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To select the appropriate patch for your environment, determine
the following:
What version of the Oracle Database software are you using?
Where your Oracle Home location?
What is your hardware configuration?
1.
You can determine your Oracle database version by navigating
to the Enterprise Manager Database Homepage. The version is listed under
the General section.
2.
The Oracle Home is the operating system location of
your Oracle installation. To determine this location, navigate to your
Enterprise Manager Database Home page. Click View All Properties.
3.
The Oracle Home is listed on the View All Properties
page. Click the Oracle Home link.
4.
The Oracle Home directory page is displayed. On this
page, you can view the file directory of your Oracle home, along with
the installed product components and time of installation.
5.
Detailed information is provided about the components
on this page. Click the host link to access information about your hardware
configuration.
6.
The Host page appears listing your operating system,
hardware platform, IP address, number of CPUs, memory size and disk space.
Note your operating system and platform. Click Database to return to your
Database Home page.
In this section you learn how to download, or stage patches.
Perform the steps listed below to stage the patch release:
1.
Access the Maintenance page. Click Apply Patch
in the Database Software Patching section.
2.
The Patch: Select Patch page appears. Enterprise
Manager automatically supplies environment information including your
product family, product, release number, and platform. You can limit your
search by entering values for Begin and End dates. Click Search to access
the available patches from MetaLink.
Note: If there are no patches for this release,
you will receive the error message as shown. If there are patches to be
applied, proceed with the remaining steps in this section.
3.
The patches are displayed in the Search Results section.
You can view the patch details by clicking ViewDetails. You can view
the patch Readme by clicking View ReadMe. The ReadMe includes a description
of the bug fixes.
4.
Select the patch you are interested in, or select the
most recent patch set if you are performing a periodic software update.
5.
The Patch: Select Destination page appears. On this
page you select your destination. You can specify your target database,
or you can select a host or directory location to stage your patch. Click
Next.
6.
The Patch: Set Credentials page appears. On this page,
supply the operating system username and password to enable Enterprise
Manager to stage the patch to your Oracle home. Enterprise Manager requires
these credentials for job scheduling. Click Next.
7.
The Patch: Stage or Apply page appears. By default Enterprise
Manager downloads the patch to the stage directory which is listed on
the top of the page. Typically this is an Oracle home subdirectory called
EMStagePatches<patch number>. Click Next.
8.
The Patch: Schedule page appears. Select Immediately in the Schedule Patch Job section to download and stage the patch immediately.
Click Next.
9.
The Patch: Summary page appears. Click Finish.
10.
A confirmation page confirms that your job was submitted.
Navigate to the Maintenance page. Click ViewPatch Cache in the Deployments
section to confirm that the patch was staged.
11.
Click View Patch Cache in the Deployments section to
view the Patch Cache page.
After you have downloaded the latest patch or patch set release,
you can install it. Prior to installing the patch, you should shut down your
database instances, listeners, and dependent applications, and back up your current Oracle home installation. You can apply
the patch by unzipping the downloaded file and running the Oracle Installer.
1.
Review the ReadMe included with the patch release for
patch-specific installation instructions.
2.
Shut down all dependent applications.
3.
Shut down your database instances.
4.
Optionally, shut down the database listener.
5.
Shut down Enterprise Manager processes
6.
Apply the patch by following the instructions in the
ReadMe file.
7.
Restart the database instance(s).
8.
Start the listener if you shut it down in step 4.
9.
Start the Enterprise Manager processes.
10.
Start your applications and notify users.
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