Guys, I have a number of sites here which have been having issues with their MF XP farms where the IMA service will hang on startup, upon rebooting of the server. Recreating the LHC doesn't make any difference, sometimes removing the server from the farm and adding it back into the farm with the chfarm tool works, other times it doesn't. All of my sites are using an SQL datastore. This is an intermittent problem and on some sites it will occur only once or twice every 6-12 months, were others it may occur a number of times a month. Down time has been minimised as they are all load balanced farms and the customers all have a good change control/recovery plan and can typically have the servers back in production within an hour. In a farm one server may fail and the others work fine, where in other farms multiple servers may fail. The problem is why is this all of a sudden happening now. Anyone seen this behavior before? All sites are running MFXP FR3/SP3 or FR2/SP2 with Win2k SP3 and their SQL server is running SQL 2k SP3a Tony Lyne Senior Systems Engineer Computerland Central P O Box 1470 PALMERSTON NORTH Telephone (+64) 06 3537300 Facsimile (+64) 06 3566800 Mobile (+64) 0274 720696 E-mail Tony.Lyne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Internet http://www.computerland.co.nz <http://www.computerland.co.nz/> CAUTION: This e-mail message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me immediately and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Thank you.