About the Patch Management Solution

Middleware patch management solution offers:

• Integrated patching workflow with My Oracle Support (MOS), therefore, you see recommendations, search patches, and roll out patches all using the same user interface.

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

• Complete, end-to-end orchestration of patching workflow using Patch Plans, including analysis of the patch conflicts, therefore, there is minimal manual effort required. For more information on patch plans, see Overview of Patch Plans.
• Clear division of responsibilities between designers and operators. Designers can focus on creating patch plans, testing them on a test system, and saving them as patch templates. Operators can focus on creating patch plans out of the template for rolling out the patches on a production system.
• Easy review of patches for applicability in your environment, validation of patch plans, and automatic receipt of patches to resolve validation issues.
• Saving successfully analyzed or deployable patch plans as patch templates, which contain a predetermined set of patches and deployment options saved from the source patch plan.

Figure 14-1 Accessing the Patches & Updates Screen