CRS patching and DB availability

DB version : 11.1.0.7, 11.2
Platform : AIX 6.1
Number of Nodes: 2
When you patch CRS_HOME (GRID home) on either nodes, is there any way to keep the Databases registered in it accessible?

when you are planning to upgrade the CRS_HOME then there is 100 percent downtime for the databases which are part of the cluster .. So you have to plan it such a way that you can do the upgradation with minimal downtime..All the cluster services and other associated services will be brought down..That is why you will be upgrading each node at a time and the database at once..Cheers!

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UK Public sector : Teachers Pension Patch and Functional Setup

Hi
I have a query regarding the functional setup for the above. (I am assuming / expecting answer from those who have done this setup already and they know/gone thorugh the patch readme file )
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The patch readme says ,
Once the Formula has retrieved the pension contribution Rate, it needs to be
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FTE Salary/Amount
The Annual salary is the Gross Full Time Equivalent salary based on which the
band should be decided. There can be multiple elements per assignment that
could be populating this value and each element may have different
configurations for example:
a. Element may have annual value from which a period value is calculated
b. Period value to be paid
The above this can be further classified based on
a. usage of working pattern or working hours
b. Full time salary
c. Part time salary.
a. One time payment on which Annualisation may not be applied but FTE should
be applied.
b. One time payment on which Annualisation may be applied but FTE should
not be applied.
c. Annual Value on which FTE should be applied.
d. Annual Value on which FTE should not be applied
There are many more variants to the scenarios described above.
To achieve the calculation of the Gross Annual Full Time Equivalent salary
for all possible scenarios the seeded element FTE Annualised Pay should be
used by the customer.
In order for the Pension contribution rate to be determined, the FTE annual
salary effective at the period in question, must be available.
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that customer uses for paying the teachers as it would be needed to determine
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individual element formula.
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Suggested changes in elements formula for determining Annual Full Time value:
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Hi
I recently did an evaluation of this patch, and I did get it to work; however, in order to do so I needed to amend some other formulas for e.g. calculation of salary, so that the annualised FTE figure was returned from the formula. This was then referenced in the formula result rules for the annual salary element, to feed that new result to the seeded element provided in the patch ('FTE Annualised Pay'). That then fed the balance.
It's a major headache as you will have to similarly amend all formulas/result rules pertaining to elements that could form part of the reckonable pay for this calculation.
Where I am, we won't be using it as we had to come up with our own solution to stand any chance of being 'legal' in time for April.
Hope this is of use
Clive

Inventory says that Patch is not available but regedit has the patch.

Hello,
Ours is an HFM 11.1.1.3 and 3 months back we applied HFM 50 patch on it.
Last week when I was applying HFM 500 patch we noticed that when I fired "hpatch lsinventory" it did not had HFM 50 patch in it, but when I saw in the regedit I was able to see HFM 50 patch in it and also I could see HFM 50 patch in HFM client.
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ACS 5.2 Solution Engine Patches and Installs

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Thanks
Marco

Hi Marco,
Here is the link for downloading ACS5.2 patches :
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Patches and SunSolve

I have already mentioned in a couple of previous postings that, I am trying to install
studio 11 on a system on which Forte Developer 7 is already installed.
My question is, if I install studio 11 , is it still necessary for me to run
"version libC*" command under /usr/lib directory in order to check whether latest
patches are installed or not ?
I am under the impression that : I need not , as I am installing Sun studio 11 which is
the latest studio available. Can any body please confirm this ?
In case I am supposed to check whether latest patches are installed or not, the document says
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- In 6.1 , if the live master happens to be the backup master, what happens when the FM goes down for patching? Can the FM only go down when primary master is the live master? We have our fault tolerance set to auto ( either masters can take over as live ).
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Hi:
I would like to notify this forum that a free evaluation release of
Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) 2.1 Beta is now available for downloading
at our public web site.
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http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/embedded/index.jsp
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Current System:
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PL/SQL Release 10.1.0.4.0 - Production
CORE 10.1.0.4.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.1.0.4.0 - Production
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thanks.

