11.2.0.3 Patch Bundle and opatch installation approach

Hi,
I have installed the below 11.2.0.3 (64 bit) products in my windows 2008 server
1. Oracle Grid Infrastructure for standalone server
2. Oracle database server software and created a standalone database with ASM in this home.
Now i need to apply Update 5 patch bundle and some bug fix patches.
Since there are 2 home in my server what is the right approach for applying the patch bundle and opatch ?
When i went through the patch bundle installation document i could see these 2 options
1. Patch Installation Instructions for Single Instance
2. Patch Installation Instructions for RAC
Since i have 2 homes (OraCrs11g_home1 & OracDb11g_home1 ) in my server i am not sure which patch installation option i should choose and proceed.
Can someone assist me ?
Thanks,
Ashok Kumar.G

no we have to prepare a test POC but we don't have Xterm so had to use silent mode.using VNC server is best option to install or upgrade databases/grid Infrastructure.
VNC server runs on the server and no fear of loosing network connection as in case of connecting thorugh putty.
also you can open GUI in VNC server without need of any xterm or xwindows .
So ask your SA to install VNC on your server and use it.

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Patch Bundle Deploy Remediation settings

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If I select a group of patches and want to use this as a baseline for all my machines am I best in using
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I am looking for a better way to deploy patch's then I currently have. I would like to have patch's deploy out if they have failed before. I always looked at the baseline as that way but with Novell documentation stating not to do this I have moved away from this deployment type. I would like to have Critical MS patch's deploy out and have a way to verify that the patch is deployed and if not redeploy automatically.
The largest issue I have with patch deployment is that the large part of my deployment are student computers. So if the patch process in place takes longer then a half hour then the chance is extremely great that the laptop will either be place in sleep/hibernation mode or shutdown completely. Keeping the patch bundles to a small deployment seems to be the best way to go but I have had major issues with Patch deployment showing a successful deployment only to have the patch's for that device to show a non-patched. From what I can see from another post this is a known issue with a workaround.
Richard

Patch 5391326 using opatch

Hi,
I'm applying patch 5391326 using opatch utility. I receive this error message :
OPatch detected non-cluster Oracle Home from the inventory and will patch the local system only.
Please shut down Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME
(Oracle Home = /sandbox/migration/oracle3/product/FMIS/9.2.0)
Is this system ready for updating?
Please respond Y|N >
Should I realy stop the other instances runing ? It is difficult since they are productions ?
Any solution ?
Many thanks before.

Just a side note, you should thoroughly read and follow the patch note while you do patching. Especially if there's production DB involved.
The README file come with the patch mentioned.
You should not only shutdown the instance but also other processes like listener and enterprise manager etc.
-- Before patching, completely shutdown all processes within the Oracle home. It is not recommended to restart the Oracle HTTP Server or the middle tier home until all associated database and Metadata Repository homes have been successfully patched and restarted. This is to accommodate any dependency requirements with any database objects in use.

Patch 6880880 (Upgrade Opatch Utility)

Hi Guys,
I need to apply Patch 6880880. From what I understand from the documentation and some posts about this patch is that this patch is nothing but upgrading the version of hpatch/Opatch.
When I unzip folder p6880880_101000_MSWIN-x86-64.zip, it makes a folder called Opatch (according to earlier posts I need to overwrite the existing folder OPatch folder) in the Hyperion directory .
But I am afraid to do that because the new OPatch folder resulting from unzipping the p6880880_101000_MSWIN-x86-64.zip file doesnt contain hpatch.bat.
I need hpatch.bat because I further need to apply couple of more patches (9976978 and 11794962) to fix some HFM security issue. And the patch 6880880 is pre-requisite for patches 9976978 and 11794962.
Please suggest.
Thanks

Thanks for the reply John!
You mean just rename old Opatch folder to Opatch_old and unzip the new folder to D:\Hyperion?. Or make a copy of old Opatch folder in some other directory and then just simply unzip the new Opatch folder and overwrite the existing?.
Also, I hope by doing this any existing patch that has been applied in the past doest get effected?
Thanks

Problem when install patch 733034 using OPatch

Hi everyone,
Recently I tried to install patch 733034 using OPatch 10.2.0.4.5. I've run opatch lsinventory in 733034 folder and it reported: "OPatch succedeed" at end of its report. But when tried to run opatch apply, then it raised error, like below. Could someone help me how I can solve this error?
Thanks.
====================================================================================
Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.5
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.5
Copyright (c) 2008, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oracle Home : /home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1
Central Inventory : /home/soauser/oraInventory
from : /etc/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 10.2.0.4.5
OUI version : 10.2.0.1.0
OUI location : /home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/oui
Log file location : /home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2009-01-27_16-34-05PM.log
Patch history file: /home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch_history.txt
ApplySession applying interim patch '7337034' to OH '/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1'
Running prerequisite checks...
Patch 7337034: Optional component(s) missing : [ oracle.tip.pcbpel.runtime, 10.1.3.4.0 ] , [ oracle.tip.esb.runtime, 10.1.3.4.0 ]
Prerequisite check "CheckApplicable" failed.
The details are:
Patch is no-op patch.
ApplySession failed during prerequisite checks: Prerequisite check "CheckApplicable" failed.
System intact, OPatch will not attempt to restore the system
OPatch failed with error code 74

It seems that you have wrong patch.
Maybe you should check again on metalink info about this patch.

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