trouble shooting bringing up oracle enterprise manager outside its linux vm

Question

I received an VM with Oracle installed (VM Workstation compatible). It is installed on centOS. I can bring up sqldeveloper outside it and select data correctly when the VM is running. What I can't do is figure out how to access enterprise manager.

1 - I looked at this page: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29505_01/server.1111/e10897/em_manage.htm#BABHJAGE and found my portlist.ini file which looks like this (yes maximo is installed also):

Enterprise Manager Console HTTP Port (orcl) = 1158
Enterprise Manager Agent Port (orcl) = 3938
Enterprise Manager Console HTTP Port (maximo75) = 5500
Enterprise Manager Agent Port (maximo75) = 3938

Now when I try to bring up EM from outside the VM (like I do apps that are running on it otherwise besides EM) using this url:

http://192.168.174.123:5500/em

I get this:

This page can't be displayed

• Make sure the web address http://192.168.174.123:5500 is correct.
• Look for the page with your search engine.
• Refresh the page in a few minutes.

Now I can bring up another app running on the vm like this: http://192.168.174.123/maximo

So I know the VM is running and because I can also use sqldeveloper I know the database is up and running.

Turning Windows firewall off (yes windows 7 hosting the VM) does not change the symptoms.

I can do what I want through sql, but I'd rather be able to use EM.

Can someone suggest what I'm missing or how to fix this?

Answer 1

Did you start the services that should run for you database console? For that, login to the vm, set your environment and issue emctl start dbconsole It complains if it is already running, or start the console if it was not running, if you are lucky. Once it runs, you can connect to it using a browser.