Oracle Grid Control Agent autostart in RHEL / CentOS

When you install Grid Control Agent in server then the installer also create /etc/init.d/gcstartup script in the server. This init script wont automatically start Agent in server boot. But you can change it to do so. Do following as a root user.

1. Add following in the start of the script:

#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig: 35 10 90
# description: oracle grid control agent stop/start script on system up/down
#
# Use chkconfig command to start this script in appropriate run level.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

#Source Function Library



2. And run following commands:

chkconfig --add gcstartup
chkconfig --levels 2345 gcstartup on
chkconfig --list gcstartup


This will work at least with Grid Control 11g agents and RHEL / Centos.