1. Cloud Control Database Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide
  2. Database Maintenance: Updates (Patching) and Upgrades
  3. Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning and Enterprise Manager Integration

20 Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning and Enterprise Manager Integration

Starting with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 Release Update 14 (13.5.0.14), Fleet Maintenance integrates Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) solution. This enables FPP customers to leverage native capabilities of Enterprise Manager automated risk assessment, security patch recommendations, and proactively patch databases and Grid Infrastructure using Enterprise Manager Fleet Maintenance smart User Interface, and automation via REST APIs and EMCLI.

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) enables mass deployment and maintenance of standard operating environments for databases, clusters, and user-defined software types. With Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning, you can also install clusters and provision, patch, scale, and upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2), or later.

A Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack license is required in order to use these options.

Terminology

Figure 20-1 FPP Workflow

Workflow depicting Administrator and Operator tasks to deploy FFP enabled images in Enterprise Manager
  • Gold Image: Are Enterprise Manager provisioned base software version plus the additional patches. Gold is the qualifier for the ideal level for a software configuration.
  • Images: Are Enterprise Manager provisioned software sets of specific version, for a particular database or Grid Infrastructure.
  • Image Series: Are FPP provisioned sets base software version plus the additional patches. Gold is the qualifier for the ideal level for a software configuration.
  • Versions: Are Enterprise Manager provisioned software sets of specific version within an image.

Enterprise Manager Fleet Maintenance manages Gold Images using Images and Versions, while FPP manages Gold Images using Image Series and Images. Within Enterprise Manager, FPP Image Series will appear as an Image, and a FPP Images will appear as a Version.

To use an existing image series for patching and upgrading your Grid Infrastructure or Oracle Databases, you will need to opt-in that image series into Enterprise Manager.