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Automatically purging OMS log and trace files in EM12c

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Garth

Enterprise Manager Oracle Management Server (OMS) installations generate huge amounts of log and trace files under the covers these days, and although the logs are rotated out-of-the-box, they’re not automatically deleted. Over time (as I was reminded again today 🙄 ), these logs can amount to a large portion of your disk space being used.

Error stopping the blackout ORA-20708 in EM11g Grid Control

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Garth

This post explains how to resolve a blackout in an inconsistent state, when you trying ending it from within Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g, and see the following message: Error stopping the blackout “Blackout-06-Jun-2012 13:55:32”: ORA-20708: The start of the blackout is currently being processed ORA-06512: at “SYSMAN.MGMT_BLACKOUT_ENGINE”, line 3394 ORA-06512: at “SYSMAN.MGMT_BLACKOUT”, line 74 ORA-06512: