Hi all, RAC 11.2.0.3.1 on RHEL 5.7 with role separation (different groups for sysasm and sysdba) I've noticed that the directory <diagnostic_dest>/rdbms and the files inside it are owned by the group asmadmin (not oinstall). The oracle software owner is defined like this: $ id oracle uid=xxxx(oracle) gid=xxxx(oinstall) groups=xxxx(dba),xxxx(asmdba),xxxx(oinstall) [grid@xxxx diag]$ ls -l total 36 drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 asm drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 23 14:08 clients drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 crs drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 diagtool drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 lsnrctl drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 netcman drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 ofm drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle asmadmin 4096 Feb 28 10:09 rdbms drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 14 16:30 tnslsnr The EM GC agent (11.1) is complaining because it's not able to read the database alert log (errors in emagent_perl.trc), adding the agent owner to the asmadmin group makes the errors disappear, but I'd like to know: 1. Is asmadmin the expected/correct owner group? 2. For those who use such configuration - who's the owner group in your environments? I've already opened an SR, but I'm still waiting for reply. Thanks Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l