MAINTENANCE WIZARD USERS MUST DOWNLOAD PATCHES MANUALLY UNTIL RELEASE 2.18

Due to a recent change in security policy Maintenance Wizard is unable to download patches automatically from within the tool. This issue is being worked and should be resolved very soon.
Until this download issue is resolved, customers will need to download patches manually and stage them into the patch directory defined by the environment variable EOF_PATCH_TOP for the Maintenance Wizard login.
This issue effects all releases of Maintenance Wizard to 2.17
Please feel free to post any questions you may have on this issue here.
Dave Heisler
Oracle
Edited by: user702507 on Nov 29, 2010 7:48 AM
Edited by: user702507 on Dec 3, 2010 12:17 PM

All pre-req steps / patches should be defined as steps in the Maintenance Wizard tool. The only manual part should be downloading the patch which is normally done in the setup phase of the step. If you are coming across pre-requiste steps that are not defined in the Maintenance Wizard tool, please update this thread with them so can discuss.
NOTE: Any step that does not have a RUN button within it has been defined as a manual step that you must execute manually outside the Maintenance Wizard tool and then mark the step as completed manually.

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11i to R12 upgrade and Maintenance Wizard and the Maintenance Wizard Forum

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And it is referenced a couple times in the 11i forum.
But that's not much press considering Oracle's description below.
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430734.1 - Maintenance Wizard Users Guide
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FYI,
I am investigating what happened to the Maintenance Wizard forum. I was not alerted or consulted before it was moved to an "archived" location.
I will provide an update here once I find out how to get the situation corrected.
In the meantime, please use the other support channels (this forum, FAQ, iTAR's, etc.) for Maintenance Wizard questions and problems.
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PS - To answer Tom's imbedded question (What I'm actually trying to confirm is exactly what OAS or iAS or OC4J to use with it.), please look at the Installation Guide (note 329476.1). In step 2 of the prerequisites, it states:
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I am getting the below error , when i tried to download patches from Maintenance optimizer. Please help me to resolve the issue ASAP.
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Does anyone out there uses the Maintenance Wizard?
I want to use it to automate patching on several environments, and it seems that the tool is not very flexible. I am unable to create a empty project, It only creates projects with preseeded tasks. And I cant find where to add a patch to be applied automatically by the tool. It seems that the tool can only add scripts as custom steps.
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Bumping this thread to the top.
Anyone out there would like to use this tool for generic patching too?
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I'm about to upgrade from R12.1.1 from 11i. Please let me know if anyone has done this using "Oracle Maintenance Wizard." and is it useful. I haven' used this before .
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Looks like I need some help on the patch downloading in 2.18 as well. I ran the utiltity to make sure my MOS login was correct but the patch dowlonad is not working in the Prep for Upgrade/Create Merged patch for Rel 11i - Part 1. I've also tried downloading a patch by itself in the utilities but it won't work either. The errors reported don't tell me much but the log says to have to have the admin run the command manually. When I do I'm getting a java exception. Do you have any idea where I can start troubleshooting this?
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/u01/mwiz/mwizdb/10.2.0/jre/*/bin/java -Dbug_number="5259121" -Daction="download_file" -Dplatform="46" -Ddownload_directory="./" oracle.support.mw.AruExecutor
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/support/mw/AruExecutor
ls: p5259121_11i_.zip: No such file or directory
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https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/XMLAPI/download_patch/p5382135_11i_GENERIC.zip?aru=8623346&email=<myemailhere>&userid=O-<myemailhere>&patch_file=p5382135_11i_GENERIC.zip
[1] 26587
[2] 26588
-bash: https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/XMLAPI/download_patch/p5382135_11i_GENERIC.zip?aru=8623346: No such file or directory
[3] 26589
[1] Exit 127 https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/XMLAPI/download_patch/p5382135_11i_GENERIC.zip?aru=8623346
[3]+ Done userid=O-<myemailhere>
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Downloading patches through solution manager

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thanks in advance.
Regards,
Swapnil Lakhe

Hi Swapnil,
"Markus Döhr" wrote in another thread the following. Maybe it helps you going on.
Best regards
Wolfgang
wrote by Markus Döhr----
Go manually to http://service.sap.com/patches and select all you need there and put them in your download basket.
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New Maintenance Wizard released for Upgrades to R12!

Maintenance Wizard Version 2.01 was released on 31-MAY-2007!
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While creating a maintenance transaction in maintenance optimizer after the selection of product version and logical component. I am facing error message "No S user is assigned to your user"
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Yes this is what I do, but still receive "Insufficient privileges to write to that location". So I am forced to use normal file system to be able to continue.
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ias-instance id=EnterpriseManager0.uxlpgrid01
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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no port available from the port range
no port available from the port range
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none
ias-component/process-type/process-set:
OC4J/OC4J_EMPROV/default_island
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--> Process (pid=0)
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no port available from the port range
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none
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------------------------------------------------+---------
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------------------------------------------------+---------
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ERROR: Exception in downloadPatch problem - Oracle Maintenance Wizard.

Hello gurus
I am having problems using the system to automatically download patches in manitenence wizard, when the application tries to automatically download the patch that is not missing it, so asking you to download manually returning the following message:
Checking for patch 3480000 for LINUX platform in / u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/eof/patches ...
Not found on the local node, Trying to download the patch from updates.oracle.com
Download get_from_url_1703_3480000.sh Running script in / u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/eof/patches
ERROR - failed Looks like ftp, see p3480000 ls-l \ * (above) of EOF_PATCH_TOP
EOF_PATCH_TOP = / u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/eof/patches
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================================================== =================
1) Have the administrator try running the ftp script manually.
OR
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ERROR: Failed to download patch 3480000.
Go to Metalink and manually download patch 3480000 for platform
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Has anyone encountered ese error??
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Go to Metalink and manually download patch 3480000 for platform
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MW Download patch

Does this feature work? From the script it looks like it was using updates.oracle.com ftp site - which is now defunct. Are there plans for a fix?

/apps/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/eof/scripts/COMMON/eof_patch11i.sh patch=10265508 menu=setup forcedownload=y NULL DEBUG_UI=N
SUMMARY unique NODES DETERMINED - based on NODE, USER, and APPL_TOP
apps
ACTION: setup on node: apps, patch=10265508, driver=
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Running Download script get_from_url_1703_10265508.sh in /apps/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/eof/patches
ERROR - Looks like ftp failed, see ls -l p10265508\* (above) of EOF_PATCH_TOP
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===================================================================
1) Have the administrator try running the ftp script manually.
OR
2) set HOME/.netrc, then try Script: /apps/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/eof/log/INSTANCE_1703/get_from_url_1703_10265508.sh
ACTION - Exiting due to failed download of 10265508 - go to My Oracle Support on Metalink
and check the Status of this patch to confirm it has not been obsoleted by another one.
Checking existence of patch: 10265508 on apps node in /apps/applmgr/11i/patches
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