Most of the times either on a VM or on linux O/S on a desktop or laptop static IP is not provisioned. Rest of the Oracle Fusion Middleware software and the DB is okay with this from installation, configuration and runtime standpoint. However, legacy AS Instance and associated opmnctl has significant issues either during installation or the runtime.
"AS instance" installation fails saying the ORACLE_INSTANCE is not empty or does not start with error like "can not resolve fmwtesting.thekpsoft.com for interface any" on DHCP machines. In these cases the workaround that i use is to update /etc/hosts file everytime i hook it up to the network. For example:
192.168.1.10 fmwtesting.thekpsoft.com
::1 fmwtesting.thekpsoft.com
Hope oracle provides a workaround for this at some point or let go of opmnctl :) finally.
