About the Patching Utility Tool

Oracle WebLogic Server for OCI provides the patching utility tool to download the patches for the WebLogic Server instances. This utility can be used if you do not have access to the support portal to download the required patches.

Note:

• The patching utility tool is available only for Oracle WebLogic Server for OCI instances provisioned after release 20.4.3 (December 23, 2020).
• For instances provisioned prior to release 20.4.3 (before December 23, 2020), download the WebLogic Server patches by using the My Oracle Support website.
• For UCM only license users, who does not have access to My Oracle Support, open a Support Ticket to get the unique link to download the quarterly Patch Set Updates (PSUs).

From release 21.3.3 onwards, you can use the patching utility tool to download patches for custom images that are created from Oracle WebLogic Server for OCI instance.

For custom images created from existing instances with older version of patching tool, the patching utility does not work. So, before you create custom images from existing instances, Oracle recommends you to upgrade the patching utility to the latest version using the patch-utils upgrade command. With the patching tool upgrade, the images use the latest version of patching utility tool with two keys for decryption.

For existing instances created from the Marketplace, you need not upgrade the patching tool. You can use the older version of the patching tool to download the patches.

You can use this patching tool utility on the WebLogic Server compute instance and the bastion instance.