For example diskgroup free space or the real statuses of disks within a diskgroup. On 9/2/05, Mark Bole <makbo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What convenience? What specifically about the ASM instance are you > trying to access that you can't access from the database(s) making use > of the ASM instance? > > Christo Kutrovsky wrote: > > > Well, it's not the ability to access the ASM instance. > > > > It's having the convenience to access it from the database running inside > > it. > > > > Christo > > > > -- > Mark Bole > http://www.bincomputing.com > > > > -- Christo Kutrovsky Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l