Shouldn't the patches be available through EM GridControl? We are planning some downtime this afternoon and I'd like to get the database up to the most recent release.
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Hello All,
I'm wondering if anyone has toyed around with the PREEMPT_RT patch using the Arch concept to simplify the processes to accommodate non-critical motion control across wireless or local area networks as a server for applications such as security cameras, thresholds, landscape automation, environmental controls, etc. There are also several commercial applications that might be reasonably run through the hybrid RT capabilities of a adapted timer and a preempted Linux kernel with an ultra-lean Arch config.
I'm a newbie and interested in finding out what I don't know before I throw a bunch of time at a flawed concept. I've been linux lurking for quite a while hoping to find a really lean operating system and overhead that retains the dual characteristics of general motion control and networking. These could be used in any number of closed loop commutation and synchronization schemes to afford relatively accurate positioning at long distances and communicate the result.
Obviously this could be accomplished with enough money to buy gear and canned (black box) applications but the cost of repetitive installation pales even the bravest entrepreneur. So, the search continues.
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Let me say up front... personally I have no idea. You could always simply try it and see if it works!
That said, my reason for posting is to say, you might get better traffic on this question in another part of the forum, since this has very little to do with differing architectures. Your best bet might actually be the Networking, Server, and Protection area since your basically talking about setting up a server designed to control security cameras, or the Kernel & Hardware Issues area, since you are asking specifically about a kernel patch.
I got curious and googled the patch you're talking about... I am fairly sure it should work for Arch, since it seems to be very distro agnostic.
I am curious about why you feel the rt patch would help with motion control over a network... it is aimed at working with microsecond timings, than longer term workloads. RT is only really useful (right now) for really short units of work in response to real time events. Basically, if you want to hit a bug's wing that was spotted on a camera with a high powered, very narrow focused laser, then an RT kernel might help you. An RT kernel is aimed at starting up responses really fast. Unless you are responding to something captured by the cameras, and less than a tenth of a millisecond is necessary to that response, a normal "real-fast" kernel might be a better idea.
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The RT-patchset might actually be more work than strictly needed for the concept you're working on.
It seems to me, and I am far from a Guru or an expert, that what you are hunting for is a motion capture application that can easily be network controlled and is open-source. You need a low overhead OS to give all of the system resources to the motion capturing program. Arch is good for low overhead, and there is the package zoneminder in the AUR (Also with the zmviewer-svn that adds a client capacity to the suite, meaning you can look at/control them from another computer).
You may want to look at Linux-From-Scratch to make an absolutely basic system on the hardware you wish to use for this enterprise. You can strip out all of the unneeded drivers from the kernel, locales, manpages, build tools, and all of the other cruft that is needed by the average install of any Linux OS meant to run on diverse groups of hardware.
By the way, the Linux-From-Scratch would allow you to custom compile and thoroughly test each update before sending them out as binaries to your customers, as well as allowing you to do complete upgrades rather than piecemeal updates to each program on the system as they come available. (Business like the set time table for releases because of the lower amount of downtime for the critical systems.)
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I run and maintain a lot of Lync and OCS servers, and I have a significant gripe about patch management for the Lync server product. The gripe is that we have had the same KB article since Lync 2010 CU1 for patching.
I come from an Exchange background, so I am used to the service pack (SP) and rollup (RU) release system.
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Here's a
blog highlighting CU4 was out, same KB there.
Here's a
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Here's another blog announcing the CU2 release, same KB.
Here's
another blog, announcing CU1, same KB.
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When we are patching, many times I have staged my update downloads a few days before and found that the day or week of my patching that there had been more recent updates.
Someone who downloaded Lync Server CU5 updates a month ago is running an older version than someone who downloaded Lync Server CU5 updates today. Granted, I know the KB article shows a different "last modified" that you can key on, but generally speaking
this seems pretty non-standard for MS for release notification.
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And one more thing - I know you have a Lync
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Right now, we rely have relied on third party bloggers for over a year - thanks to all you community members who do this!
Anyone else noticed or taken issue with this? I searched and didn't see much, but it has burned me a lot.
RSS feed to keep you up to date on patch releases
TechNet: Updates Resource Center for Lync
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hi,
i need to know the exact difference between the patch that is available online and the upgradation of oracle. there is a patch 14 available for oracle 11.5.9 available. what does it do. is it similar to upgrading the oracle installation to a higher version.
please reply as soon as possible.
thank you in advance.

Would you please elaborate more. What do you mean by the patch this is available only? What is patch 14?
If you are running on 11.5.9 and want to upgrade to 11.5.10.2, then you need to apply 11.5.10.2 maintenance pack. Maintenance pack is a consolidation of all the mini packs for all products and all the family packs for the entire oracle applications.
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Planning to install 11gR1 RAC a 2 nodes on HPUX IA64 and there are several architecture options:
Option 1: same owner and one single home (home1 = crs asm db)
pros - easier to patch on single home
cons - patch level may be required at crs level but not allowed at db level because of E-Business Suite certification constraints
Option 2: same owner and 2 homes (home1 = crs / home2 = asm db)
pros - one less home to upgrade
cons - ?
Option 3: same owner and 2 homes (home 1 = crs asm / home2 = db)
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Option 4: same owner and 3 homes (crs home / asm home / db home)
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I've made my decision to use Option 2 and here's why...
Excerpt from Known issues documented in
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We have recently upgraded to ECC 6.0 , 64bit Unicode SQL Server 2005.
Next project underway is to migrate Peoplesoft into SAP (HCM).
My question to all Canadians out there is what strategy is anyone using in order to ensure that ALL HCM (Payroll) Patches are applied according to Tax Requirements etc..
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Hello,
I agree with Eric that your HR people should be asking for these, they're quite different than the other patches and it shouldn't be your responsibility.
They definitely should be doing the legal change patches for compliance with Revenue Canada, which come out twice a year (mid-year and year-end) in a draft and then a final transport. If you use the draft transport to get a jump on testing be prepared to apply lots of notes as they refine it for the final transport.
If you haven't heard from your HR people by June 1st or December 1st you might want to give them a gentle reminder.
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Crs,css and evm deamons in Oracle RAC

Can anyone please explain me the basic functionality and purpose of crs,css and evm deamons in Oracle RAC.
Read some where that ocssd deamon performs cluster configuration information in OCR disk......is this ocssd deamon alias is css ???

The Oracle Clusterware processes on UNIX-based systems are:
■ crsd—Performs high availability recovery and management operations such as
maintaining the OCR and managing application resources. This process runs as
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process restarts automatically upon failure.
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manage FAN server callouts.
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■ oprocd—Process monitor for the cluster. Note that this process only appears on
platforms that do not use vendor clusterware with Oracle Clusterware.

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