Install 11.1.0.1.0 Grid Control Agent on Windows 2008R2 using agentDownload.vbs

First download wget for windows, you can find it easily on the internet. Suppose you put wget.exe under C:\, you need to add this to the PATH environment variable; otherwise you will run into the following error:

cmd is:WGET.exe http://mksllc01p:4889/agent_download/10.2.0.4.0/agent_download.rsp
C:\WGET\agentDownload.vbs(77, 4) (null): The system cannot find the file specified.

Now you can use wget to download the agentDownload.vbs file from your OMS server as below:

Wget http://:/agentdownload/11.1.0.1.0/windows_x64/agentDownload.vbs

Once this is done, you are ready to install:

C:\>cscript agentDownload.vbs m r b y

It’ll download the response file and get the agent installed.

After the installation is finished, the agent fails to start. After looking at the logs, it turns out to be time zone setting mismatch between the agent and the setting on the OMS. Looking at \sysman\config\emd.properties, the timezone is set to agentTZRegion=America/Karachi, after changing it to the correct time zone, agent started successfully.