have you considered placing you oracle inventory INSIDE an oracle home? i dont know if its possible, but we have toyed with the idea so that we can more easily distribute pre-installed oracle homes to other machines. i would presume you would just set ORACLE_BASE to some dir within the home thoughts anyone? thanks, steve "Prem Khanna J" <premj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/30/2004 04:24 AM Please respond to premj To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: dbsnmp and oraInventory - Advice ! Hi all, The ENV is oracle 9.2.0.4 / Aix5.2L. we would like to have different oracle inventory (in /etc) for different oracle homes.The reason for doing this is : one instance is not affected by another instance , if there happens to a problem with the inventory. Other than maintaining multiple inventory , is there a better solution for this ? (In my case, the number of inventory will not be more than 2) But, we want to use DBSNMP also. This by default reads /etc/oratab to get the list of oracle homes . How do make it read my oratab (say /etc/new/oratab) also ? All i want is : dbsnmp should discover all my instances ! This is where i'm stuck . Can someone guide me ? Any suggestions please ?! Regards, Prem. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l