Enterprise Manager - what OS?

[nontrad]

I am trying to find out how I can get Oracle Enterprise Manager to be fully functional on our system. Oracle Management Server does not work at all - just DBA Studio. DBA Studio has limited functionality - monitoring and user/password functions only.

Right now, I have OEM/ DBA Studio on a W98 OS machine. The Oracle DB is actually on a Sun Sparc Solaris machine in the network.

We may be able to install some of the other Windows OS's on this machine - NT 4.0, 2000, XP. I thought I read that OEM is fully functional under NT but someone in our spaces said they originally tried to install it under that OS and our version of NT does not support OEM.

Does anyone have any idea which OS's can be used to implement OEM and if there are any installation difficulties/patches that would be necessary to fully install OEM?

Thanks,

E.

 

[lfoata]

OEM works both on an NT server or Sun Solaris server.
Ideally, it should not be installed on a database server, but on a different server.
I agree it is not easy to install and configure, but it is worth the difficulties.
You wil have to install patches, download them from metalink depending on which version of OEM you have.
You have three parts in install of OEM :
the repository which resides in a database
the server itself
the client.

One thing to watch, is everytime you give access to oem to a user, It generates a bunch of tables that take space (10Megs per user).

The install and configuration varies with the version of OEM and the platform.
I know the install and config guides have a few hundred pages, but you will have to go through both before you can do a successfull install.