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Table of Contents

1. General
2. Fresh Installation of Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 2 and upgrading it to Release 3
3. Upgrading any existing 10.2.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installations to Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 3.
4. Upgrading an existing 10.1.0.4.0 or a higher 10.1.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installation to the latest Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 3

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1. General

1.1 Introduction
This document provides information about installing Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release for following cases:
- Doing a fresh Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 Grid Control installation and upgrading it to latest Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3.
- Upgrading any existing 10.2.0.X Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control installations to latest Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3.
- Upgrading an existing 10.1.0.4.0 or a higher 10.1.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control installation to the latest Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3.

1.2 Download Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3

1.2.1 Download the GridControl_10.2.0.3_<platform name>.zip patch set installation archive to any directory on the host which has the Oracle Management Service running on.

1.2.2 Enter the following command to unzip and extract the installation files:
$ unzip GridControl_10.2.0.3_<platform name>.zip
This will extract following files and directory:
     |- p3731593_102030_<platform name>.zip
     |- 3731596.zip
     |- 3822442.zip
     |- p4329444_10104_< platform name >.zip (not for Windows)
     |- p4329444_10105_< platform name >.zip (not for Windows)
     |- README.txt
     |- doc/
Refer to READEME.txt and the documents under "doc" directory for installing 10.2.0.3.0

p3731593_102030_<platform name>.zip is the zip that contains 10.2.0.3.0 patch set installation files.

3731596.zip is for patching agent by staging the patch set. Please look at the release notes section 4.3.2 method 2 under the "doc" directory on how to apply the agent 10.2.0.3.0 patch set

3822442.zip is for patching agent by distributing the full patch set. Please look at the release notes section 4.3.2 Method 1 under the "doc" directory on how to apply the agent 10.2.0.3.0 patch set

p4329444_10104_< platform name >.zip is zip that contains patch for bug 4329444 for "<platform name>" for RDBMS version 10.1.0.4.0

p4329444_10105_< platform name >.zip is zip that contains patch for bug 4329444 for "<platform name>" for RDBMS version 10.1.0.5.0

2. Fresh Installation of Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 2 and upgrading it to Release 3
In order to install Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 3, you must install either 10.2.0.1.0 or 10.2.0.2.0 Grid Control environment. This section describes steps to install Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 3 environment starting with 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows) install

2.1 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2

Installing 10g Grid Control Release 3 requires any previous releases of Grid Control, that is any 10.2.x.x.x installation, and upgrade to 10.2.0.3.0 release. If you do not have a previous release, but want to have a 10.2.0.3.0 Grid Control environment, then first install 10.2.0.1.0 Grid Control (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows), and then upgrade it to 10.2.0.3.0.
- Download Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 Grid Control from:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oem/index.html
Reference the directions provided to download and unzip the product, and install 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows).
- Run runInstaller (setup.exe for Windows) to start installation
- When asked for "install type" option, choose "Enterprise Manager using New Database" option
- Complete installation as per install guide

Important: For information about installing 10.2.0.1.0 and 10.2.0.2.0, refer to the installation guides available at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html

2.2 Apply required patches

In the case of Grid Control environment installed via "Enterprise Manager using New Database" option, repository database version is 10.1.0.4.0. Before upgrading to 10.2.0.3, apply the patch for bug 4329444 on the Database Home. In order to apply this patch for the Solaris platform:
- Unzip the file p4329444_10104_<platform name>.zip from the downloaded image described in section 1.2 using following command:
$ unzip p4329444_10104_<platform name>.zip
- Follow the instruction in 4329444/README.txt to apply the patch to repository database

For Windows platform bug 4329444 might be encountered in rare cases. Upgrade to GC10.2.0.3 can be proceeded without this patch. In case of issue, Windows patch will be available from Oracle in February 2007 patch release on metalink
For more detail on this and for other platforms, refer to the release note.

2.3 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3

- Enter the following command to unzip and extract the installation files from the downloaded image described in section 1.2:
$ unzip p3731593_102030_<platform name>.zip
This extracts the files to the "3731593" directory.
- Navigate to the 3731593/Disk1 subdirectory
$ cd 3731593/Disk1
- Set the ORACLE_HOME variable to the Oracle Management Service(OMS) oracle home.
- Execute the runInstaller (setup.exe for Windows)
$ ./runInstaller

The upgrades process then upgrades the Oracle Management Service (OMS), Oracle Management Repository and the Management Agent on the same host as the OMS to the latest Enterprise Manager 10g release 3 version.
Important: The same Patch Set can be used for patching OMS,Repository, and Management Agent. For more detail on installing the patch set, refer to the release note.

2.4 Optional: Upgrading Repository Database to 10.2.0.3
If you installed Grid Control 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows) via "Enterprise Manager using New Database" option, your repository database version is 10.1.0.4. In order to upgrade your repository database to 10.2.0.3, follow the steps below after upgrading your Grid Control environment to Enterprise Manager 10g release 3.
a. Upgrade the database to 10.2.0.1
b. Install 10.2.0.3 database patch set

3. Upgrading any existing 10.2.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installations to Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 3.

Follow the steps below to upgrade an existing 10.2.0.1.0 or 10.2.0.2.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installation:

3.1 Roll-back patch 5191377 if it has been applied to the Oracle Management Service (OMS)
- To check if this patch had been applied to the Oracle Management Service (OMS)
a) Set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to your OMS home
b) Change directory to $<OMS_HOME>/Opatch
$ cd <OMS_HOME>/OPatch
c) Execute following command:
$./opatch lsinv
d) Check the output to see if patch for this bug is applied.

- Rollback the one-off patch 5191377
a) Set your current directory to the directory where the patch is located
$ cd 5191377
b) Run the following command:
$ opatch rollback -id 5191377
- Login as Repository Owner and execute the following command, against SQL prompt
SQL>drop index mgmt_current_violation_idx_05;

3.2 Apply patches if required
If Grid Control repository database is DB version 10.1.0.4.0 or 10.1.0.5.0, before upgrading to EM 10203, apply the patch for bug 4329444 on the Database Home. In order to apply this patch for the Solaris platform:
In order to apply this patch for the Solaris platform:
- Copy the p4329444_<version>_<platform name>.zip file from the DVD to any directory on the host which has the repository database running on.
- Unzip the file using following command:
$ unzip p4329444_<version>_<platform name>.zip
- Follow the instruction in 4329444/README.txt to apply the patch

For Windows platform bug 4329444 might be encountered in rare cases. Upgrade to GC10.2.0.3 can be proceeded without this patch. In case of issue, Windows patch will be available from Oracle in February 2007 patch release on metalink

For more detail on this and for other platforms, refer to the release note.

3.3 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3
Follow step 2.3 above.

4. Upgrading an existing 10.1.0.4.0 or a higher 10.1.0.X.0 Enterprise Manager Grid Control installation to the latest Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control Release 3

Follow the steps below:

4.1 Upgrade the existing 10.1.0.4.0 or higher 10.1.0.x.0 installation to Enterprise Manager Grid Control version 10.2.0.1.0 (10.2.0.2.0 for Windows)

To accomplish this, refer to chapter "Upgrading Enterprise Manager Grid Control" of the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation and Basic Configuration guide available at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html

4.2 Apply patches if required

Follow step 3.2 above.

4.3 3 Install Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3
Follow step 2.3 above.