An Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (Oracle FPP) server always has Oracle Grid Infrastructure software installed. It is highly recommended that you also configure Oracle ASM with Oracle Advanced Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) to take advantage of the ability to snapshot and store deltas of gold images.

Unmanaged Homes are software homes, for example, Database Home that was not provisioned by Oracle FPP. This graphic assumes that the Oracle FPP Server has already been provisioned. The Oracle FPP workflow in this case is as follows:

  1. Create a gold image from a software Home that was previously installed with Oracle Universal Installer. Use the rhpctl import command for the first gold image. You may run this command from the Oracle FPP Server or Oracle FPP Client. You can create gold images from either a source home, or from a working copy using the rhpctl add image command.
  2. Add a client to the Oracle FPP Server configuration with rhpctl add client. The client is required to have the OS installed, and cluster ready.
  3. Create a working copy of the image with rhpctl add workingcopy on the server, local file system, on the Oracle FPP Client, or in a NFS mount point. This command creates a software home for the client on the client storage as specified in the command. Creating the home on the server requires that the client is using Oracle ACFS with access to the same storage cluster as the server. This operation can be on an unmanaged or managed target.
  4. Patching a target follows a similar process.

Adopting a structured workflow and leveraging automation tools are essential for successful implementation and maintenance of Oracle FPP processes.