There are a couple of ways to deinstall an OEM agent: from OEM Console, in silent mode, by running runInstaller, by running AgentDeinstall.pl, etc.
This post shows different kind of ways available for uninstalling an Oracle 12c EM agent.
Before starting to uninstall an agent, stop OEM agent first.
$ emctl stop agent
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Java paramemetes like ” -Xmx” and “-XX:MaxPermSize” might cause OEM agent up/down periodically.
The agent fails to start, or keeps restarting itself, or becomes unresponsive and the following messages are seen in logs.
$AGENT_INST/bin/emctl start agent reports following error :
...... ...... ...... Starting agent ......................................... Consult emctl.log and emagent.nohup in: /db/oracle/product/agent12c/12.1.0.4/agent_inst/sysman/log
$AGENT_INST/sysman/log/emagent.nohup reports following error :
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2016-03-06 20:03:08,691 [1:main] WARN - Missing filename for log handler 'opsscfg
Agent is going down due to an OutOfMemoryError
----- Sun Mar 6 20:03:28 2016::23451::Checking status of EMAgent : 30249 -----
----- Sun Mar 6 20:03:28 2016::23451::EMAgent exited at Sun Mar 6 20:03:28 2016 with return value 57. -----
----- Sun Mar 6 20:03:28 2016::23451::EMAgent will be restarted because of an Out of Memory Exception.
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$AGENT_INST/sysman/log/gcagent.log reports following error :
...... ...... 2016-03-06 20:02:52,549 [1:main] FATAL - Fatal error: Target Interaction Manager failed at Startup java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space ...... ...... ...... 2016-03-06 20:02:52,552 [1:main] ERROR - agent main threw an error java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
$GENT_INST/bin/emctl start agent reports following error :
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 4
Copyright (c) 1996, 2014 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Starting agent ............................................failed.
Fatal agent error: Target Interaction Manager failed at Startup
Fatal agent error: Target Interaction Manager failed at Startup
Fatal agent error: Target Interaction Manager failed at Startup
EMAgent is Thrashing. Exiting watchdog
$AGENT_INST/sysman/log/emagent.nohup reports following error :
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2016-03-06 20:03:08,691 [1:main] WARN - Missing filename for log handler 'opsscfg
Agent is going down due to an OutOfMemoryError
$AGENT_INST/sysman/log/gcagent.log reports following error :
2016-03-06 20:02:52,549[1:3305B9] INFO - Invoking STARTUP_P1 (1) on Target Interaction Manager
2016-03-06 20:02:52,549[1:main] FATAL - Fatal error: Target Interaction Manager failed at Startup
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2882)
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:100)
OR
$AGENT_INST/sysman/log/gcagent.log reports following errors:
...... ...... ...... java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space ...... ...... ...... java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space 2016-03-06 20:02:52,660 [64:GC.Executor.8 (oracle_camm_manager:ADPManager_EMGC_ADPMANAGER2:Response) (oracle_camm_manager:ADPManager_EMGC_ADPMANAGER2:Response:Response)] ERROR - oracle_camm_manager:ADPManager_EMGC_ADPMANAGER2:Response:Response java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
1. Stop the agent first.
$ $AGENT_INST/bin/emctl stop agent
If agent does not shutdown gracefully, then kill all agent background processes by first grepping for agent perl and java processes only.
$ps -eaf | grep java | grep '/db/oracle/product/agent12c/12.1.0.4/agent_inst' $ps -eaf | grep perl $kill -9 <Process id>
2. Take backup and edit $AGENT_INST/sysman/config/emd.properties file.
Note : Tune -Xmx and -XX:MaxPermSize parameters , in the below example heap value is increased to 512M from 128M .
The default current value:
agentJavaDefines=-Xmx128M -XX:MaxPermSize=96M
The new value:
agentJavaDefines=-Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
3. Restart agent successfully.
$ $AGENT_INST/bin/emctl start agent Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 4 Copyright (c) 1996, 2014 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Starting agent ............................................... started. $AGENT_INST/bin/emctl status agent Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 4 Copyright (c) 1996, 2014 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------- Agent Version : 12.1.0.4.0 OMS Version : 12.1.0.4.0 Protocol Version : 12.1.0.1.0 Agent Home : /db/oracle/product/agent12c/12.1.0.4/agent_inst Agent Log Directory : /db/oracle/product/agent12c/12.1.0.4/agent_inst/sysman/log Agent Binaries : /db/oracle/product/agent12c/12.1.0.4/core/12.1.0.4.0 Agent Process ID : 6532 Parent Process ID : 6208 ...... ...... ...... Operating System : Linux version 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64 (amd64) Last Reload : (none) Last successful upload : 2016-03-06 20:19:15 Last attempted upload : 2016-03-06 20:19:15 Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 0.03 Number of XML files pending upload : 0 Size of XML files pending upload(MB) : 0 Available disk space on upload filesystem : 41.27% Collection Status : Collections enabled Heartbeat Status : Ok Last attempted heartbeat to OMS : 2016-03-06 20:19:14 Last successful heartbeat to OMS : 2016-03-06 20:19:14 Next scheduled heartbeat to OMS : 2016-03-06 20:20:14 --------------------------------------------------------------- Agent is Running and Ready
To monitor targets, monitoring Credentials should be set up correctly.
OID/OVD metrics are unavailable on OEM 12c Cloud Control. But other targets metrics are shown fine . The incident is created by OID/OVD instance with message:
The following exception has occurred:
Can’t resolve a non-optional query descriptor property [password] (password)
The “Monitoring Credentials” is not configured or invalid. Set the Monitoring Credentials in EM Cloud Control, via Setup > Security > Monitoring Credentials:
1) Select “Oracle Internet Directory”
2) Click “Manage Monitoring Credential”
3) Select “LDAP Credentials” for the respective OID
4) Click “Set Credential”
5) Enter the password/confirm password.
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