Managing Fusion Applications - Oracle Fusion Applications Administration Essentials - page 100

Before you apply a patch or validate a patch, ensure that the snapshot is current for
the environment. To take a snapshot, you can use the adadmin.sh utility located
under the $FA_ORACLE_HOME/lcm/ad/bin directory.

You can run the Patch Impact report to understand what the impact of the patch is on
your environment. For more information, please review the Patch reporting section.

If you are planning to apply multiple patches, please make sure you review the
readme files for all the patches and all the mentioned steps have been followed.

Patch reporting

Patch reporting is used to determine whether or not a specific patch has already
been applied to your environment, the impact of applying patches on your environ-
ment, or a list of installed product families and their version and diagnostic report to
view the status of the current patch session. The following table provides description
of the syntax:

Syntax Description

This provides information on how the patch im-
pacts on your environment.

fapmgr.sh report
-patchimpact -patctop
<<PatchTopDirectory>>

This provides the installed product families' version
details.

Fapmgr.sh report
-listcomps

This tells you if the patch has already been applied
to your environment or not.

Fapmgr.sh report -is-
applied -patch