R12.2 Online Patching Cycle
Prepare Phase
- You have been asked to apply a patch and you start with the first phase “PREPARE”. Customer has recently applied two patches during the last downtime window.
- You have been asked to apply a patch and you start with the first phase “PREPARE”. Another engineer has already run the prepare phase and for some reasons the engineer did not proceed further.
- You have been asked to apply a patch and you start with the first phase “PREPARE”. Your terminal got disconnected when prepare phase was running or there was an outage and server got rebooted.
- You have been asked to apply a patch after a fresh installation of R12.2.X. So you are running PREPARE phase for the first time on the instance.
- You have been asked to apply a patch and you completed the prepare phase and now you start with the phase “APPLY”.
- You have been asked to apply two patches and you completed the prepare phase and now you start with the phase “APPLY”. The two patches are from same module so they are candidate for merge option. To reduce the patching time you are planning to merge the patches before applying.
- You have been asked to apply two patches and you completed the prepare phase and now you start with the phase “APPLY”. The two patches are from different module so they are not candidate for merge option.
- You have been asked to apply a patch and you completed the prepare phase and now you start with the phase “APPLY”. During your previous session you gave wrong inputs so ADOP exited with errors.
- Apply Phase Options ABANDON and RESTART
Cutover Phase
Cleanup Phase
Abort Phase
File System Clone Phase
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