EM13c- Applying System Patches with the OMS Patcher

May 4, 2016 Kellyn

The OMS Patcher is a newer patching mechanism for the OMS specifically, (I know, the name kind of gave it away…) Although there are a number of similarities to Oracle’s infamous OPatch, I’ve been spending a lot of time on OTN’s support forums and via email, assisting folks as they apply the first system patch to 13.1.0.0.0. Admit it, we know how much you like patching…

The patch we’ll be working with is the following:

Patch 22920724: enterprise manager for oms plugins 13.1.1.0.160331

Before undertaking this patch, you’ll need to log into your weblogic console as the weblogic admin, (you do still remember the URL and the login/password, right? :)) as this will be required as part of the patching process.

Once you’ve verified this information, you’ll just need to download the patch, unzip it and read the README.txt to get an understanding of what you’re patching.

Per the instructions, you’ll need to shut down the OMS (only).

./emctl stop oms

Take the time to ensure your environment is set up properly. The ORACLE_HOME will need to be switched over from the database installation home, (if the OMS and OMR are sharing the same host, the ORACLE_HOME is most likely set incorrectly for the patch requirements.)

As an example, this is my path environment on my test server:

/u01/app/oracle/13c/bin <–Location of my bin directory for my OMS executables.
/u01/app/oracle/13c/OMSPatcher/omspatcher <– location of the OMSPatcher executable.

$ORACLE_HOME should be set to OMS_HOME and set omspatcher to the OMSPATCHER :

export omspatcher=$OMS_HOME/OMSPATCHER/omspatcher
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/13c

If you return to the README.txt, you’ll be there awhile, as the instructions start to offer you poor advice once you get to the following:

$ omspatcher apply -analyze  -property_file <location of property file>

This command will result in a failure on the patch annoy those attempting to apply it.

I’d recommend running the following instead, which is a simplified command and will result in success if you’re set up your environment:

omspatcher apply <path to your patch location>/22920724 -analyze

If this returns with a successful test of your patch, then simply remove the “-analyze” from the command and it will then apply the patch:

omspatcher apply <path to your patch location>/22920724

You’ll be asked a couple of questions, so be ready with the information, including verifying that you can log into your Weblogic console.

Verify that the Weblogic domain URL and username is correct or type in the correct one, enter the weblogic password
Choose to apply the patch by clicking “Y”
Patch should proceed.
The output of the patch will look like the following:

OMSPatcher log file: /u01/app/oracle/13c/cfgtoollogs/omspatcher/22920724/omspatcher_2016-04-29_15-42-56PM_deploy.log

Please enter OMS weblogic admin server URL(t3s://adc00osp.us.oracle.com:7102):>
Please enter OMS weblogic admin server username(weblogic):>
Please enter OMS weblogic admin server password:>

Do you want to proceed? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y

Applying sub-patch "22589347 " to component "oracle.sysman.si.oms.plugin" and version "13.1.1.0.0"...

Applying sub-patch "22823175 " to component "oracle.sysman.emas.oms.plugin" and version "13.1.1.0.0"...

Applying sub-patch "22823156 " to component "oracle.sysman.db.oms.plugin" and version "13.1.1.0.0"...

Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/13c/cfgtoollogs/omspatcher/22920724/omspatcher_2016-04-29_15-42-56PM_deploy.log

OMSPatcher succeeded.

Note the sub-patch information. It’s important to know that this is contained in the log, for it you needed to rollback a system patch, it must be done via each sub-patch using the Identifier listed here.

If you attempted to rollback the system patch, using the system patch identifier, you’d receive an error:

$ 01/app/oracle/13c/OMSPatcher/omspatcher rollback -id 22920724 -analyze <
OMSPatcher Automation Tool
Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

......
"22920724" is a system patch ID. OMSPatcher does not support roll back with system patch ID.

OMSRollbackSession failed: "22920724" is a system patch ID. OMSPatcher does not support roll back with system patch ID.

Once the system patch has completed successfully, you’ll need to add the agent patch and best practice is to use a patch plan and apply it to one agent, make it the gold agent current image and then apply that to all your agents that are subscribed to it. If you need more information on how to use Gold Agent Images, just read up on it in this post.

Patch 22920724: enterprise manager for oms plugins 13.1.1.0.160331

Kellyn

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