Fred, What does services.ora tell you? does it contain entries for all the 10 databases? you should find the file in $ORACLE_HOME/network/agent cheers anand On 31/03/06, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) < Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fred, > > > > The discovery process is actually talking to the Oracle agent running on > the box. When the agent starts up, it reads the tnsnames.ora file and the > oratab file. Also look at the snmp_ro.ora. This will tell you all of the > databases (and listeners) that the Oracle agent has discovered. All of this > info is passed to EM when you discover a node. > > > > Good Luck! > > > > Tom > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Alex Gorbachev > *Sent:* Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:30 PM > *To:* fred_fred_1@xxxxxxxxxxx > *Cc:* Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: Enterprise Manager - Node Discovery question > > > > one of the sources is /etc/oratab - check if you have non-existing > databases there > > 2006/3/30, Fred Smith <fred_fred_1@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I'm setting up EM on a 9.2.0.6 database. I started the intelligent agent > on > the other nodes that I will access. Then I do a "discover nodes". > > Can anyone explain the results of node discovery? The node I discover has > 6 > databases on it, however the node discovery comes back with 10 ....... why > > is this? What did it "read" to "discover" these things it thinks are > databases??? > > > Thanks! > > _________________________________________________________________ > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to > get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Alex Gorbachev >