Applying Patches After an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation or Upgrade

You can apply patches to Oracle Grid Infrastructure deployment in rolling mode after a successful or a failed upgrade. This mode is similar to the "Rolling Upgrade" mode in terms of the Oracle ASM operations allowed in this quiesce state.

  1. Download patches you want to apply from My Oracle Support:
  2. Review the patch documentation for the patch you want to apply, and complete all required steps before starting the patch upgrade.
  3. Follow the instructions in the patch documentation to apply the patch on the first node.
    # Grid_home/OPatch/opatchauto apply /tmp/patch_ID
    Wait for the patching to finish on the first node before patching other cluster nodes.

    Note:

    The use of OPatch and OPatchAuto for out-of-place patching continues to be deprecated. 

    For patching in Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle recommends that you use out-of-place patching using Gold images to apply quarterly release updates (RUs). This deprecation does not affect in-place patching. If you want to perform in-place patching, then OPatch and OPatchAuto continue to be available for this purpose. The Oracle AI Database 26ai Free release is not supported for patching with RUs.

  4. Apply the patch on all other cluster nodes, one at a time.
    # Grid_home/OPatch/opatchauto apply patch_directory_location/patch_ID

    Note:

    You can also use Oracle FPP Local Mode to automate the patching process.

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Parent topic: Applying Patches to Oracle Grid Infrastructure