Update a Patch

It is recommended that before you perform a patch update, you first perform a validation.

Topics:

Validate a Patch

EMCLI command format to perform a validation based on Exadata type patch:

EMCLI command format for Storage Server:

emcli db_software_maintenance 
-performOperation 
-name="Update Storage Cell node" 
-purpose="UPDATE_EXADATA_SOFTWARE" 
-target_list="Cel1,Cell2" 
-target_type="oracle_exadata"
-input_file="data:/user_name/fppinstallfest/updateExadata.prop"

EMCLI command format for Switch:

emcli db_software_maintenance 
-performOperation 
-name="Update IB Switch node" 
-purpose="UPDATE_EXADATA_SOFTWARE" 
-target_list="IB1,IB2" 
-target_type="oracle_si_netswitch" 
-input_file="data:/user_name/fppinstallfest/updateExadata.prop"

EMCLI command format for Database Node:

emcli db_software_maintenance 
-performOperation 
-name="Update DB node" 
-purpose="UPDATE_EXADATA_SOFTWARE" 
-target_list="exadatabase2.subdom.example.com" 
-target_type="host" 
-input_file="data:/user_name/fppinstallfest/updateExadata.prop"

For more information about the performOperation Update verb, see db_sm_performoperation_update in Command Line Interface Reference.

Example input file that contains all the required information:

WORKING_DIRECTORY=/tmp
fppOptions={"eval": "true"}