Andrew writes: > Dont forget it is also slow.... Maybe its just me, but its the slowness > that irritates me the most, and that is probably the item that is least > likely to be fixed. Sorry for the late reply! My OMS and Repository DB reside on a reclaimed screaming Dell desktop single core 3.2Ghz P-IV with 2GB of RAM running OEL4. And it surprisingly seems to perform adequately for this speed freak. Granted, I'm the only user, but it does currently monitor 34 targets, where 5 of those are Oracle DBs, 6 are servers, 1 is SQueaL Server (via home-grown plugin to avoid atrocious licensing fees), and the rest are the default Apache web server, beacon, agents and the like. I do need to bounce the OMS probably every other month or so when swap usage hits around 1.5GB. But the "server" has an uptime of over a year, which is probably the longest in our server room after an A/C failure some months ago caused all of the real hardware to do a thermal shutdown. I guess YMMV. :) My probably-pointless $.02, Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l