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and Hyperion products) to My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com.

I'm still not convinced by this change, expecially the requirement to use MOS, FlashPlayer need to be installed... and some other inconvenients of the MOS usage itself (colors - too many -, pagelets - not needed -, search features - not working -...). All we want is a working and simple support website, not a "geek" or "movie" support website with all the latest Internet technologies, just a simple one to use, I'm not saying Metalink(1|2|3) was perfect, but at least it was simple. After all, we are looking for support (the two mains activities from there are Metalink note reading and SR creation), not for bying or to be convinced to use Internet technologies.

There is a thread into OTN forums, Metalink Classic - To Be Continued but it looks there is no way to avoid the change.

I'm sure, it will be discussed again and again over the Oracle community.

Enjoy,

Peoplesoft plugin for OEM - part 1

In order to install OEM 10.2.0.5, we need to install OEM 10.2.0.3 as explain in the readme

So, let's install first OEM 10.2.0.3.

My OS is OEL 5.3 64-bits.

[root@opcenter cd1]# uname -a
Linux opcenter.phoenix-nga 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 08:45:05 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@opcenter cd1]#

However, you could hit the following error during the Enterprise Management installation, when starting the Apache server :

oracle@opcenter sysman]$ more /appl/oracle/oms10g/opmn/logs/HTTP_Server~1

09/08/23 18:37:44 Start process
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/appl/oracle/oms10g/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl start: execing httpd
/appl/oracle/oms10g/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That's because the installed application is a 32-bits application, it needs the 32-bits libraries which does not exists natively on a 64-bits plateform.
It requires to install manually one more package, gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.i386.rpm (which add the library /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2), and create a symbolic link to this new library :

[root@opcenter cd1]# rpm -Uvh gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.i386.rpm
warning: gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e5e0159
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:gdbm                   ########################################### [100%]
[root@opcenter cd1]# ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

Apart from that, it is taking time, but no issue to install OEM 10.2.0.3 on OEL5.3 64-bits.
The next step is the upgrade to OEM 10.2.0.5, then the real target is the installation of the Peoplesoft plugin for OEM...

Enjoy,

Nicolas.