Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Clicking this menu command lands you on the My Oracle Support Preferred Credentials page. Here you enter
your single sign-on login needed for MOS, as shown in Figure
6-33
. Then click Apply. (Next to the Apply button is the
Remove button. If you want to remove your MOS credentials from OEM, the Remove button does that.)
Figure 6-33.
Setting My Oracle Support preferred credentials
After adding your MOS account information to OEM, you can begin to look for patches and updates from within
Enterprise Manager.
Patch Plans
Patch plans help you create a consolidated list of patches that you want to apply as a group to one or more targets.
Patch plans have states that map to key steps in the deployment process. Oracle Enterprise Manager supports
creating patches in two forms:
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Patch sets
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Patches (one-off )
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Interim patches that contain a single bug fix or a collection of bug fixes provided as required.
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Diagnostic patches, intended to help diagnose or verify a fix or a collection of bug fixes.
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Patch set updates (PSUs).
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Critical patch updates (CPUs), now known as security patch updates (SPUs).
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you cannot add both patch sets and patches to the same patch plan. instead, you can have a patch plan for
patch sets and another patch plan for patches.
Note
Patches can be added to a target in a plan only if the patch has the same release and platform as the target to
which it is being added. A warning will be raised if you try to add a patch that is different from the product associated
with the target. However, the warning will not prevent you from adding the patch to the plan. You can include any
patch for any target in a patch plan. The plan will validate any patches against your environment and check for
conflicts with the installed patches.
Depending on the patches added to the patch plan, Oracle automatically selects the appropriate deployment
procedure to be used for applying the patches.
By using patch plans, we can simplify the identification and deployment of patches for many environments.
This greatly increases our flexibility in patching by helping us identify any potential conflicts before actually patching
environments.
