Well done, Robert: The script: echo 1 call D:\oracleemcc12_2agent_inst\bin\emctl start blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint -nodeLevel xxx.glk.xxx.int:host echo 2 call D:\oracleemcc12_2agent_inst\bin\emctl stop agent echo 3 The output: C:\> oraclestop.bat 1 D:\oracle\admin\dba\scripts>call D:\oracleemcc12_2agent_inst\bin\emctl start blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint -nodeLevel xxx.glk.xxx.int:host Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control 12.1.0.1.0 Copyright (c) 1996, 2012 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint added successfully EMD reload completed successfully 2 Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control 12.1.0.1.0 Copyright (c) 1996, 2012 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. The Oracleagent12cR1Agent service is stopping............ The Oracleagent12cR1Agent service was stopped successfully. 3 Thanks and regards Gerry Robert Hanuschke wrote: Hi Gerry, you could try prefixing your emctl commandswith "call" or "start" (windows commands), so they get their own execution environment. Other than that I wouldn't have an idea why it does not go on and what could be done about it. A Windows admin might be of more help here. Best regards, Robert http://robertvsoracle.blogspot.com[1] On Mon,Aug 6, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Gerry Miller <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>[2]wrote: ** Hi Robert, Funny you should say that as that is exactly what I did: echo 1 emctl start blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint-nodeLevel xxx.glk.xxx.int:host echo 2 emctl stop agent echo3 but didn't mention it in order to not complicate things. The first echoworked but that was it. Thanks Gerry Robert Hanuschke wrote: Hi Gerry, should work generally. Obviously the environment is set correctly, the blackout creation works. Have you tried adding echo commands to see if the execution gets that far? so: emctl start blackout Blackout_xxx_Maint -nodeLevel xxx.glk.xxx.int:host echo one emctl stop agent echo two Best regards, Robert http://robertvsoracle.blogspot.com[3] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l[4] --- Links --- 1 http://robertvsoracle.blogspot.com 2 mailto:gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3 http://robertvsoracle.blogspot.com 4 //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l