Definitely possible, but perhaps the agent has not refreshed the information since it was last changed? I don't have the Configuration license pack, so I'm not able to see the info myself, nor how often the configuration data is collected. Just a thought... Merry Christmas! Rich > I ran the commands to look at the parameters myself and I can't see any > differences between the sysctl.conf files nor from running "sysctl > -a|grep.... SAs are refusing to look at it anymore because they say it's > correct. Is it possible that EM is incorrectly reporting the values? Is > there some kind of refresh I need to do before the compare? I'm concerned > because I remember the problems we had setting up the production server > until we got some of the net.ivp4 settings correct. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l