> Kellyn has a great write up on this subject that has come in useful for me > in the past in very similar situations. > > http://dbakevlar.com/2013/08/three-methods-supported-and-not-suppored-to-remove-targets-in-em12c/ Thanks Brian for the pointer and Kellyn for the article! I was going to suggest that method 2 be a MOS article, but searching again using "emcli delete_target" shows 1601983.1 is already created. Funny I couldn't easily find that using the error message though. [phew] Minor annoyance removed. On to the big ones... Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l