I think port 5501 is fine, mine is "5505" actually. Check emd.properties file for URL... Or for port information. $cat $ORACLE_HOME/`hostname`*/sysman/config/emd.properties | grep URL # OMS Upload URL REPOSITORY_URL=http://{hostname}.{domain_name}:5505/em/upload/ # The download URL for the EMD Oracle Wallet and its local file location. # Note: Ensure that this URL references a valid port number at which the # EMD main servlet URL EMD_URL=http://{hostname}.{domain_name}:1830/emd/main # or just the NIC associated with the hostname in EMD_URL tracelevel.fetchlets.URLTiming=WARN -----Original Message----- From: Sami Seerangan [mailto:dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:34 AM To: Vajrala, Madhusudana R. Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: OEM Database control Vajrala, Thanks for your response. I did follow the metalink note, now my DB console is listening at 5501 instead of 5500. However http://cclf.dynamic.us.hsbc:5501/em/ still shows the message "database is not available" C:\Documents and Settings\s397131>emctl start dbconsole Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control Release 10.1.0.2.0 Copyright (c) 1996, 2004 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. http://cclf.dynamic.us.hsbc:5501/em/console/aboutApplication Agent Version : 10.1.0.2.0 OMS Version : 10.1.0.2.0 Protocol Version : 10.1.0.2.0 Agent Home : C:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\cclf.dynamic.us.hsbc_win2k10g Agent binaries : C:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1 Agent Process ID : 2084 Agent Process ID : 2084 Agent URL : http://cclf.dynamic.us.hsbc:1830/emd/main Started at : 2005-07-28 10:15:45 Started by user : SYSTEM Last Reload : 2005-07-28 10:15:45 Last successful upload : (none) Last attempted upload : (none) Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 0.00 Number of XML files pending upload : 27 Size of XML files pending upload(MB) : 2.32 Available disk space on upload filesystem : 24.11% Agent is already started. Will restart the agent This will stop the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control process. Conti nue [y/n] :y The OracleDBConsolewin2k10g service is stopping.... The OracleDBConsolewin2k10g service was stopped successfully. C:\Documents and Settings\s397131>emctl start dbconsole Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control Release 10.1.0.2.0 Copyright (c) 1996, 2004 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. http://cclf.dynamic.us.hsbc:5501/em/console/aboutApplication Starting Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control ...The OracleDBConsolewi n2k10g service is starting....................................... The OracleDBConsolewin2k10g service was started successfully. On 7/28/05, Vajrala, Madhusudana R. <Vajrala.Madhusudana@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > It did happen to me in the beginning. > > I erased the repository and recreated it again. But recently metalink was > updated w/ below links, they can be useful for u. > > http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p > _database_id=NOT&p_id=315299.1 > > http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p > _database_id=NOT&p_id=309687.1 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l