Newbie here... Help! Apparently I have goofed somewhere. oops, i mean created another learning experience. i cloned two 9.2.0.5 <http://9.2.0.5> instances on w2k from an old production environment. everything seems to be running better, faster, yea! right? well, i cant hit as sys remotely via sql*plus or OEM to what is now production. investigating the OEM issue via google, metalink, et.al. i have found the following in %ORACLE_HOME%\network\log\nmiconf.log: DBSNMP for 32-bit Windows: release 9.2.0.0.0 - Production on 06-APR-05 17:04:30 Discovering services on lon1-gdw1 configured on host addresses { lon1-gdw1.global.sunrise.medical 10.5.1.100 <http://10.5.1.100>} Warning : Listener LISTENER defined in d:\oracle\ora9i\network\admin\listener.ora will be skipped because, it does not have a corresponding NT service entry Warning : Skipping OracleOraHome9iTNSListener : Could not find corresponding listener definition in {d:\oracle\ora9i\network\admin\listener.ora} Warning : No Listener found for SID CRN. CRN will be skipped Warning : No Listener found for SID CRN1. CRN1 will be skipped Warning : No Listener found for SID GDWP. GDWP will be skipped Could not determine location of emtab. D:\>lsnrctl status LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.5.0 - Production on 07-APR-2005 07:53: 12 Copyright (c) 1991, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=lon1-gdw1)(PORT=1521))) STATUS of the LISTENER ------------------------ Alias LISTENER Version TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.5.0 - Produc tion Start Date 06-APR-2005 12:22:07 Uptime 0 days 19 hr. 31 min. 6 sec Trace Level off Security OFF SNMP OFF Listener Parameter File D:\oracle\ora9i\network\admin\listener.ora Listener Log File D:\oracle\ora9i\network\log\listener.log Listening Endpoints Summary... (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=lon1-gdw1.global.sunrise.medical )(PO RT=1521))) (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1ipc))) (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=lon1-gdw1.global.sunrise.medical )(PO RT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW)) (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=lon1-gdw1.global.sunrise.medical )(PO RT=2100))(Presentation=FTP)(Session=RAW)) Services Summary... Service "CRN" has 2 instance(s). Instance "CRN", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Instance "CRN", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Service "CRN1" has 2 instance(s). Instance "CRN1", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Instance "CRN1", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Service "CRN1XDB" has 1 instance(s). Instance "CRN1", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Service "GDWP" has 2 instance(s). Instance "GDWP", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Instance "GDWP", status READY, has 2 handler(s) for this service... Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s). Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service... The command completed successfully D:\> The OracleOraHome9iTNSListener is set to restart Automatically but it will not, and i cant get it to start manually either. I assume i messed up when creating the listener file for the new instances as well as when i did the Oracle install. i am continuing to run this down, but wanted some senior counseling since i am the only real DBA on site. your comments, experience and advice is greatly appreciated. -- Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l