racli alter appliance

Runs out-of-place patching steps that do not require the appliance to be offline. This includes the creation and installation of new oracle and grid home directories.

Syntax

racli alter appliance --online_updates --gold_images_path=DIRECTORY

Options

--online_updates: Indicates that the updates do not require the appliance to be offline.

--gold_images_path: Directory where the database and grid gold images are staged.

This command allows the creation and installation of the out-of-place patch homes before downtime window begins. This command could be performed as part of an advance precheck to minimize the downtime required within the outage window.

racli run preinstall 
racli alter appliance 
racli update appliance