How to control Oracle Management Agent .... Part 2 (How to control Oracle Management Agent in Windows)

How to stop, start Management Agent on Windows

Installation of Oracle Management Agent on a Windows system, creates one new service in the Services control panel.
From that control pannel you can start and stop the services

Component Service Name Format Description
Oracle Management Agent
  OracleAgent
For example:

OracleOraHome1Agent
 Use this to start and stop the Management Agent.


If you have problem in stoping in Windows NT platform (not to other Windows platforms, such as Windows 2000 or Windows XP systems) You can also use the below command to stop agent.

$PROMPT> \bin\emctl istop agent
After stopping the Management Agent using the emctl istop agent command, start the Management Agent using the Services control panel.


How to check the Status of the Management Agent on Windows:

To check the status of the Management Agent on Windows systems:

1.Change directory to the following location in the AGENT_INSTANCE_HOME directory:

AGENT_INSTANCE_HOME\bin
2.Enter the following emctl command to check status of the Management Agent:

$PROMPT> emctl status agent