Before installing the OpenEdge Memory Profiler tool, you need to extract the contents of the oemp-<version>.zip installer package. This package includes the installation and management utility, a link to the documentation, and all necessary application support and configuration files. Progress recommends against extracting the installer package directly into any <DLC> subdirectory. Instead, before extracting, copy oemp-<version>.zip to a directory where you have reliable write permissions and which is not subject to deletion by other users or processes, especially when working on shared systems. For example, your system's home directory. This approach helps ensure that the extracted files and directories are created without encountering permission-related issues.

The following section explains the extraction process and the contents of the extracted folder:

  1. Navigate to the following path in your OpenEdge installation:
    <DLC>/servers/redist/
    Look for a file named matching:
    oemp-<version>.zip
    Where, <version> refers to the installed OpenEdge release version, for example, 12.8.9.
  2. When you extract the ZIP file, the extracted contents are placed by default into a new oemp subdirectory. For the purpose of this document, the directory where the ZIP file is copied is referred to as <oemp-install-dir>, and the extracted contents can be found in <oemp-install-dir>/oemp.
    Note: While you can extract the ZIP file to any directory with write access, the installation process by default creates the PAS for OpenEdge instance in the oemp subdirectory within the working directory defined by your OpenEdge environment—<WRKDIR>/oemp. For this reason, Progress does not recommend extracting the ZIP file within the <WRKDIR> directory, as it may conflict with the default oemp PAS for OpenEdge instance that the installation process is designed to create.
  3. Review the extracted files.
    After extraction, you should see the following key files and folders within the oemp subfolder:
    Table 1. OpenEdge Memory Profiler installation folder contents
    Name Type Description
    ablapps File folder Contains the resources associated with the PAS for OpenEdge instance and the database. These resources are either copied or merged into the new instance during the post-creation phase.
    bin File folder Contains executable scripts such as oemp.bat or oemp.sh for installing, starting, stopping, and deleting the PAS for OpenEdge instance.
    conf File folder Contains a property file that can be customized for the installation process. Users can specify overrides for certain properties, such as the ports used by the PAS for OpenEdge instance, in this directory. This allows configuration without passing parameters on the command line.
    MANIFEST.OE OpenEdge file Contains metadata about the build and version of the OpenEdge Memory Profiler package.
    readme.md README file Contains a summary of the folder contents, copyright information, and a link to this documentation.