How to extend monitoring to unsupported operating systems has been described many times. In some cases, getting system monitoring via a manual installation of an agent derived from a previous (or even older) version of Operations manager is only the first step.
The case of the server proved interesting in this regard. Oracle running on an operating system AIX version 5.3, to which Operations Manager 2012 R2 (1.5.1-256) was the latest version of the agent. NiCE Oracle MP also does not explicitly allow the operation of such systems.
The first barrier is the installation of the required Oracle Instrumentation component, which only pretends to be a positive completion, but in fact is not:
You can, of course, ask the AIX system administrator to perform a manual installation after copying the necessary files, and even that works, detecting the NiCE Library Computer is already possible then:
Next, you need to configure monitoring of the Oracle instance. This task on such a system fails, and if you look at the configuration file on AIX, you will see residual content:
However, if you create a configuration file manually (following the example of another monitored system),
then you will find that you should not run the task [MP Config] Add Oracle Instance , immediately Start Oracle Database Servers Discovery:
After some time, there will be detection and monitoring of the Oracle instance on the unsupported system and we will not need to use the case "remote monitoring".