Right. You want to add a service via 'srvctl add service ....'. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Hall Subject: Re: DBMS_SERVICE create service/start_service and DB Restarts doesn't start service I think what Michael McMullen was referring to is the big note at the top of the CREATE_SERVICE procedure in the documentation that says you shouldn't be using this in RAC or Restart configurations :) http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25788/d_serv.htm#i1001480 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l