How to: Manual Install of the Oracle dbConsole
Here is how to manually install an Oracle database server’s dbConsole service on Windows. You will need to run %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\emca.bat.
First you have to set a couple of system environment variables
c:\>set ORACLE_HOME=c:\path\to\oracle\home
c:\>set ORACLE_SID=DB_SID
Next run the emca.bat file with the parameters -config dbcontrol db
c:\>emca.bat -config dbcontrol db
Next you will be asked a few configuration setting
STARTED EMCA at Oct 12, 2009 3:34:20 PM
EM Configuration Assistant, Version 10.2.0.1.0 Production
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Enter the following information:
Database SID: DB_SID
Listener port number: 1521
Password for SYS user:
Password for DBSNMP user: Password for SYSMAN user: Password for SYSMAN user: Email address for notifications (optional):email@yourserver.com
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server for notifications (optional):mail.yourserver.com
It will then ask you to verify the setting that you just entered
You have specified the following settings
Database ORACLE_HOME ................ C:\path\to\oracle\home
Database hostname ................ yourdbserver.com
Listener port number ................ 1521
Database SID ................ DB_SID
Email address for notifications ............... email@yourserver.com
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server for notifications ...............mail.yourserver.com
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Do you wish to continue? [yes(Y)/no(N)]: yes
Once you enter yes it will then display a bunch of log information. In this log will be the path to your Enterprise Management Console. ex. http://:1158/em
Enter the url in your browser and login. You are now all set. This will create the OracleDBConsole server and set it to start automatically.
A few notes. I didn’t know the password for my dbsnmp user account. So I attempted to login and Oracle told me that the account was locked. I then entered the following commands to unlock the account and to change the password.
c:\>sqlplus /nolog
sqlplus>conn sys as sysdba
Enter Password: sqlplus> ALTER USER dbsnmp ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
Account Unlocked
sqlplus>ALTER USER dbsnmp identified by ;
Password Changed.
Thats it.
