I am getting this error when doing a switchover through oem grid control: ORA-16552: error occurred while generating directives for client I find this in the alert log: Process (ospid 15269954) is suspended due to switchover to physical standby operation. and sometimes: ORA-16456: switchover to standby in progress or completed which pointed me to a trace file that showed that the process running actually belonged to the agent. Research on MOS indicated that there was a known bug relating to stored profiles. However, select * from dba_profiles returned 0 rows, so I dont think its related to that bug. I can resolve the problem by manually shutting down and startup mount the instance, but I really need for this operation to work going through oem. Anyone have ideas? Oracle 11.2.0.3, oem grid control 11g (though I dont think its a problem with grid control per se). -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l