Manually Patching Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data Instance on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

This chapter describes how to manually patch Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data instance 19c (19.1.0.0) image by downloading the product as described in Downloading Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data , and then choosing the upgrade paths that suits your environment.

Note:

The below procedure helps you to manually apply additional bug fixes on your existing marketplace place image. In the future if, you decide to upgrade your new marketplace image (as described in Upgrading an Oracle Cloud Marketplace Image (Terraform Version is Same)chapter) then make sure to manually verify all the fixes that you had previously applied on your existing marketplace image. Otherwise, you may miss those fixes by switching to image upgrade procedure.

Upgrading by Overwriting the Existing Installation

To upgrade your existing Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data marketplace image, copy the Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data 19c (19.1.0.0.x) files into the existing 19c (19.1.0.0.x) installation directory. Overwriting the product files is possible because there is neither structural nor package name changes in 19c (19.1.0.0.x).

1. (Source systems) Back up the current Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data installation directory on the source system, and any working directories that you have installed on a shared drive in a cluster (if applicable).
2. (Source system) Stop user activity on objects in the Oracle GoldenGate configuration.
3. Stop any running Extract and Replicat processes.
4. Stop the Manager process.
5. Verify whether all the above processes are stopped by using the command -

   ggsci> info all

   Note:

   Make sure all the process are stopped before proceeding with the upgradation process.
6. Copy the new Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data 19c (19.1.0.0.x) zip to the location /u01/app/ogg/bigdata.
7. Navigate to the path /u01/app/ogg/bigdata using the command -

   cd /u01/app/ogg/bigdata

8. Extract the new Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data 19c (19.1.0.0.x) zip file, which divides the files into several subdirectories.

   Note:

   Please note to replace x with appropriate patch version number in the below commands.

   /u01/app/ogg/bigdata  > unzip OGG_BigData_Linux_x64_19.1.0.0.x.zip
   /u01/app/ogg/bigdata  > tar -vf OGG_BigData_Linux_x64_19.1.0.0.x.tar

9. Verify whether all the binary files got overridden by the command

   /u01/app/ogg/bigdata  > ls -ltr

   .
10. Execute the command ggsci -v to verify the version upgrade.
11. Start the manager and Replicat processes and verify that they are running.

    GGSCI> START MANAGER
    GGSCI> START REPLICAT group_name 
    GGSCI> INFO REPLICAT group_name
    GGSCI> VIEW REPORT group_name