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Figure 6-42. Step 4: Validation
After the validation starts, the message above the Analyze button changes, providing additional information on
the process. You can get a detailed view by clicking Show Detailed Progress Here. You may notice that the analysis
includes quite a few checks: verifying that the targets are supported for patching; verifying normal and elevated user
credentials; verifying target tools, commands, permissions, and upgrades to OPatch; staging the selected patches;
and then running the prerequisite checks for patching. If all the prerequisites pass, the patch is seen as Ready for
Deployment.
Any issues that the patching may have will show up at this point. For example, if a patch conflict exists, a replacement
or merge patch may be required. If a replacement or merge patch is not available, you can request such a patch directly
from this screen.
If any issues need to be resolved, they will be listed under the Issues to Resolve heading. Anything that the
analysis recommends to be added will be listed under Added from Analysis. General messages will be under
Informational Messages. After reviewing all these messages, you can click the Review button.
Reviewing and Deploying the Plan
At this point, you are ready to move directly to step 5, Review & Deploy. You can reach this step by either clicking the
Review button in step 4 or clicking Review & Deploy on the left side of the screen.
On the Review & Deploy page, the patch plan is described in detail along with the targets that will be affected by
the plan. If additional targets have been discovered after the analysis, they will be added to the Impacted Targets list.
In our case, two additional listeners were found and added, because they run out of the same Oracle home that we are
preparing to patch.
The patches that are going to be applied to the Oracle home are listed on this page as well. The important thing
to look for is a status of Conflict Free. In our case with CPUAPR2013, we have no conflicts with the patch. Figure 6-43
shows a subset of the Review & Deploy screen indicating that the plan is ready for deployment.
 
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