600 databases are not that many from a grid control or cloud control perspective . I'm wondering why the comment was made . if you have ovm running you can down the EM templates and run a discovery . I have had over 1200 databases being monitored usif em11g grid control where the oms and repo was running on a tiny SPARC v880 with not many issues Fuad > On May 2, 2014, at 8:28, "Freeman, Donald G. CTR (ABL)" > <donald.freeman.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The place I work doesn't use grid control. They have about 600 active > databases in the development regions. We lack hardware infrastructure. > All of these databases are mounted on five Solaris 10 Servers. Another DBA > told me that they previously tried to get Grid Control running but it failed > on discovery. It couldn't handle that many objects on a server. That was > some time ago. > > I'm about to get drafted (listening over the wall) to patch this weekend > (I'm not on that team) and I'm not really interested in trying to patch that > many databases manually, at least not twice. Is there a method to install > grid control in some way that it can handle this situation? Can 12C handle > this? > > I would start doing some reading but I'm afraid somebody is going to walk > around the corner in about 5 minutes and give me, "the look." I'm looking > for a direction to march in that will fix this going forward. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l