Patching Oracle Grid Infrastructure Without Changing the Grid Home Path

This procedure explains how to patch Oracle Grid Infrastructure without changing the Grid home path.

Before You Begin

• Ensure that the gold image containing the Grid home is imported and exists on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server.

• Ensure that the directory you provide in the ­path option is not an existing directory.

• The source Grid home must be a managed home (provisioned by Rapid Home Provisioning). It does not need to be an Oracle Layered File System (OLFS)-compliant home.

• The Grid home must be Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c (12.2.0.1) or later.

Procedure for Patching

• To move a non-OLFS-compliant Grid home to an OLFS Grid home, from the Rapid Home Provisioning Server, run two commands similar to the following:

  $ rhpctl add workingcopy -workingcopy GI_HOME_12201_PSU1 -aupath
    /u01/app/orabase/product/12.2.0.1/aupath -image image_name
    -client client_name -softwareonly

  $ rhpctl move gihome -srcwc GI_HOME_12201 -destwc GI_HOME_12201_PSU1 -agpath
    /u01/app/orabase/product/12.2.0.1/agpath -path
    /u01/app/orabase/product/12.2.0.1/grid

• To move an OLFS-compliant Grid home to a patched version, run two commands similar to the following:

  $ rhpctl add workingcopy -workingcopy gihome12201_psu1_lpm -aupath
    /u01/app/orabase/product/12.2.0.1/aupath -image image_name -client
    client_name -softwareonly

  $ rhpctl move gihome -sourcewc gihome12201_lpm -destwc gihome12201_psu1_lpm