----- Original Message ----- From: "Joeffrey Betita" <jmbetita@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:07 AM Subject: RE: The connection was refused whenattemptingtocontacthostname:5500 > hello > Jim i did what you suggested. but after typing "emctl start dbconsole" all > i > get is a failed connection error message. > what should i do next? i'm lost. thanks for your help. > > rgds, > Joeffrey > The oracle documentation has some coverage on how to work with enterprise manager (http://oraclesvca2.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10742/toc.htm). It's important that these commands be run as the oracle user with the appropriate environment variables set (ORACLE_HOME, PATH, ORACLE_SID). Check those and copy and paste the exact response you're getting on the command line in a reply so we can see more about what's going on. As Jim mentioned as well, you should turn iptables off just to make certain all the packets are getting through. A good resource for installing oracle on CentOS/RHEL is http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley_10gdb_install.html.