Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

Part I Overview and Setup Details

1 Overview of Lifecycle Management Solutions

2 Things to Know

3 Infrastructure Requirements

Part II Database Provisioning

4 Simulating Database Provisioning Deployment Procedures to Check Prerequisites

5 Provisioning Oracle Database

6 Provisioning Oracle Grid Infrastructure for Standalone Servers

7 Provisioning Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC for Clustered Environments

8 Extending Oracle Real Application Clusters

9 Deleting or Scaling Down Oracle Real Application Clusters

10 Provisioning Oracle Database Replay Client

Part III Provisioning Linux Operating System

11 Provisioning Linux Operating System

Part IV Provisioning Virtualization Systems

12 Provisioning Virtualization Systems

Part V Middleware Provisioning

13 Provisioning Oracle Fusion Middleware

14 Provisioning SOA Artifacts and Composites

15 Provisioning Coherence Nodes and Clusters

16 Provisioning Oracle Service Bus Resources

17 Provisioning Oracle BPEL Processes

18 Provisioning Oracle Application Server

Part VI Patching

19 Getting Started with Patching

20 Patching Using My Oracle Support

21 Simulating Patching Deployment Procedures to Check Prerequisites

22 Patching Oracle Database

23 Patching Oracle RAC

24 Patching Oracle Clusterware

25 Patching Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

26 Patching Primary and Standby Databases Configured with Oracle Data Guard

27 Patching Oracle Application Server

28 Patching Linux Hosts

29 Patching Solaris Hosts

30 Patching Microsoft Windows Hosts

Part VII Customization

31 Customizing Deployment Procedures

Part VIII Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (EMCLI)

32 Using EMCLI to Run Deployment Procedures

Part IX Additional Information

A Troubleshooting Issues

B Using emctl partool Utility

C Using Oracle Software Library

D Creating Templates for Oracle Database

E Out-Of-Box RuntimeData Templates

F Sample Property Files for the Out-of-Box RuntimeData Templates

G PXE Booting and Kickstart Technology

H About Patching Automation Reports

I Converting Standalone Oracle Management Agent to Cluster Agent

J Manually Downloading Prerequisites from My Oracle Support

K Staging Gold Image to Software Library or Staging Location

L Downloading Installation Binaries and Uploading to Software Library or Staging Location

M Reviewing Log Files

Index