How to Check if a Patch requires Downtime

Solution

1. Download the particular patch file
2. Check the file ..\\etc\config\inventory
3. If the following entry is present
(instance_shutdown) true (/instance_shutdown)

then it requires downtime.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello,
Could you specify do you meam rdbms patch or apps patch

Anonymous said...

OPatch means rdbms patch.

Go to OPatch dorectory and select /etc/config/inventory

Regards,
Ramesh Mani

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Anonymous said...

Hi Mani,

I got good information from ur site, and one question, some patches not having etc folder than how can we justify weather it is an downtime patch or not.

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