Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Oracle Enterprise Manager addresses the challenges listed in Table
6-2
with its much-improved patch
management solution that delivers maximum ease with minimum downtime. The new patch management solution
offers the following benefits:
Integrated patching workflow with My Oracle Support Therefore, you see recommendations,
•
search patches, and roll out patches all using the same user interface.
Complete, end-to-end orchestration of patching workflow using
•
patch plans,
including
automated selection of deployment procedures and analysis of the patch conflicts. Therefore,
minimal manual effort is required.
Clear division of responsibilities between designers and operators - Designers can focus
•
on creating patch plans, testing them on a test system, and saving them as patch templates.
Operators can focus on creating patch plans out of the template for rolling out the patches
on a production system.
Easy review of patches for applicability in your environment, validation of patch plans, and
•
automatic receipt of patches to resolve validation issues.
Saving successfully analyzed or deployable patch plans as patch templates, which contain
•
a predetermined set of patches and deployment options saved from the source patch plan.
Out-of-place patching for stand-alone (single-instance) database targets and Oracle Grid
•
Infrastructure targets that are part of Oracle Exadata.
Flexible patching options such as rolling and parallel, both in offline and online mode.
•
Configuration of My Oracle Support
Before we can truly discuss some of the new patching options, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) has to be integrated
with My Oracle Support (MOS). Oracle has done a good job of integrating the two interfaces, making it easier for
us to find patches within MOS from the Oracle Enterprise Manager interface.
To set up My Oracle Support within Oracle Enterprise Manager, our MOS credentials need to be added to OEM.
This can be accomplished by choosing Setup
➤
My Oracle Support
➤
Set Credentials, as shown in Figure
6-32
.
Figure 6-32.
Setting credentials for My Oracle Support
