I was getting ready for a storage refresh on one of our DR servers when I saw a database instance I was unfamiliar with named DBUA2758156. From the name I assume it is something associated with the database upgrade assistant but I have no idea what. It is in nomount mode, has been running for 5 days and has an orapw and init.ora file (also with a timestamp from 5 days ago) but no entry in /etc/oratab. Googling and searching metalink just turns up a bunch of DBUA documentation. I'm tempted to just try shutting it down but since I've never seen anything like this before I opened an SR and thought I'd check if anyone here had seen anything similar. This is the init.ora file: db_name=DBUA2758 db_unique_name=DBUA2758156 shared_pool_size=128m cpu_count=1 diagnostic_dest=/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/log _enable_NUMA_support=false Full set of background processes: zoracle 26744 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:58 ora_pmon_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26748 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:01:03 ora_psp0_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26752 1 1 Oct02 ? 01:48:58 ora_vktm_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26758 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:12 ora_gen0_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26762 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:17 ora_diag_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26766 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:19 ora_dbrm_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26770 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:03:06 ora_dia0_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26774 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:12 ora_mman_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26778 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:13 ora_dbw0_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26782 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:12 ora_lgwr_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26787 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:17 ora_ckpt_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26791 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:07 ora_smon_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26795 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:05 ora_reco_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26799 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:33 ora_mmon_DBUA2758156 zoracle 26803 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:55 ora_mmnl_DBUA2758156 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l