We had to restore our EM11g server, but now the OMS is acting strangely. It fails to start but parts of it start flooding the repository database with sessions. 08:00 -- SQL> select username, count(*) from v$session group by username; USERNAME COUNT(*) ------------------------------ ---------- 27 SYSMAN 1 [oracle@vsnsbioxp34 bin]# pwd /u01/app/oracle/product/Middleware/oms11g/bin [oracle@vsnsbioxp34 bin]# ./emctl start oms Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Release 1 Grid Control Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Starting WebTier... WebTier Successfully Started Starting Oracle Management Server... SQL> / USERNAME COUNT(*) ------------------------------ ---------- 28 SYSMAN 9 SYSMAN_MDS 1 [oracle@vsnsbioxp34 bin]# ./emctl start oms Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Release 1 Grid Control Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Starting WebTier... WebTier Successfully Started Starting Oracle Management Server... Oracle Management Server is not functioning because of the following reason: Unexpected error occurred. Check error and log files. USERNAME COUNT(*) ------------------------------ ---------- 28 SYSMAN 50 SYSMAN_MDS 1 after that, the session count keeps climbing. SQL> / USERNAME COUNT(*) ------------------------------ ---------- 25 SYSMAN 165 SYSMAN_MDS 1 SQL> / USERNAME COUNT(*) ------------------------------ ---------- 26 SYSMAN 234 SYSMAN_MDS 1 08:05 -- killing the OMS [oracle@vsnsbioxp34 bin]# ./emctl stop oms Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Release 1 Grid Control Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Stopping WebTier... WebTier Successfully Stopped Stopping Oracle Management Server... Oracle Management Server Successfully Stopped Oracle Management Server is Down This is on AIX. I have an SR open but am wondering if you might have encountered this. -- Patrice <http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/patrice.boivin> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000206805521> [image: LinkedIn] <http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/patrice-boivin/a/933/5a9> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/PatriceBoivin> [image: Amazon]<http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fregistry.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26type%3Dwishlist%26id%3D2JU0BBL2AGGSD&tag=casper-20> [image: Digg] <http://digg.com/patriceboivin> [image: Google]<http://https://sites.google.com/site/patriceboivin/> Get a signature like this. <http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=19&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_19> CLICK HERE.<http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=19&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_19> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l