Agent service was not touched nor has the file system. Bounced the agent and still have the same results. >>> Peter Sharman <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx> 6/4/12 10:40 AM >>> Jeffrey There are a couple of bugs that have similar sorts of messages, but the messages about file permissions make me wonder if someone has secured the database at the filesystem level - is the agent running as a different OS user that may not have permissions to see the files anymore? Pete Pete Sharman Principal Product Manager Enterprise Manager Product Suite 33 Benson Crescent CALWELL ACT 2905 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61262924095 | | Fax: +61262925183 | | Mobile: +61414443449 "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not, it's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long term Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Beckstrom [mailto:JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, 4 June 2012 11:45 PM To: oracle-l-freelists; oracle-db-l Subject: Grid Control 11G monitoring error Starting last Thursday, Grid Control 11G was reporting an error on one of our databases. This is NOT a newly monitored database. Grid has NOT been patched in over 6 months. The following appears in the emagent.trc file. Any ideas as to the cause? 2012-06-01 08:22:29,407 Thread-9696 ERROR engine: [oracle_database,ORAT_xxxyyyy01.gcrta.org,dbDataFilesPerm] : nmeegd_GetMetricData failed : Command exited abnormally without any output 2012-06-01 08:22:29,422 Thread-9696 WARN collector: <nmecmc.c> Error exit. Error message: Command exited abnormally without any output 2012-06-01 08:22:32,485 Thread-9696 ERROR engine: [oracle_database,ORAT_xxxyyyy01.gcrta.org,dbControlFilesPerm] : nmeegd_GetMetricData failed : Command exited abnormally without any output 2012-06-01 08:22:32,501 Thread-9696 WARN collector: <nmecmc.c> Error exit. Error message: Command exited abnormally without any output Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Information Systems 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l