In this blog post I’d like to demonstrate how to skip a fixup in AutoUpgrade. This can be very useful in cases where you know that an issue may happen. Recently we saw several cases with unexpected long runtime for the gathering of fixed objects stats.

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Analyze Mode
During the analyze phase, AutoUpgrade creates a <SID>_checklist.cfg file. You will find it in your job’s prechecks subdirectory, e.g.
/home/oracle/logs/DB12/100/prechecks
My SID is DB12, and 100 is the job number.
This is how the db12_checklist.cfg looks in my example:
[SID] [DB12] ========================================== [container] [DB12]… Continue reading...