About Patch Recommendations

Patch recommendations are proactive notifications warning of potential system issues and recommendations that help you improve system performance and avert outages.

The Patch Recommendations region provides a portal for all recommended patches. The Recommended Patches region appears by default on the Patch & Updates page. You can edit this region to filter its contents.

From the bar graph, you can drill down to a list of recommended patches, view patch details, and download patches. A bar graph summarizes the number of issues found (one issue per recommendation for one target). These are a collection of patches offered within MOS that can be applied as a group to one or more targets. To keep the Patch Recommendation section updated with the latest patches for your environment, make sure Config Collection is enabled.

Enterprise Manager supports patch recommendations for the following target types:

• Oracle Database
• Oracle Real Applications Clusters
• Oracle Real Applications Clusters with Clusterware
• Oracle Data Guard

To view details of a recommended patch, 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 Recommendations region, click on the bar graph pertaining to the desired patches.

   Note:

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

   Alternatively, click All Recommendations to display all recommendations in the Patch Recommendation page. The Patch Recommendations page also displays the recommended Patch Set Updates and Composite Patch Updates currently available for the targets.

3. On the Patch Recommendations page, select a recommended patch to view the context menu appears. From the context menu, click Full Screen.