Before you begin: Meeting the Prerequisites

This section describes how you can set up the infrastructure for patching. Meet these prerequisites before you start patching.

This section covers the following:

• Meeting Basic Infrastructure Requirements for Patching
• User Roles and Privileges for Fleet Maintenance
• Preferred Credential Support for Fleet Maintenance
• Searching for Patches on My Oracle Support
• Search and View Patches in Oracle Software Library
• Downloading Patch Recommendations and Patches
• Security Models for running Root scripts
• Prerequisites for performing Fleet Maintenance on Windows