Install EM13c agent and add targets using the Linux command line only

A few days ago, I was asked to find a way to automate the addition of newly created Linux virtual machines and databases in our EM13c console. Of course, no action should be performed via the EM web interface!

For the first part (installing the EM13c agent on newly created virtual machines), it’s quite simple, because Oracle gives you many methods (for example, “agent pull” method), in order to carry out this task. But the second part seemed more delicate according to the documentation and my constraints: everything must be done on the virtual machine. I am not allowed to connect to the EM server using SSH.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution that only requires a few extra lines in your shell script!

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