if you have RAC you can set up services as cluster resources and start them all with a simple comand. Alan.- On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Uzzell, Stephan <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Services is really in some ways an unfortunate name for them – it makes > searching quite difficult as it is a broad enough term with enough other > uses that it is hard to find the answer I’m looking for.**** > > ** ** > > I recently got a complaint that users were unable to connect to one of the > databases. When I connected, I found that the service they connect to was > not running. My guess is that we (the DBAs) failed to restart that service > after the last maintenance window – and it seems that in 10g, services do > not automatically start when you bring the instance up.**** > > ** ** > > So – how do people monitor that the necessary services are up and running? > Can Grid Control be set to alert if a service is down?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks!**** > > ** ** > > *Stephan Uzzell***** > > ** ** >