Chapter 2. Installing Enterprise Manager Grid Control

We introduced Rob, the Middleware administrator, at the beginning of the book. After sleepless nights and many escalations from the user community, Rob felt the heat. He convinced his management and fellow administrators to implement proactive monitoring within their IT organization. He decided to do away with his pride and an all scripts approach. The majority of Rob's applications ran on Oracle Fusion Middleware and therefore, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control was the obvious choice.

In the last chapter, we introduced the architecture of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control. In this chapter, we will help you get started with the installation process. The actual installation steps are very well documented in the Enterprise Manual and we will not bore you to death by duplicating all those steps in this chapter. Our primary goal is to help you get started with the installation of Enterprise Manager Grid Control with the simplest configuration that you can use, in conjunction with this book.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following:

Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! So let us get started with the installation of Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 (10.2.0.5).