Saturday, February 8, 2020

Platinum Patching Scheduling Tool - Bundle Patching Scheduling

Platinum Patching Scheduling Tool

Oracle EXADATA engineered system offers Platinum Support, This Platinum support includes free EXADATA bundle patching.

Bundle Patching: 
Bundle patching is nothing but it is patching of entire EXADATA engineered system with quarterly released patch from oracle, Exadata Bundle patching include below components

--- YUM patching 
--- CELL patching 
--- IB Switch patching 
--- DB Home patching 
--- Database patching 

This bundle patching will be done by Oracle Engineer.

Most critical and toughest part of this entire process is getting the patching slot from oracle is very difficult. This blogs make your life easy in understanding the patching scheduling via platinum scheduling tool.

Oracle Scheduling Portal:

Assuming we have 2 exadata boxes RAC1 and RAC2, Once the platinum setup the gateways and monitoring OEM they will provide you the gateway URL as mentioned below

RAC1:https://192.168.1.1 
ID: rmallikarjun
Passwd: XXXXXXXX

RAC2:https:// 192.168.1.2 
ID: rmallikarjun
Passwd: XXXXXXXX

How to schedule a patching slot with oracle?

1. Login to portal


2. Click on Patch Compliance 


3. Click on Create Patching request and provide all the details based on the patching request and which all components you want to patch select them


4. Once the above patching request template filled click on the continue button at the bottom.

You need to select patching date based on the available dates slots from the calendar shown on the window

Select the desired patch /required QFSDP release shown on the window


5. Once patching date and desired patch both are selected click on the confirm bottom at the bottom of the screen. You will see the screen that confirms your patching request.


6. Once the patching request is successful and you will get email with SR# number.



Note:

Know How to Schedule Exadata Platinum Patching slot online: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2190010.1

Add databases to Platinum OEM through gateway portal (Doc ID 2246149.1)

Credential Management in gateway release 9.X (Doc ID 2285834.1)

How to change dbsnmp/asmnsnmp password in Gateway portal (Doc ID 2251401.1)


Regards,
Mallik

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