Manual Management Agent Patching
Manual patching is a patching mechanism that requires you to follow step-by-step instructions to patch a Management Agent manually. This mechanism of patching requires you to ensure certain prerequisites, manually validate the patch for applicability and conflicts, and can be used to patch only a single Management Agent at a time.
Note:
Oracle recommends that you use the automated patching mechanism as it not only saves time and effort in mass-deploying patches, but also reduces human intervention, thereby minimizing the errors involved during the patching process.
To patch a Management Agent target manually, perform the following steps: