I already covered out-of-place patching from the web UI, but patching tasks should be automated, and clicking through the same screens for every deployment can get repetitive. Let’s do the exact same out-of-place patch of a GoldenGate Microservices Architecture deployment, this time entirely with the REST API. Every step below shows two ways to make the same call: Installing the…
During a recent maintenance activity, I patched an Oracle Forms & Reports 14.1.2 environment on Linux. The patching itself completed successfully, but immediately after the restart, Oracle Reports started failing. At first, the issue looked like a Java or JDK problem. After a full investigation, it turned out to be different. This blog explains the full story from beginning to…
When patching GoldenGate Classic Architecture, you might encounter an OGG-08048 error when restarting your extracts and replicats. What should you do exactly, and how do you avoid this error in the future ? In fact, this error is easy to reproduce, which also makes it easy to avoid. Usually, it happens when following the official documentation instructions for patching. They…
cleanup Oracle-Home(s) after applying the quarterly Release Updates Do you suffer from the fact that release updates take longer each time?Are you afraid that your hard disk will fill up because the Oracle-Home is getting bigger and bigger?Here is the how-to for cleaning up your environment. A) cleanup – option 1 for Out-Of-Place patching According to Oracle’s recommendations, you did…
Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is normally done after deploying your ODAs, and this number of cores could eventually be increased if you need more and if…
Introduction Patch 19.15 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings April’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest database 21.6 but only for DB Systems (21c being an innovation release). As you may know, new ODA X9-2 is here with 3…
Introduction Patch 19.14 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings January’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest 21.5 but only for DB Systems (21c being an innovation release). Don’t expect too many new features for this release (actually, I don’t…
Introduction While patching ODAs from 19.10 to 19.13, the update-dbhome could fail if some databases inside this dbhome are stopped or only mounted. Job would then stop with a DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGH-1153 : RHPHelper call to get runing nodes failed for DB: “ARITSTDB”. How to solve this problem? Environment description My environment is composed of 3 X8-2M ODAs, 2…
Introduction 4 months after the 19.9, here comes the 19.10 version of the Oracle Database Appliance patch. Let’s have a look at what’s new. Will my ODA supports this 19.10 patch? The 19.10 release will be the same for all ODAs, as usual. The oldest ODA compatible with this release is the X5-2. Don’t expect to install this version on…
