Hi Gerry, you could try prefixing your emctl commands with "call" or "start" (windows commands), so they get their own execution environment. Other than that I wouldn't have an idea why it does not go on and what could be done about it. A Windows admin might be of more help here. Best regards, Robert http://robertvsoracle.blogspot.com On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Gerry Miller <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > ** > Hi Robert, > > Funny you should say that as that is exactly what I did: > echo 1 > > emctl start blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint -nodeLevel xxx.glk.xxx.int:host > echo 2 > emctl stop agent > echo3 > > but didn't mention it in order to not complicate things. The first echo > worked but that was it. > > Thanks > > > Gerry > > Robert Hanuschke wrote: > > Hi Gerry, > > should work generally. Obviously the environment is set correctly, the > blackout creation works. Have you tried adding echo commands to see if the > execution gets that far? > so: > > emctl start blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint -nodeLevel xxx.glk.xxx.int:host > echo one > emctl stop agent > echo two > > > Best regards, > Robert > http://robertvsoracle.blogspot.com > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l