Upgrading EM Grid Control from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3

Okay, so I finally bit the bullet and upgraded EM Grid Control from the initial install version of 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3 and upgraded the EM repository (cleverly named EMREP) from 10.1.0.5 to 10.2.0.1 .

Here's a few observations about the upgrade:

1. The EMREP page in GC still showed the old 10.1 home instead of the new 10.2 home.
   
1. This stems from the fact that I had 2 different ORACLE_HOME installs: /orabase/product/ora10g and /orabase/OracleHomes/db10g.
2. Upgrading meant moving from one home to another and GC did not pick up on this change
   
3. Solution: Remove EMREP from monitoring and re-add it (BTW, refreshing the host configuration did not work!)
2. It took much longer than I had planned.
1. As part of the 10.2.0.3 patch, a repository upgrade was necessary - this step alone took about 45 minutes - yikes!
   
3. There are about 8 new security policies that come with GC 10.2.0.3 ("Password Complexity Verification Function Usage", etc.)
1. Once you've upgraded and logged in to GC, you'll see a whole bunch of new security policy warnings.
2. Sadly, these have to be fixed by going to your Monitoring Templates (you do use templates right??) and using the "Add Policies To Template" button to add the offending policies and then set them appropriately.

One last thing:

• They finally fixed that god-forsaken bug that kept the Database->Administration->Tablespaces page from rendering on 9i databases in under an hour! Jeez, that was annoying as hell! :-)