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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
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Module Overview
This module consists of the following topics:
• Accessing Patch Wizard
• Patch Wizard main page
• Patch Wizard setup
• Define the stage directory
• Define patch filters
• Patch Wizard requests - submit
• Patch Wizard requests - view
• Patch Wizard results
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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
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Patch Wizard
Patch Wizard consists of:
• A user interface
• Concurrent programs
• Database tables
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Accessing Patch Wizard
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Patch Wizard Main Page
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Patch Wizard Main Page - Results
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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
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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
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Patch Wizard Preferences Page
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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
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Define Patch Filters
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Define Patch Filters
• 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
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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
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Recommend Patches
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Recommend Patches
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Download Patches
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Download Patches
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Patch Wizard Job Status
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Job Status
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Recommended Patches Results
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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
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Patch Impact Analysis
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Module Summary
In this module, you should have learned how to do the following:
• Access Patch Wizard
• Define the stage directory
• Define patch filters
• Submit Patch Wizard requests
• View Patch Wizard requests
• Analyze Patch Wizard results
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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?
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Module Practice
• Defining the staging directory
• Defining patch filters
• Uploading the Patch Information Bundle
• Submitting and viewing requests
• Analyzing patch impact results