Using Patch Wizard to Patch 10.2.0.1.0 Management Agents to 10.2.0.2.0

Purpose

This OBE demonstrates how to use the Patch Wizard provided by Grid Control to patch the management agents to 10.2.0.2.0.

Time to Complete

Approximately ½ hour

Topics

This OBE covers the following topics:

	Overview
	Using the Patch Wizard
	Summary
	Related information

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Overview

Grid Control allows you to manage and monitor targets on hosts where the Oracle Management Agent is installed and running. You can also use Grid Control to simplify the patching of Oracle software on any host where the Management Agent is running, and to provide critical patch advisories. Grid Control simplifies the process of patching Oracle software with these features:

Critical Patch Advisories: This page lists all the critical software patch advisories for Oracle products. It includes their corresponding Impact areas, a brief description of each advisory, the number of Affected Hosts and Oracle homes for each advisory. Critical Patch Advisories also provides support for Remedies. You can select an advisory and view the calculated remedies from the context of that Advisory, as well as the affected Oracle homes.
Online Patching: This feature allows you to connect to OracleMetaLink via Enterprise Manager, perform a search and download the required patches/patchsets, and apply.
Offline Patching: This feature allows you to perform all the patching activities from the Patch Cache. That is, even when the OMS is not connected to OracleMetaLink via Internet, you can perform a search, download and apply a patch/patchset. See Viewing Patch Cache Information, and Offline Patching Settings for more information.

Grid Control also let you search for an Oracle patch (or patchset) that interests you at the OracleMetaLink Web site. To enable Grid Control to search for patches at OracleMetaLink and to provide critical patch advisories, you must specify valid OracleMetaLink credentials.

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Using Patch Wizard

Perform the following steps to use the Patch Wizard to patch the management agent to 10.2.0.2.0:

1.	Open the browser and enter the following URL: http://<management service hostname>.<domain>:<port>/em/ The default port value on a clean machine is 7777. However, if there are other instances running on the machine, then the port may be different. The login page will be displayed. Enter the User Name and Password, and then click the Login button.
2.	Before you start the Patch Wizard confirm that you have setup the Patching and Metalink Settings correctly. Click the Setup link.
3.	Click the Patching Setup link from the left navigation bar.
4.	Make sure that the MetaLink credentials are properly setup. Once you confirm it, click the Deployments tab to access the Patch Wizard.
5.	Click the Patch Oracle Software link under the Patching section.
6.	Specify the Patch Number as 3822442, select Linux x86 from the Platform drop-down list and click the Search button.
7.	Select the patchset that is for the 10.2.0.2 release and click the Next button.
8.	In this step the Patch Wizard will automatically detect all the existing 10.2.0.1 agents and list them in the Available Targets section. Select the agent that you want to patch with the latest patchset and click the Move button to move it to the Selected Targets section.
9.	Click the Next button.
10.	Preferred credentials simplify access to managed targets by storing target login credentials in the Management Repository. With preferred credentials set, users can access an Enterprise Manager target that recognizes those credentials without being prompted to log into the target. Use the "Preferences" Global link on right hand top of the page to set preferred credentials for any enterprise manager target. If the preferred credentials have been set for the agent that is being patched then you can choose "Use Oracle Home Preferred Credentials" option button. For this exercise Preferred Credentials for this agent are not set so keep the "Override Oracle Home Preferred Credentials" option button selected and specify the host credentials. Click the Next button.
11.	Make sure that the Apply option button is selected and click the Next button. Note: You can use the Provide custom patching script option button to configure Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM). If you select it you will have to provide the necessary values to the different parameters in the script.
12.	Schedule the patch job for immediate execution and click the Next button.
13.	Review your settings and click the Finish button.
14.	The job is submitted. You can click the View Job button to see the progress of the job execution.
15.	You can track the job execution from the job execution page.
16.	When the Patch job is successfully completed you should see the status as Succeeded. Note: You can access all the jobs that are submitted from the Grid Console from the Jobs tab.

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned how to:

Use the Patch Wizard

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Related Information

	Provisioning and Patching your Oracle Environment with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g
	New Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2 based Patching
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