Oracle OEM 10g agent installation into Cluster nodes

There is not much resource available on the net that mentioned about the installation of Oracle 10g agent for grid control into a Cold Failover cluster.
CFC is generally a OS control cluster.

I would discuss about the setup that I have done.

Basically, this was an installation into a Solaris Sparc OS 9 two node using VCS cluster. Oracle Grid control version 10.2.0.5. Oracle Database Enterprise 10.2.0.3.

I installed through GUI using runInstaller.

I have tried about almost 10 times all in all until the last one manage to get it up monitored by OMS.

The trick is...

1. export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=logical-hostname

2. cd /source
where source is the installation files for oracle 10g agent 10.2.0.5

3.
Instead of just ./runInstaller

use this

./runInstaller -invPtrLoc /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/agent10g/ ORACLE_HOSTNAME=

This will enable the installation of 10g agent to be cluster-aware.

After installation, modify $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/config/emd.properties file
Set
AgentListenOnAllNICs=TRUE
to
AgentListenOnAllNICs=FALSE

Oracle 10g 10.2.0.5 Grid Control

To install Oracle 10g Grid Control 10.2.0.5, the latest at this point of writing, one has to install the base version 10.2.0.1 and upgrade to 10.2.0.5 later.

I have tried using GUI tool ./runInstaller

The sequence is to install base, this will create a OMS, repository, and agent

Next, upgrade to 10.2.0.5 for the base (this take abt 2 hours). Then upgrade agent.

A tip is to turn off archive logs while performing installation.