Andrew, That is a good idea for large numbers of windows hosts. How many are you talking about? Have you looked at silent installs of the 12c agent? http://dbasolved.com/2013/04/10/install-oem-agents-silently-in-any-environment/ Bobby From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Kerber Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 10:55 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: Cygwin and Cloud Control Agent Since OEM 11 and Cloud Control 12c, (I think) Oracle has required that cygwin be installed on windows servers, and SSH configured properly before the Oracle agent can be pushed to the Oracle servers through grid/cloud control. Has anyone figure out a silent install for cygwin? It occurred to me that we could save some time if we could set up a distribution package for a cygwin installation for the Windows guys to install and the agent could then be pushed when we are ready to finish the configuration. -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'