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Oracle 11g ASM disk discovery

During the installation of Oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 I stumbled upon a incorrect default setting for ASM disk discovery when using ASM lib. The discovery path is set to ‘/dev/raw/sd*’, which is incorrect because ASM lib creates the devices under ‘/dev/oracleasm/disks’. Another

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SCOM 2007 and RHEL6

Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 brings support for Red Hat 6. This update is release on August 4, 2011. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was release on November 10, 2010. So Microsoft managed to put out an update with support for RHEL6 9 months later.

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Install SCOM agent on Red Hat Linux

The steps below describe how to install the SCOM agent on Red Hat Linux 5 x64. We don’t like to enroll the agent by using the SCOM Discovery wizard, as you need to enter the super-user (root)credentials and we’re not sure where the application stores those credentials