Hi Nuno, I was not talking about 10.2.0.5 here. I have a 11.2 RDBMS installation, with no separate grid control agent installation on the clusternodes. Only the database and database control 11.2, which comes with a 10.2.0.4.2 agent, is running from that Oracle Home. This installation also brings Oracle Configuration Manager - Release: 10.3.2.0.0 - Production and that has its own collection infrastructure I believe, storing files under ccr. All I have in $ORACLE_HOME/ccr/config is a ccr.properties file which only has lines that are commented out. And there's nothing like a mac or ip address in the files in $ORACLE_HOME/ccr/state. so it's pretty safe to assume that no mac or ip address is sent to oracle ccs. Andre 2009/11/12 Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Andre van Winssen wrote,on my timestamp of 12/11/2009 9:11 PM: > > > I can see vip hostnames being sent because they are spfile parameter values >> (e.g. *listener) but not any other ip address or mac address. Where did you >> see that MAC address is being sent to oracle" >> > > In the description of the config file for exclusions. The actual parameter > to use is shown there. > > There is also a reference to it in the description of "What is new in > 10.2.0.5", install guide. I'm surprised you missed it. > Here: > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/e10041/intro.htm#sthref12 > > I quote: > "# > Disabling Collection of IP and MAC Addresses: You can disable the > collection of the Host IP Address and the Network Interface MAC Address. To > disable the collection of these items, you must add the following entries to > the $ORACLE_HOME/ccr/config/collector.properties file. > * > To disable the collection of network addresses, add the following > entry: > ccr.metric.host.ecm_hw_nic.inet_address=false > * > To disable the collection of the MAC address, add the following entry: > ccr.metric.host.ecm_hw_nic.mac_address=false > " > > > Enough? > > -- > Cheers > Nuno Souto > in wet Sydney, Australia > dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >