Searching for Patches on My Oracle Support

The search functionality allows you to perform flexible and advanced searches. It also offers capabilities like saving a frequently used search, and searching based on existing saved searches.

To search a patch on My Oracle Support, follow these steps:

1. From the Enterprise menu, select Provisioning and Patching, then select Patches & Updates.
2. On the Patches & Updates page, in the Patch Search region, enter the search parameters you want to use and click Search.

   Note:

   If you do not see the Patch Search region, click Customize Page from the top-right corner, and then drag the Patch Search region to the page.

   Use the Saved tab to search any previously saved searches. Use the Recent tab to access any recently performed search.

   Once the patch search is complete the results appear in the Patch Search Results page. On this page you can select a patch and download it either to the local host (desktop) or to the Software Library.

3. To search for patches using EMCLI, you can use the following command examples:

   emcli search_patches -patch_name=<Patch number> 

   emcli search_patches -patch_name=<Patch number> -swlib -script

   For more information on using the search_patches EM CLI verb see: search_patches in Oracle Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface.