1. Middleware Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide
  2. Patching Software Deployments
  3. Patch Management Overview
  4. Overview of Supported Patching Modes
  5. Overview of Patching in Online and Offline Mode

Overview of Patching in Online and Offline Mode

You have the flexibility to choose between Online and Offline patching.

Online Mode

Online mode is useful when Enterprise Manager can connect to My Oracle Support (MOS) using an Internet connection. Using this mode, search and download patches patches from MOS and create gold images to include these patches.. In addition, you can access community information, knowledge articles, service requests, and so on, and also automatically resolve patch conflicts with a merge patch directly from MOS.

Note that Cloud Control does not upload any data to MOS. It only uses MOS to download the latest updates.

Offline Mode

Offline mode is used when Enterprise Manager cannot connect to My Oracle Support. In this mode, you can search patches that were manually uploaded to the Software Library. In offline mode, you cannot do the following:

  • Search and download patches from My Oracle Support.
  • View additional information about the patch.
  • Access community information, knowledge articles, service requests.
  • View the Related Activity region.

Note:

By default, the patching mode is set to online. If you want to switch to offline, go to Setup, select Provisioning and Patching, and then select Offline Patching.