Multiple agents on the same host

The remote agent is a very powerful tool and is easy to deploy. We can use a separate installation for every agent that we want to have running on a host. With a little modification of the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/schagent code, we can easily configure multiple agents on a single host using the same software tree.

The contents of $ORACLE_HOME/schagent.conf suggest that the location of this file and the runtime files can be controlled by the EXECUTION_AGENT_DATA environment variable. We need to have this ability when we want to run multiple agents on the same host using the same software tree. If you take a look at $ORACLE_HOME/bin/schagent, there will be a little surprise. The EXECUTION_AGENT_DATA variable is reset to NULL, making the variable useless. I hope this is a bug that can be fixed soon. For now, I entered a comment sign before the line that resets the EXECUTION_AGENT_DATA variable, which led to an enhancement request (7560494). There is a good chance that...