racli alter appliance

Runs out-of-place patching steps that do not require the appliance to be offline. This includes the creation and installation of new oracle and grid home directories.

Syntax

racli alter appliance --online_updates --gold_images_path=DIRECTORY
 [--redo_oracle_home] [--redo_grid_home]

Options

--online_updates

Indicates that the updates do not require the appliance to be offline.

--gold_images_path

Directory where the database and grid gold images are staged.

--redo_oracle_home

Forces the creation of new Oracle home using the gold image of the Recovery Appliance version.

--redo_grid_home

Forces the creation of new Grid home using the gold image of the Recovery Appl iance version.

This command allows the creation and installation of the out-of-place patch homes before downtime window begins. This command could be performed as part of an advance precheck to minimize the downtime required within the outage window.

racli run preinstall
racli alter appliance
racli update appliance