> I wrote a simple script to compare the current status of each service > with it's configuration > If there isn't anything in EM, then how are others dealing with this? We use home-grown scripts. svc_on_pref.sh: Check to see if services are running on their preferred instances. Notify us if not. and ck_lsnr_svc_upd.sh: 11g only (10g script is quite different). Check listener service update making sure pmon's on all instances update their info with all SCAN listeners. at http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/Service.txt do the job we want. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l