The Service Control (SRVCTL) utility that administrators can use to manage instances and Real Application Clusters databases. SRVCTL is installed on each node. The SRVCTL utility gathers information about all the instances for Oracle Enterprise Manager. SRVCTL acts as a single point of control between the Oracle Intelligent Agent and the nodes. Only one node's Oracle Intelligent Agent is used to communicate to SRVCTL. SRVCTL on that node then communicates to the other nodes through Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI).