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Patch Wizard

Patching Topics

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Objectives

After completing this module, you should be able to do the following:

• Access Patch Wizard

• Download the Patch Information Bundle

• Define the stage directory

• Define patch filters

• Submit Patch Wizard requests

• View Patch Wizard requests

• Analyze Patch Wizard results


Module Overview

This module consists of the following topics:

• Accessing Patch Wizard

• Patch Wizard main page

• Patch Wizard setup



• Patch Wizard requests - submit

• Patch Wizard requests - view

• Patch Wizard results


Patch Wizard

Patch Wizard:

• Patch Wizard reports which patches update Oracle Applications at the current code level and which update to a new code level

• Compares the patches you have already applied against a list of all recommended Oracle Applications patches

• Does not report on all available patches

• Reports only on the patches that provide pro-active maintenance

• Downloads and merges and analyzes impact of patches


Patch Wizard

Patch Wizard consists of:

• A user interface

• Concurrent programs

• Database tables


Accessing Patch Wizard


Patch Wizard Main Page


Patch Wizard Main Page - Results


Patch Wizard

Before using Patch Wizard:

• Identify a staging directory for Patch Wizard files

• Set up defaults and other preferences

• Download the Patch Information Bundle


Downloading the Patch Information Bundle

• You can download the Patch Information Bundle manually from OracleMetaLink or through the OAM Patch Wizard interface

• You must enter your OracleMetaLink user name and password to download 1234567_R12.AD.A

• Download 1234567_R12.AD.A to the staging directory


Patch Wizard Preferences Page


Define Patch Filters

• The Patch Information Bundle contains information for all recommended patches for all products

• If the Patch Wizard were to compare patches in the Applied Patches database against all metadata in this file, the number of recommended patches in the report would be large, and the results might not be useful

• To avoid this, Patch Wizards provides filters so that only those patch types and products in the metadata that apply to your system are included in the comparison





• There are three pre-seeded filters: – New Codelevels– Recommended Patches– Recommended Patches and New Codelevels

• Patch Wizard creates these three filters by choosing only the high-priority patches that apply to the set of products you have licensed on your system


Recommended Patches

From the Recommend Patches page of Patch Wizard, you can submit requests. There are two submit types associated with the Recommend Patches page:

• Create (Patch) Recommendations

• Analyze Specific Patches


Recommend Patches


Recommend Patches


Download Patches


Download Patches


Patch Wizard Job Status


Job Status


Recommended Patches Results


Patch Impact Analysis

• The Patch Impact Analysis tells which products and files are affected by a particular patch

• You can analyze which files are new, which files are changed, and which files are ignored when applying the patch

• You can view prerequisite patches required by this patch, and also read the readme file for each patch


Patch Impact Analysis


Module Summary

In this module, you should have learned how to do the following:

• Access Patch Wizard



• Submit Patch Wizard requests

• View Patch Wizard requests

• Analyze Patch Wizard results


Module Discussion

• Describe the contents of the Patch Information Bundle

• Describe the Patch Wizard setup steps

• What are the advantages of defining custom patch filters?

• What can you determine by analyzing the impact of applying a patch?


Module Practice

• Defining the staging directory

• Defining patch filters

• Uploading the Patch Information Bundle

• Submitting and viewing requests

• Analyzing patch impact results

Education

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