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Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Plug-in

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Jul 30, 2014

So do we have a working linux 64 bit download yet? I see Error Ed was receiving. Can someone be more clear on this

 

Recompiling using the Oracle utility EMPDK on a 64bit Linux system worked. Better documentation would be greatly appreciate

 

What are the exact steps taking here?

 

Thanks

 

  • Karl_Brown_1687's avatar
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    Sep 02, 2014
    An plans to provide support on Windows - my client's OEM deployment is in a Windows 2008 x64? Will it just require a recompile - or are there significant architectural requirements that the OMS must be running on Linux/UNIX? Thanks
  • vdoshi_12527's avatar
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    Sep 04, 2014
    I have been able to make the plugin work for 64 bit linux however I also get Illegal Argument Exception error for certain metrics collection like Server Pool Members/Server Pools and a few others... I suspect incorrect arguments for these metrics so now I am looking into it...but the basic metrics especially Up/Down and tcp ping work fine.
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    Nov 04, 2014
    Hello - I have also begun looking into this and got to the same point as by756. Used empdk to recompile the plugin as 64-bit and skipped the "Test Connection" as that fails to get the target added, however only a few metric collections work. I imagine the reason for this is because this wasn't designed for recent F5, given there seems to be a custom jar that it heavily relies on for metric colleciton (oem-bigip-ltm-plugin.jar). How can I get the source for this? I'm not a java developer but editing the compiled classes I imagine isn't a simple/safe thing to do :)
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    Nov 04, 2014
    So I think I've gotten this working now, it was too simple which I think is what threw me. Basically I took the iControl.jar and all the other 3rd party libs from the latest iControl SDK and copied them into the \agent\scripts\emx\f5_bigip_ltm directory and re-compiled, then updated my plugin in EM12c and I can see everything now, it's beautiful. There were some bugs on the empdk side that I need to work out, for example if I name the plugin "f5.bigip.ltm" it gets a metadata fail and I'm using "f5.bigip.xsh1" instead which works, I copied the plugin.xml and plugin_registry.xml files from the sample plugin to get them working as the originals seem incompatible with 12.1.0.4.0 EDK. This also prevents me from incrementing the plugin version from 12.1.0.4.0 -> so when I do a redeploy I have to delete/re-create which certainly sucks. I'll get these figured out but not really on the "f5 side" of the equation.