Is it just me? Or is Oracle's documentation on installation and configuration of this product impossibly obtuse? I almost think their plan is to have you try to install it, pull your hair out, and hire one of their consultants in complete exasperation. The Grid Control agent comes with a single text file list of instructions that looks as if it were compiled by a third-grader with a learning disorder. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l