Using Mammoth to Install a One-Off Patch

One-off patch bundles provide a fix to specific bugs in one or more releases. You use Mammoth to apply the patch to your cluster.

To install a one-off patch bundle: 

1. Download the patch bundle from the Automated Release Update (ARU) system to a directory such as /tmp on the first node of the Oracle Big Data Cloud Service cluster.

   The file is named BDA-patch-release-patch.zip. The examples in this procedure use the name BDA-patch-4.3.1-123456.zip.

2. Unzip the file. For example:

   # unzip BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.zip
   Archive:  BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.zip
      creating: BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456/
     inflating: BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456/BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.run 
     inflating: BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456/README.txt

3. Change to the patch directory created in Step 2. For example:

   $ cd BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456

4. Extract the contents of the run file. For example:

   $ ./BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.run
   Big Data Appliance one-off patch 123456 for v4.3.0 Self-extraction
    
   Removing existing temporary files
    
   Generating /tmp/BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.tar
   Verifying MD5 sum of /tmp/BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.tar
   /tmp/BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.tar MD5 checksum matches
    
   Extracting /tmp/BDA-patch-4.3.0-123456.tar to /opt/oracle/BDAMammoth/patches/123456
   Removing temporary files
    
   Please "cd /opt/oracle/BDAMammoth" before running "./mammoth -p 123456"

5. Change to the BDAMammoth directory:

   $ cd /opt/oracle/BDAMammoth

6. Install the patch. For example:

   $ ./mammoth -p 123456

   Alternatively, you can use the bdacli command. See Use bdacli to Patch Software and to Display Configuration Information.