Understanding AutoUpgrade Utility Configuration Files Parameters and Options

AutoUpgrade configuration files (also referred to as config files) contain all the information required to perform Oracle Database upgrades and software maintenance operations.

Before you can use an AutoUpgrade processing mode, you must create an AutoUpgrade configuration file for the databases that you want to upgrade.

AutoUpgrade configuration files (config files) contain locally modifiable global, local, and global configuration parameters. Global parameters by default apply to all databases addressed by the configuration file. Locally modifiable global parameters apply to all databases. However. when specified for a specific database, local configuration parameters override locally modifiable global parameters.

There are three classes of parameters:

  • Common config parameters apply both to AutoUpgrade upgrades and AutoUpgrade command-line -patch operations.
  • Upgrade config parameters apply to AutoUpgrade upgrades. They cannot be used with command-line -patch operations.
  • Patch config parameters apply to AutoUpgrade software maintenance operations using the command-line -patch option. They cannot be used with AutoUpgrade upgrades.