Use Enterprise Manager to apply Oracle Management Agent patches and patchsets that are available at the OracleMetaLink Web site.
To apply a Management Agent patch, run the Enterprise Manager Patching wizard specifying the patch and the host Agents to which you want to apply the patch. Enterprise Manager downloads the patch from the OracleMetaLink Web site, caching it in the Management Repository patch cache. It then applies the patch at each designated host. Enterprise Manager can apply a Management Agent patch on any host that has a Management Agent is running.
Important: You must specify your OracleMetaLink credentials before you can use the Patching wizard. See Specifying Patching Credentials for more information.
Use one of the following methods to start the process of applying a Management Agent patch using the Enterprise Manager Patching wizard:
On the Deployments page, click Patch. The Patching wizard is launched. Enter the information on the Select Patch page about the Management Agent patch or patches you require. If you know the Management Agent patch number that you want, you can locate that patch at OracleMetaLink by searching for it, by that Patch number. Otherwise, to locate a Management Agent patch at OracleMetaLink, specify Oracle System Management Products as the Product Family and Intelligent Agent as the Product, and then enter other search criteria related to the patch that you require.
On the Home Page or Maintenance Page for an Oracle target that supports patching, click Patch. With this approach, the Patch wizard is launched, and displays patch selection criteria for that version of the Oracle product. This method works for Management Agents that are of release 10.1 and higher.
After the Patch wizard launches, it leads you step-by-step through the patching process. You can click Help at any step in the process to learn more about that step.
Note that when you select an Oracle Management Agent patch (which has a target type of Agent) on the Stage or Apply page of the Patching wizard, the Apply Patch option is enabled by default. Enterprise Manager can automatically apply Management Agent patches on the host or hosts you select.
In some cases, you may want to manually add a Management Agent patch to the Enterprise Manager patch cache. For example, a Management Agent patch may have been previously downloaded from OracleMetaLink without using Enterprise Manager, but now you want to use Enterprise Manager to apply that patch to various hosts. Or, you want to apply the patch on one or more hosts, but you know you will not have access to OracleMetaLink when you are ready to apply the patch (because you will be performing the patching operation at a site that does not have Internet access). In either of these situations, you must first upload the Management Agent patch to the patch cache before Enterprise Manager can be used to apply the patch. To upload the patch to the patch cache, follow these steps:
On the Deployments page, click View Patch Cache.
On the Patch Cache page, click Upload Patch File.
On the Add Patch File to Patch Cache page, enter the name of the Management Agent patch file in the Patch File field.
The following table lists the fields and their description with appropriate examples.
| Page Element | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Patch Number | This is the Patch number | 2808515 |
| Patch Type | Patch or PatchSet, whichever is applicable | Patch |
| Description | Description of the patch, for example, the bugs fixed by the patch | ORAFETCH FAILS WITH ORA-00235 |
| Product Family | Oracle System Management Products | Oracle System Management Products |
| Product | Intelligent Agent | Intelligent Agent |
| Release | The four digit release number | 4.0.0.0 |
| Platform | The platform of the host machine | Sun Solaris OS (SPARC) |
After entering the information, click Upload.
After the Management Agent patch has been uploaded, you can apply it using the Enterprise Manager Patch wizard. To do this, select the patch on the Patch Cache page and then click Patch.
For more information about manually adding other types of patches to the patch cache, see Manually Adding a Patch to the Patch Cache.
Related Topics
Accessing the Deployments Page
Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap
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