10 Patching Oracle Grid Infrastructure

You can download and install Oracle Grid Infrastructure patches either as a complete gold image with pre-applied RUs or as individual software patches from My Oracle Support.

• About Individual Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patches
  Download Oracle ASM individual (one-off) patch and apply it to Oracle Grid Infrastructure using the setup.exe -applyOneOffs command.
• About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Patch Levels
  Review this topic to understand how to apply patches for Oracle ASM and Oracle Clusterware.
• About Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching
  Use the zero-downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure patching method to keep your Oracle RAC database instances running and client connections active during patching.
• Applying Patches to Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  Review these scenarios for applying patches to Oracle Grid Infrastructure in different stages of installation or upgrade.
• Patching and Switching Oracle Grid Infrastructure Homes
  Use switchGridHome command to switch from the current Oracle Grid Infrastructure home to the patched Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.
• Changing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Base Path
  After installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM configured for a cluster), you can change the Grid base path, if required.