Questions about patching in eBS 12.1.3

Hi everyone,
Currently, we have an installation based in 12.1.1. fresh install which was evolved to 12.1.3 althougth pacthing.. it was done by freelance and now we need to install a few patches by functional problems.
So, we need to solve a few doubts:
1.- I suposse that we should to apply patches with adpatch.. Is it correct?
2.- We have down all services in application tier but ... do we need to put maintenance mode with adadmin in application tier?
3.- What parameters should we use with adpatch? we have one application tier and one database tier (apply=Y, pre-install mode =N, ...)
4.- Does it exist any pack for patching and clonning with any tools as OEM? I think that it exist and it could improve our work.
Best Regards,
Ricardo

Hi,
PFB answers:
1.- I suposse that we should to apply patches with adpatch.. Is it correct?Application patch using adpatch and db patch using opatch. Patch readme will guide you.
2.- We have down all services in application tier but ... do we need to put maintenance mode with adadmin in application tier?It is not mandatory to bring down services but you should bring instance in maintenance mode.
Good practice is to bring down services and put application in maintenance mode but this is not mandatroy. You can use hotpatch option to apply patch when instance is up and running and without enabling maintenance mode. This is called hot patching and is benificial for live when you cant have downtime.
Check below guide for more on this.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B34956_01/current/acrobat/oa_patching_r12.pdf
3.- What parameters should we use with adpatch? we have one application tier and one database tier (apply=Y, pre-install mode =N, ...)
Just type adpatch without giving any option.
Check below guide for more on this.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B34956_01/current/acrobat/oa_patching_r12.pdf
4.- Does it exist any pack for patching and clonning with any tools as OEM? I think that it exist and it could improve our work.? >>>> Cloning is possible through OAM
check below MOS:-
EBS 11i Creating a Clone using Oracle Application Manager (OAM Clone) [ID 398619.1]

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Well, I found a way to make it work. Basically you shutdown and detach the zones (or zones). I then delete the zone configuration. At this point, you would think luupgrade would stop complaining and just work. It doesn't. It will still fail at this point. The only way I could get it to work is in the global zone I had to do the following:
mv /etc/zones /etc/zones-ORIG
mv /zones /zones-ORIG <<< probably not needed but whatever ...
lucreate -n S10u7zfsPATCHED -p rpool <<< So at this point both my active BE and the ABE both have effectively no zone configurationRan luupgrade and, poof, it works:
luupgrade -t -n S10u7zfsPATCHED -O -t -s . ./patch_order
Validating the contents of the media <.>.
The media contains 138 software patches that can be added.
Mounting the BE .
zoneadm: global: could not get state: No such zone configured
zoneadm: failed to get zone data
Adding patches to the BE .
Transition old-style patching.
Checking installed patches...
Patch 120900-04 has already been applied.
See patchadd(1M) for instructions.
WARNING: Skipping patch 120900-04Still I'm wondering why did I have to get so extreme to make this work ... after detaching and deleting the zone configuration why would luupgrade still complain about a zone which effectively no longer existed. I looked in /etc/zones and could find nothing related to my original zone. Where is luupgrade getting this almost "ghost" zone configuration information ?

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Is there a better and supported solution for this?
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2. Shutdown application tier. Verify that all concurrent managers have been shutdown. If not, kill the processes manually
3. As apps user run cmclean.sql
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Is there a better solution for this?
3) Database changes from ARCHIVELOG mode to nonarchivelog mode in the target system. Is there anyway to prevent this?
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Thanks for your answers in advance.
BR,
TH

1) Home page cannot be accessed as application tier $CONTEXT_FILE still contains "https" and ssl termination settings.
Workaround:
Modify (with text editor) Application Tier $CONTEXT_FILE as follows.
<webentryurlprotocol oa_var="s_webentryurlprotocol" customized="yes">http</webentryurlprotocol>
<sslterminator oa_var="s_enable_sslterminator">#</sslterminator>
<login_page oa_var="s_login_page" customized="yes">http://myhost.mydomain.com:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin</login_page>
<externURL oa_var="s_external_url" customized="yes">http://myhost.mydomain.com:8000</externURL>
Run AutoConfig and start application tier.
Is there a better and supported solution for this?No, you need to edit the context file manually and run AutoConfig.
2) Concurrent managers do not work correctly as they have still old node names (used in PCP in the source system). Workaround used:
1. Logon to EBS web GUI and remove all nodes from all concurrent managers.
2. Shutdown application tier. Verify that all concurrent managers have been shutdown. If not, kill the processes manually
3. As apps user run cmclean.sql
4. Restart application tier
Is there a better solution for this?You are following the best approach. You could update the node details from the backend if you want.
3) Database changes from ARCHIVELOG mode to nonarchivelog mode in the target system. Is there anyway to prevent this?By default, Rapid Clone will create the target database in noarchivelog mode.
4) Also, we would like to perform a full clone (app + db tiers) from production without shutting down the application. Is this possible? What would be the best documents to describe this? In Production, we have Oracle Data Guard setup with physical standby as per "Oracle Tech Note: Business Continuity for Oracle E-Business Release 12 Using Oracle 11g Physical Standby Database [ID 1070033.1]". This can be used when performing a hot clone for the database, right? Correct.
What about the application tier? Steps described in 406982.1 include running AutoConfig in which application tier should be down. Does the application need to be down when running "Maintain Snapshot Information"?You can copy the application tier node files while the application is up. And, you do not need to shutdown the application to run "Maintain Snapshot Information".
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Thanks,
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Folks,
Hello. This post is the continue for previous post "Questions about Installing EBS R12".
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Please update the original thread instead of creating new one -- Re: Questions about Installing EBS R12

