1. Advanced Management and Monitoring for Engineered Systems
  2. Using the Engineered Systems Packs
  3. Exadata Management Pack Features
  4. Exadata Infrastructure Patching Using Fleet Maintenance
  5. Exadata Fleet Maintenance Patching Operations
  6. Deploy a Patch

Deploy a Patch

A patch is deployed to the Gold Image before an update operation.

To deploy a patch, use the following EMCLI command format based on the Exadata component to patch:

  • EMCLI command format for Storage Server: 

    emcli db_software_maintenance 
-performOperation 
-name="Deploy Exadata Storage Cell node" 
-purpose=DEPLOY_EXADATA_SOFTWARE 
-target_type=oracle_exadata -target_list="cell1,cell2" 
-input_file="data:/scratch/user_name/fpp/deployExadata.prop" 
[-start_schedule="2024/04/20 06:10"]

  • EMCLI command format for Switch: 

    emcli db_software_maintenance 
-performOperation 
-name="Deploy Exadata IB Switch node" 
-purpose=DEPLOY_EXADATA_SOFTWARE 
-target_type=oracle_si_netswitch 
-target_list="Switch1,Switch2" 
-input_file="data:/scratch/user_name/fpp/deployExadata.prop" 
[-start_schedule="2024/04/20 06:10"]

  • EMCLI command format for Database Node: 

    emcli db_software_maintenance 
-performOperation 
-name="Deploy Exadata DB node" 
-purpose=DEPLOY_EXADATA_SOFTWARE 
-target_type=host 
-target_list="DB1" 
-input_file="data:/scratch/user_name/fpp/deployExadata.prop" 
[-start_schedule="2024/04/20 06:10"]

For more information about the performOperation Deploy verb, see db_sm_performoperation_deploy in Command Line Interface Reference.

Example input file for all Exadata types:

WORKING_DIRECTORY=/tmp
PATCH_EXTRACT_LOCATION=/<path>

[ ] denotes an optional parameter.

The PATCH_EXTRACT_LOCATION path must be a fully qualified path where the Exadata patch will be stored. If you want to patch multiple Exadata targets of a similar type, then create all directories using the same path location.