This document discusses Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c patch management. It provides an overview of patching with OEM 12c, including roles, the software library, and My Oracle Support integration. Patch management and control with OEM 12c is also reviewed, explaining how patch plans are used to consolidate patches and map them to deployment steps. Additional tasks like creating, reviewing, and taking away lessons from patch plans are also summarized.

1. I have to patch again? :
Patch Management with
Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c

2. About
BOBBY CURTIS
• Douglasville, Georgia
• Sr. Technical Consultant
• Oracle ACE
• IOUG, ODTUG, GOUSER & RMOUG (BOD)
• Co-Author: Expert OEM12c – Apress (2013)
Twitter: @curtisbl294
Blog: http://dbasolved.com
Email: bcurtis@enkitec.com,
curtisbl@gmail.com

3. • Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Patch
Management
• Patch Management and Patch Control
• Additional Tasks
Agenda

4. • Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Patch
Management
• Patch Management and Patch Control
• Additional Tasks
Agenda

5. Overview of Patching with OEM 12c

6. • EM_PATCH_ADMINISTRATOR
• CREATE
• EDIT
• DEPLOY
• DELETE
• GRANT PRIVS
• EM_PATCH_DESIGNER
• CREATE/VIEW ANY PATCH PLAN
• EM_PATCH_OPERATOR
• DEPLOY PATCH PLANS
Overview of Patching with OEM 12c

7. Overview of Patching with OEM 12c

8. • Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Patch
Management
• Patch Management and Patch Control
• Additional Tasks
Agenda

9. • Software Library
• Patching
• My Oracle Support
Patch Management and Patch Control

10. • Core feature of OEM 12c
• Stores software (Entities/Directives)
• Agent Software
• Patches
• Virtual Appliance Images
• Gold Images (OVM)
• Application Software
• Scripts
• Maintains
• Versions
• Maturity Levels
Software Library

11. • At least 1 upload location
• Locations Supported
• OMS Shared Filesystem
• OMS Agent Filesystem
• Referenced File Location
• HTTP
• NFS
• Agent
• Decided on location during
planning
• Release 3
• SWLIB
Software Library : Setup

12. Software Library : Administration

13. Software Library : Administration
• Directories as numbers
• Reason?
• By Design
• Ensures that SWLIB is not modified
outside SWLIB Admin
• Location can be changed
• Migrate and Remove Button (Admin
Page)
• Size?
• Depends on usage
• Initial: 2G-50G

14. Patching: Traditional
• OPatch
• Oracle Provided Tool
• Difficult to identify what patches need to be rolled out
• OraInventory backed
• Limited support for pre- and post- scripts
• Customer Scripts
• User Created
• Difficult to identify what patches need to be rolled out
• Limited to single server
• Maintenance overhead for new versions
• Deployment Procedures
• Default procedures for deploying patches
• Confusion over which procedure
• Limited validation
• Difficult to handle patch conflicts

15. Patching : Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
• Integrated patching
• My Oracle Support (MOS)
• recommendations, search patches, and roll out patches all using the same user
interface
• Complete
• end-to-end orchestration of patching using patch plans
• automated selection of deployment procedures
• analysis of the patch conflicts
• minimal manual effort is required.
• Clear division of responsibilities (Roles)
• Designers - focus on creating patch plans, testing them on a test system, and
saving them as patch templates
• Operators - focus on creating patch plans out of the template for rolling out
the patches on a production system

16. Patching : Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
• Easy review of patches for environment
• validation of patch plans
• automatic receipt of patches to resolve validation issues.
• Patch Templates
• Saving successfully analyzed or deployable patch plans
• Out-of-place patching
• Stand-alone (single-instance) database targets / Oracle Grid
Infrastructure targets that are part of Oracle Exadata.
• Flexible patching options
• rolling and parallel, both in offline and online mode.

17. Patching : My Oracle Support (MOS)
• Integrates MOS with OEM
• Anyone with a valid CSI

18. • Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Patch
Management
• Patch Management and Patch Control
• Additional Tasks
Agenda

19. NOTE: Cannot add patch sets
and patches to the same
patch plan
Additional Tasks: Patch Plans
• Consolidated list of patch(s)
• Apply to a target or group of targets
• Map to key steps of deployment process
• Two Forms
• Patch Sets
• Patch (one-off)
• Interim patches
• Diag Patchs
• PSUs
• CPUs/SPUs
NOTE: Patch Plans not available
for hardware; GI patch for
Exadata, only 1 patch per plan

20. Additional Tasks: Creating Patch Plans

21. Additional Tasks: Creating Patch Plans

22. Additional Tasks: Reviewing Patch Plans

23. • %emd_emstagedir%
• Directory where OEM will
stage patching software
Additional Tasks: Reviewing Patch Plans

24. Additional Tasks: Reviewing Patch Plans

25. Additional Tasks: Reviewing Patch Plans

26. Additional Tasks: Reviewing Patch Plans

27. • 3 roles for patching within OEM
• Software Library is the core of OEM12c
• Integration with My Oracle Support (MOS)
• Patch Plans are useful
Take Away

29. Thank You for Attending
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Twitter: @curtisbl294
Email: bcurtis@enkitec.com
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30. About
BOBBY CURTIS
• Douglasville, Georgia
• Sr. Technical Consultant
• Oracle ACE
• IOUG, ODTUG, GOUSER & RMOUG (BOD)
• Co-Author: Expert OEM12c – Apress (2013)
Twitter: @curtisbl294
Blog: http://dbasolved.com
Email:
bcurtis@enkitec.com, curtisbl@gmail
.com