In my experience doing this with Oracle9i, there are two pieces to OLS--one requires software installation , one requires installation of database objects. So you will have to shut down all instances using the same Oracle Home, as a change to the Oracle executable is the first part of the process. Paul Baumgartel paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 212.538.1143 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Jeff Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:33 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Installation of Oracle Label Security I realize this is a basic question, but I'd appreciate a bit of a sanity check. I need to install Oracle Label Security on our test box, and am wondering if I need to shutdown all databases in the same ORACLE_HOME before I perform the install. Trying to get an outage of all test databases in our environment is a political headache, so I was hoping that this install would not require such an outage. I've been googling/metalinking, can't find anything suggesting one way or the other. My thinking is that installing OLS is nothing more than sticking in some cat*/PLB files into $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin, but I might be wrong. Anyone? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeffery D Thomas DBA Enterprise Database and Middleware Services Thomson, Inc. Email: jeff.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx EDMS Portal: http://indysaixdb01.indy.tce.com:7778/portal/page?_pageid=53,44513,53_44669 <http://indysaixdb01.indy.tce.com:7778/portal/page?_pageid=53,44513,53_44669&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL> &_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ==============================================================================