Qaiser, We encountered the same issue. We ended up building a permanent xserver on an old box somewhere, then editing the /oms/opmn/opmn/xml file to set the DISPLAY to the IP of the permanent xserver. Jeff T. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Q A I S E R Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:52 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Database Control on AIX 5L Requires xServer in EM 10g AIX 5.3 (64-bit) OEM Database Control 10.1.0.4 JDK 1.4.2 Metalink Note:282615.1 states "OMS on AIX 5L Requires xServer in EM 10g". I have a TAR going on with Oracle. Per Oracle analyst we need to keep XServer running for the agent as long as the dbconsole is running. This means DB Control is dependent on the client from where it was started. Shutting down the client from where X emulator was running, will bring DB Control down. I find this hard to believe that a monitoring product is dependent on X emulator. Has anybody experienced this? Qaiser -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l