Manage Exadata Infrastructure Maintenance

Oracle schedules and performs all patching and other maintenance operations on all the infrastructure resources of an Autonomous Database. At the same time, it also provides you with various options to customize, view, and reschedule maintenance events for the different infrastructure resources, including Exadata Infrastructure resources.

View and Manage Scheduled Maintenance of an Exadata Infrastructure Resource

You view and manage scheduled maintenance of an Exadata Infrastructure resource from its Details page.

Required IAM Policies

use cloud-exadata-infrastructures

Procedure

  1. Go to the Details page of the Exadata Infrastructure resource whose maintenance schedule you want to change.

    For instructions, see View Details of an Exadata Infrastructure Resource.

  2. Click Maintenance.

    The Exadata Infrastructure Maintenance page lists any upcoming planned maintenance.

    For more information about the details displayed in the Exadata Infrastructure Maintenance page, see Scheduled Maintenance Details.

  3. For each maintenance event listed in the Exadata Infrastructure Maintenance page, you can perform the management operations listed in Management Operations on a Scheduled Maintenance, provided that the event is not already in progress.

    When you reschedule an Exadata Infrastructure maintenance event that is already scheduled, Oracle may place it in a queue if its Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster or Autonomous Container Databases are:
    • Already undergoing a maintenance update, or
    • Scheduled for a maintenance activity simultaneously as the Exadata Infrastructure.
    For more information about automatic queuing of maintenance events, see Automatic Queuing of Maintenance Events.

Change the Maintenance Schedule of an Exadata Infrastructure Resource

You view the details of an Exadata Infrastructure resource by going to its Details page.

Required IAM Policies

use cloud-exadata-infrastructures

Procedure

To change the maintenance schedule of an Exadata Infrastructure:

  1. Go to the Details page of the Exadata Infrastructure resource whose maintenance schedule you want to change.

    For instructions, see View Details of an Exadata Infrastructure Resource.

  2. You can change the existing maintenance schedule of the Exadata Infrastructure resource.
    Under Actions, click Edit maintenance preferences.

    Note:

    You have another way to edit maintenance schedule. On Oracle Public Cloud, click Maintenance and from the Maintenance page, click Edit maintenance run. On Exadata Cloud@Customer, click Maintenance scheduling plan and from the Maintenance Scheduling Plan page, click Edit Maintenance Preferences.
  3. Change the settings for the Maintenance method and Maintenance schedule as desired.
    • Configure Maintenance schedule: Choose one of the following options.
      • Select No preference to permit Oracle to schedule maintenance as needed. In Exadata Cloud@Customer this choice would be Oracle managed schedule.
      • Select Specify a schedule to restrict when Oracle can schedule maintenance. You can choose your preferred month, week, weekday, start time, and lead time for infrastructure maintenance. In Exadata Cloud@Customer this choice would be Customer managed schedule .

      Tip:

      For guidance on choosing a custom schedule, see Settings in Maintenance Schedule that are Customizable.
    • Configure maintenance method: By default, Exadata Infrastructure is updated in a rolling fashion, one server at a time. You can select non-rolling maintenance to update database and storage servers in parallel. However, non-rolling maintenance incurs a full system downtime.
  4. When finished, save your changes.

View Past Maintenance of an Exadata Infrastructure Resource

You view past maintenance of an Exadata Infrastructure resource from its Details page.

Required IAM Policies

inspect cloud-exadata-infrastructures

Procedure

  1. Go to the Details page of the Exadata Infrastructure resource whose maintenance schedule you want to change.

    For instructions, see View Details of an Exadata Infrastructure Resource.

  2. Click Maintenance History to see a list of past maintenance.