During February Oracle release the Oracle Appliance Kit 12.2.1.2.0 for ODA.
There are two different patches available:
- Patch 27141226 for versions X6-2S, X6-2M, X6-2L, X7-2S, X7-2M, X7-2HA
- Patch 27119652 for versions V1, X3-2, X4-2, X5-2, X6-2 HA
In this blog post I will go through the patch of an ODA version X6-2S.
Updated software in this patch
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There is no spectre or meltdown patch in this the new kernel! Therefore we do not have to take care about I/O problems (more on this in a future blog post).
Whats new in the dcs agent
There are some new odacli commands:
- Backup and restore databases via odacli
- Manage TDE Keys on an ODA
- Set the PDB Name for a new Container database
- And some further modifications and enhancements of the current commands
Update the ODA
Provide the required update files
Download the 3 required zipfiles mentioned in the famous support note 888888.1.
odacli update-repository -f /u01/oda-sm-12.2.1.2.0-180103.2-server1of3.zip,/u01/p27141226_122120_Linux-x86-64_2of3.zip,/u01/p27141226_122120_Linux-x86-64_3of3.zip
Now it is possible to add all three files in one command. The repository update is taking around 1 minute.
Update the dcs agent
With the following command you can update the dcs agent.
/opt/oracle/dcs/bin/odacli update-dcsagent -v 12.2.1.2.0 ; sleep 120
The update of the dcs agent is taking some few minutes.
Update the server
Now you are ready for upgrading the server.
Please be aware if you have installed further rpm packages the update may fail. If this is the case you will find the information for this in the logfile
/var/log/messages/var/log/yum.log
To start the upgrade issue the following command:
odacli update-server -v 12.2.1.2.0
The output of the job description after the upgrade will look similar to the following output.
The upgrade will take between 30 minutes and 60 minutes . After the upgrade a restart of the server should automatically happen.
In a further blog post I will show the upgrade of individual databases and show at least one pitfall.
