You can use DBCA.... http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/html/B12013_03/structure.htm#sthref88 Can use before during or after install of DB Michael Boligan Bayer Corporate and Business Service North America Information Services Technology & Operations, BHC Office: (508) 660-4698 Cell: (508) 221-5682 michael.boligan.b@xxxxxxxxx jsb@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/03/2005 11:01 AM Please respond to jsb@xxxxxxxxxxxx To Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject RE: need help on how to configure the 10g console to see a manually created database On Tue, 3 May 2005, Christian Antognini wrote: > >Database SID: ADEV > >Service name: BOX.DOM.COM:1531:ADEV > Service name is wrong. Should be "ADEV". Still no luck - same error. Surely there has to be a simple way to configure the monitoring tools around a manually created database. ;-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l