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Dear all,
My customer wants to upgrade EBS from 12.1.1 to 12.1.3.
He has questions about module OTL and AGIS.
He wants to know:
1. Apply OTL&AGIS on 12.1.1, then upgrade to 12.1.3
2. Upgrade 12.1.3, finish all post upgrade of 12.1.3, then apply patch to add OTL&AGIS module
Which one should be correct?
If neither of them, please advise.
Also, please post the note/doc number.
Thanks in adv,
Jackie

Jackie Han wrote:
Dear all,
My customer wants to upgrade EBS from 12.1.1 to 12.1.3.
He has questions about module OTL and AGIS.
He wants to know:
1. Apply OTL&AGIS on 12.1.1, then upgrade to 12.1.3
2. Upgrade 12.1.3, finish all post upgrade of 12.1.3, then apply patch to add OTL&AGIS module
Which one should be correct?
If neither of them, please advise.
Also, please post the note/doc number.
Thanks in adv,
JackieUpgrade to 12.1.3 then apply the latest patchsets.
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Hi All,
Happy New Year.
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The questions I have are:
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Hi,
Here are my answers you can refer to:
1. Firstly, I’d like to explain , we can use connection status to check our Exchange server version from Outlook client:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/outlook-help/determine-the-version-of-microsoft-exchange-server-my-account-connects-to-HA010117038.aspx
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2. We can directly update RTM version to SP3 , and the update will take an additional 30 minutes or longer per database.
3. Since Exchange 2010 SP3 makes updates to the Active Directory schema, we need prepare AD domain schema. However, it will automatically prepare AD and the domain when you install the update.
For more information, you can refer to the following article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj965774(v=exchg.141).aspx
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Angela
Angela Shi
TechNet Community Support

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i have a really quick question about LVM, been trying to search but can't really find the answer
here's the scenario
i have my new quad core phenom system running arch, with an LVM volume on a few 1TB drives. i was overclocking it the other night and running geekbench, pulled 8300 flat anyway, not too bad since i started at 4900 on the arch kernel, and then hit 6800 with a custom zen patched kernel. anyhow, before i get carried away, what i want to do, is slap a spare drive and install windows 7 for a wider suite of benchmarks. but i'm worried that the drives with the lvm volume may not go in the same order when i pull the windows drive out.
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Hi,
I just recently learned of Oracle's APEX and have a few questions about using it.
Can I use APEX with express, standard, and enterprise editions of 10g and 11g?
Are all of these free to use?

You might want to read about APEX rather than jumping into questions that are reasonably well documented. Info at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/index.html
Your specific questions:
1) Apex is a package that can be installed into any properly licensed database.
2) The price for the production license of the database varies by edition.
The price for Express Edition is $0 for use in production. Part of the cost for that edition is 'no Oracle Support based support, no patches, data volume limitation, etc.'

A few questions about how ZPM works.

We have patch management (in ZCM 11.2.2), but honestly don't use it much. I have a few questions about how it works that might make me use it more, if I understand it more.
If I deploy a patch (or a set of patches), it creates a bundle for that deployment. That bundle seems to include actions that deploy the actual patch bundles (correct?). Do I have to recreate a new deployment bundle every time I want to push a new patch? i.e. If I push a Java update, and a month later, a new one comes out, do I build out a new bundle with the new patch in it, or do I modify the old one?
Once the patch is deployed, can I safely delete that deployment bundle, or should they just pile up?
Is there a way to "auto-approve" patches? Lets say I always want a group of machines to have the latest Adobe Flash Player patches. Can I set up ZPM to automatically cache and push the latest patches for a specific product, or do I have to manually remediate each patch? (I'm thinking of how MS's WSUS does "auto-approval")
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Originally Posted by adrockk
We have patch management (in ZCM 11.2.2), but honestly don't use it much. I have a few questions about how it works that might make me use it more, if I understand it more.
If I deploy a patch (or a set of patches), it creates a bundle for that deployment. That bundle seems to include actions that deploy the actual patch bundles (correct?). Do I have to recreate a new deployment bundle every time I want to push a new patch? i.e. If I push a Java update, and a month later, a new one comes out, do I build out a new bundle with the new patch in it, or do I modify the old one?
Once the patch is deployed, can I safely delete that deployment bundle, or should they just pile up?
Is there a way to "auto-approve" patches? Lets say I always want a group of machines to have the latest Adobe Flash Player patches. Can I set up ZPM to automatically cache and push the latest patches for a specific product, or do I have to manually remediate each patch? (I'm thinking of how MS's WSUS does "auto-approval")
I see most packages aren't cached in list, but occasionally, a patch is cached without me touching it. Why? Can I change what gets automatically cached?
Thanks for any help/answers you can provide.
-Adam
For #1, (assuming you're not using baselines), you would check the new version of the patch (vulnerability) and do a new deployment.
#2 - once you're satisified that the machines are deployed (or the best to your ability) you can delete the DEPLOYMENT package. It doesn't delete the actual vulnerability bundles to my knowledge. That's why it's a good idea to name your bundle deployments with something meaningful, IMO (and maybe include a nice desription).
#3 - currently I don't believe this is possible. I know you can probably configure it to auto-download the patches, but not auto-deploy everything. Given the propensity for software to wreck other things (hello MS .NET patches), this is probably not a good idea. At least I'd never auto-download and auto-deploy any patches without testing them first, and certainly take my servers a little more cautiously than my workstations.
#4 - I think you can configure what's cached, but I could be wrong.
I know there's a lot of improvements coming in the pipeline, and it doesn't hurt to "vote" for your enhancements via the enhancement system (more work for Shaun--haha)
--Kevin

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