Silly question:

I've inherited a few new servers (9.2.0.x on RedHat AS 2.1)
and I want to add them to the Enterprise Manager Console.
When I tried, they failed and I went to figure out why.

Starting with the agentctl and then with the error log that it
references, the message I get says that it can't find the emtab
file.

I can't find the oratab file on the machines, either.

My question is - how important *are* those files? The machine
works and the DBes are up and working ... so, why would someone
*not* put those in place.

Thanks!

-X

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