21 Simulating Patching Deployment Procedures to Check Prerequisites

Enterprise Manager Grid Control offers patching Deployment Procedures that help you patch targets such as Oracle Database, Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, and Oracle Clusterware. However, before you run the actual patching Deployment Procedures, Oracle strongly recommends you to simulate the Deployment Procedures so that you check the prerequisites and ensure that you meet all the necessary requirements for patching, and also resolve all operational conflicts and issues beforehand.

Table 21-1 lists the patching Deployment Procedures that support the simulation mode, and describes how you must run them in that mode.

Table 21-1 Simulating Patching Deployment Procedures for Checking Prerequisites

Deployment Procedure Name	Support or Not Supported	Instructions to Simulate
Patch Oracle Database	Yes	Run the Deployment Procedure as described in Chapter 22, "Patching Oracle Database", but on the Review page (final page of the wizard), click Analyze.
Patch Oracle RAC Database - Rolling	Yes	Run the Deployment Procedure as described in Chapter 23, "Patching Oracle RAC", but on the Review page (final page of the wizard), click Analyze.
Patch Oracle RAC Database - All Nodes	Yes	Run the Deployment Procedure as described in Chapter 23, "Patching Oracle RAC", but on the Review page (final page of the wizard), click Analyze.
Patch Oracle Clusterware - Rolling	Yes	Run the Deployment Procedure as described in Chapter 24, "Patching Oracle Clusterware", but on the Review page (final page of the wizard), click Analyze.
Patch Oracle Clusterware - All Nodes	Yes	Run the Deployment Procedure as described in Chapter 24, "Patching Oracle Clusterware", but on the Review page (final page of the wizard), click Analyze.
Patch Standalone Oracle ASM	Yes	Run the Deployment Procedure as described in Chapter 25, "Patching Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)", but on the Review page (final page of the wizard), click Analyze.
Patch Application Server	No
Patch Linux Hosts	No
Patch Solaris Hosts	No
Patch Windows Hosts	No