Opatch. A tool nobody really loves but everybody has to use (at least those of you who patch or aren’t in our cloud deployment). Opatch gets distributed via MOS. And you often can apply patches with an older version of OPatch. So why should you use the most recent version of OPatch? Why should you use the most recent version of OPatch? First of all, you have a base installation of Opatch in your $ORACLE_HOMEs: [CDB2] oracle@localhost:/u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1 $ ls OPatch auto jlib opatchauto.cmd operr.bat scripts config jre opatch.bat operr_readme.txt version.txt datapatch modules opatch_env.sh oplan datapatch.bat ocm opatch.pl oracle_common docs opatch…
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Grid Infrastructure PSU Jan 2015 – Am I too intolerant?
Germans are not only known for being precise and timely – but sometimes also for being too direct. Well, Roy could tell you stories … and I always honor his politeness 🙂 Enough about stereotypes. I work with a customer at the moment on their 12c upgrades. And I did recommend the most recent PSU (Patch Set Updates) for their Grid Infrastructure environments running Oracle Restart. Same of course for the database homes but this blog post will just name some findings I’ve had the other night when trying to apply the January 2015 GI PSU to my Oracle Restart…